Crackdown

You can’t understand Canada’s overdose crisis without knowing the truth about this country – and that’s the story of colonization: a centuries-long effort to steal land and erase Indigenous peoples. Share Post reddit Email

We haven’t had a big win in a while. And 2019 feels a bit like a depressing blur. But it was also a year where we fought back. In the last Crackdown episode of the year, we tell four stories about surviving the drug war. Share Post reddit Email

In 2018, Scotland had a higher rate of drug-related deaths than Canada or the U.S. — even though fentanyl hasn’t taken over the U.K.’s drug supply. In Episode 10, CRACKDOWN crosses the Atlantic to try and figure out what’s going on. Share Post reddit Email

Crackdown investigates the relationship between the BC government and Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals. Many people on methadone complain that Methadose® “doesn’t have legs.” Why hasn’t the government provided them with a more effective option? Share Post reddit Email

We don’t have a full documentary this month – for a pretty good reason. Share Post reddit Email

Men are dying at a higher rate than women during the opioid crisis, which means women sometimes get left out of the conversation. On Episode 8 of Crackdown, we go to SisterSpace, North America’s first women-only safe consumption site. Share Post reddit Email

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. Share Post reddit Email

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 housing and overdose crises are intertwined, and what happens when tenants fight back. Share Post reddit Email

This month Crackdown is exploring the pernicious connections between North America’s overdose crisis and the housing crisis. Share Post reddit Email

Garth goes to Portugal to figure out whether the country has found a solution to North America’s overdose crisis. Share Post reddit Email

Someone is to blame. This is not just some force of nature. Share Post reddit Email

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

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. Share Post reddit Email

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. Share Post reddit Email

Episode 1 of Crackdown launches January 30. Share Post reddit Email