This week, I’ve been thinking about Undoing Drugs: How Harm Reduction is Changing the Future of Drugs and Addiction by Maia Szalavitz, published by Hachette Go in 2021. It’s a history of the harm reduction movement. The author is herself a former injection drug user and she’s been covering harm reduction and related issues as …
Jordan Westfall is co-founder and president of the Canadian Association for Safe Supply (CASS), an organization that aims to reduce the immense harms of the overdose crisis by pushing for an increase in people’s access to a drug supply that is legal, regulated, and safe. Scott Neigh interviews him about the crisis and about the …
Garth Mullins is an activist and organizer who has been part of many different movements, as well as a freelance journalist and an award-winning broadcaster. He has been a drug user for most of his adult life – primarily heroin in his younger years and methadone today – and he is currently a drug user …
A big thank-you to Garth Mullins of Crackdown for the interview just now for Talking Radical Radio, about the drug war in Canada, grassroots organizing against it, and his new podcast covering it. Listen for the episode in a few weeks! (And if you haven’t listened to Crackdown yet, you really should — it is …