The 5 Best Crackdown Podcast Episodes
1) Episode 1: War Correspondents
Drug 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 sav...Show More
2) Episode 2: Change Intolerance
https://crackdownpod.com/podcast/episode-2-change-intolerance/ EPISODE 2: CHANGE INTOLERANCE British Columbia switched nearly 15,000 methadone patients to a new formulation called Methadose in 2014....Show More
3) Episode 14: Emergency Measures
Governments are taking drastic measures to try to slow down the spread of #COVID-19 - declaring emergencies, shutting down businesses and sealing borders. But what about drug users? We have been faci...Show More
4) Episode 7: Stand Down
The Vancouver Police say they’re for harm reduction, but everyone we talk to in the Downtown Eastside says otherwise. On Episode 7 of Crackdown, Garth asks the cops to stand down. https://www.patreon...Show More
5) Episode 6: Room 821
https://www.patreon.com/posts/28122736 What happens when your options are being kicked out on the street or living in a room filled with mould, trash and rats? Episode 6 of Crackdown looks at how the ...Show More
6) Episode 55: The Man in the High Castle
With fascism on the rise around the world, we explore the relationship between Canada’s housing and policing policies and the risk of far right authoritarianism at home.
7) Episode 54: Get Sober or Get Dead
Alberta is the involuntary treatment capital of Canada. Since 2006, the province has encouraged parents to waive their children’s rights and force them into detox as part of the Protection of Children...Show More
8) Episode 53: Goodbye Trey
We lost another soldier from the front lines. Trey Helten, longtime manager of the Overdose Prevention Society and all around harm reduction hero on the Downtown Eastside has died at 42. Trey saved hu...Show More
9) Episode 53: Goodbye Ashtrey
We lost another soldier from the front lines. Trey Helten, longtime manager of the Overdose Prevention Society and all around harm reduction hero on the Downtown Eastside, has died at 42. Trey saved h...Show More
10) Episode 52: We Will Delete All This
Garth’s new book, Crackdown: Surviving and Resisting the War On Drugs, has just been published by Penguin Random House and is now available for purchase online. In Episode 52 of Crackdown, Garth read...Show More