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.
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Episode 6: Room 821
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.
Bonus: The Palace
This month Crackdown is exploring the pernicious connections between North America’s overdose crisis and the housing crisis.
Episode 5: The Portugal Paradox
Garth goes to Portugal to figure out whether the country has found a solution to North America’s overdose crisis.
Episode 4: Blame
Someone is to blame. This is not just some force of nature.
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.
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.
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.
Trailer
Episode 1 of Crackdown launches January 30.