Crackdown

Crackdown Productions•crackdownpod.blubrry.net

The 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 3: Unsanctioned

Across North America governments are opposing supervised injection sites. In Crackdown’s third episode, we tell you how to open one anyway.

Mar 30, 2019

Episode 2: Change Intolerance

British 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.

Feb 27, 2019•51 min

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 save us. So we gotta save ourselves.

Jan 30, 2019•28 min

Trailer

Episode 1 of Crackdown launches January 30.

Jan 24, 2019•3 min

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