Crackdown
56 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★★ - 216 ratingsThe drug war, covered by drug users as war correspondents. Crackdown is a monthly podcast about drugs, drug policy and the drug war led by drug user activists and supported by research. Each episode will tell the story of a community fighting for their lives. It’s also about solutions, justice for those we have lost, and saving lives.
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Episodes
Episode 5: The Portugal Paradox
May 29, 2019 22:44 - 3 BytesGarth goes to Portugal to figure out whether the country has found a solution to North America’s overdose crisis.
Episode 4: Blame
April 25, 2019 01:02 - 3 BytesSomeone is to blame. This is not just some force of nature.
Episode 3: Unsanctioned
March 30, 2019 20:34 - 3 BytesAcross North America governments are opposing supervised injection sites. In Crackdown’s third episode, we tell you how to open one anyway.
Episode 2: Change Intolerance
February 27, 2019 21:32 - 51 minutes - 59.3 MBBritish Columbia switched nearly 15,000 methadone patients to a new formulation called Methadose in 2014. Garth Mullins, Laura Shaver, and their colleagues at BCAPOM investigate what happened next.
Episode 1: War Correspondents
January 30, 2019 03:15 - 27 minutes - 38.6 MBDrug users are the experts. We’ve survived. We know policy better than policy-makers. We know law better than lawmakers. We know pharmaceuticals better than pharmacists. We know nobody’s coming to save us. So we gotta save ourselves.