August 10, 2020
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#272 The Best New(ish) Podcast In Canada Is About The Opioid Crisis
Crackdown covers the war on drugs from the trenches, and these war correspondents are drug users. 
Jesse Brown
Host & Publisher
Tiffany Lam
Producer
Andréa Schmidt
Managing Editor, Podcasts

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Host Garth Mullins joins Jesse to talk about how after watching the media get so much wrong about the opioid crisis—if they covered it at all—he and other drug user activists got together to start a monthly podcast based on their stories, their reporting, and scientific research.

This episode is brought to you by Willful and Hover.

It was originally published on April 8, 2019.

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