The drug war,
covered by drug users.

Drug decriminalization is coming to British Columbia. And that’s a big step forward.

A spectre is haunting BC’s overdose crisis — the ghost of Riverview Hospital.

Garth recently learned that his great grandmother, Rosa Mullins, spent more than 26 years locked in Riverview. Garth and his father Gary head to Riverview to find Rosa. Garth digs deep into her medical records and doctors notes and Crackdown even manages to get inside of the old hospital itself.

Last month, Crackdown Editorial Board member Greg Fresz passed away. As usual, we held a memorial for our comrade at VANDU. Sadly, we do this a lot.

But for the revolutionary, death is not the end.

Can Martin and Laura's fairy tale love story survive benzodope – the next lethal era of the drug war?

Over the past four years, British Columbia has seen an uptick in strange and dangerous overdoses: people passed out for hours, not responding to narcan, sleep-walking, having their memories wiped, getting robbed and assaulted. And deaths have spiked. Again.

In spite of a massive spike in overdose death, BC’s government still refuses to offer a genuinely safe supply of drugs. Eris Nyx and Jeremy Kalicum tell the story of how the Drug User Liberation Front has stepped up to do what the policy makers refuse to do themselves: offer people a safe version of the drugs they already use.

The Chief Coroner says 2,224 people died of toxic drug overdose in BC in 2021. Minister of Mental Health and Addictions Sheila Malcolmson and Minister of Health Adrian Dix must resign.

2021 was a year of very ominous weather reports. What would it be like to try to build a life through the chaos? This is Rainbow’s story.

Can Crackdown’s editorial board member Reija Jean use Suboxone to kick dope? Who will win the battle for her opioid receptors?

On episode 26 of Crackdown, we look at how crystal meth helps people keep up with an unrelenting world.