Garth Mullins
@garthmullins.bsky.social
Host @Crackdownpod.bsky.social VANDU veteran. Drugstore cowboy. National bestselling author. Award-winning journalist. Policy analyst. Shop steward. Blind. Be safe-Keep 6
Speaking as one of many “heroes at the methadone clinics”, the whole waiting room cringes when that Kid Rock song comes on.
February 10, 2026 at 10:26 PM
Speaking as one of many “heroes at the methadone clinics”, the whole waiting room cringes when that Kid Rock song comes on.
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Just listened to latest episode of @garthmullins.bsky.social’s @crackdownpod.bsky.social
Hard to listen to, but recommended 👇
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Hard to listen to, but recommended 👇
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Episode 56: Extraordinary Circumstances
Podcast Episode · Crackdown · 2026-01-30 · 53m
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February 4, 2026 at 4:48 AM
Just listened to latest episode of @garthmullins.bsky.social’s @crackdownpod.bsky.social
Hard to listen to, but recommended 👇
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Hard to listen to, but recommended 👇
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Thanks. Im in great company
February 2, 2026 at 4:38 AM
Thanks. Im in great company
🗳️To vote for Avi Lewis for leader of the federal NDP, you need to be a member. I voted for the NDP for decades. I felt frustrated by the mushy middle direction it was going. But I signed up so I could vote. Membership deadline is January 28 - this Wednesday: act.lewisforleader.ca/become-an-nd...
Join the NDP to Vote for Avi
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January 27, 2026 at 2:17 AM
🗳️To vote for Avi Lewis for leader of the federal NDP, you need to be a member. I voted for the NDP for decades. I felt frustrated by the mushy middle direction it was going. But I signed up so I could vote. Membership deadline is January 28 - this Wednesday: act.lewisforleader.ca/become-an-nd...
I endorse @avilewis.ca for leader of the @ndp.ca because we need leaders who are willing to take the NDP back to its working class, socialist roots-who & are willing to take money and power away from the people who are hoarding both while the rest of us bury our friends.
January 27, 2026 at 2:11 AM
I endorse @avilewis.ca for leader of the @ndp.ca because we need leaders who are willing to take the NDP back to its working class, socialist roots-who & are willing to take money and power away from the people who are hoarding both while the rest of us bury our friends.
Good suggestion. He's already heard Sabbath.
December 28, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Good suggestion. He's already heard Sabbath.
Listening to David Bowie narrate Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf with my baby. He's into it. Hunky Dory next, I reckon. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vr4...
Prokofiev : Peter And The Wolf, Op. 67 - David Bowie, narration; Ormandy, Philadelphia Orchestra
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December 28, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Listening to David Bowie narrate Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf with my baby. He's into it. Hunky Dory next, I reckon. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vr4...
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Crackdown on the shelves at #Kerrisdale London Drugs!!
@garthmullins.bsky.social … you’ve arrived! 😃🤣
@garthmullins.bsky.social … you’ve arrived! 😃🤣
December 1, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Crackdown on the shelves at #Kerrisdale London Drugs!!
@garthmullins.bsky.social … you’ve arrived! 😃🤣
@garthmullins.bsky.social … you’ve arrived! 😃🤣
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We Refuse: Health Workers Against Involuntary Care is now public.
@hrna.bsky.social and DSDP are circulating a joint statement opposing BC’s plan to expand involuntary drug treatment. This approach is ineffective, increases overdose risk, violates autonomy, and harms marginalized communities.
@hrna.bsky.social and DSDP are circulating a joint statement opposing BC’s plan to expand involuntary drug treatment. This approach is ineffective, increases overdose risk, violates autonomy, and harms marginalized communities.
November 26, 2025 at 11:28 PM
We Refuse: Health Workers Against Involuntary Care is now public.
@hrna.bsky.social and DSDP are circulating a joint statement opposing BC’s plan to expand involuntary drug treatment. This approach is ineffective, increases overdose risk, violates autonomy, and harms marginalized communities.
@hrna.bsky.social and DSDP are circulating a joint statement opposing BC’s plan to expand involuntary drug treatment. This approach is ineffective, increases overdose risk, violates autonomy, and harms marginalized communities.
See for example, pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37285563/
Spatiotemporal Analysis Exploring the Effect of Law Enforcement Drug Market Disruptions on Overdose, Indianapolis, Indiana, 2020-2021 - PubMed
<span><b>Objectives.</b> To test the hypothesis that law enforcement efforts to disrupt local drug markets by seizing opioids or stimulants are associated with increased spatiotemporal clustering of overdose events in the surrounding geographic area. <b>Methods.</b> We performed a retrospective (January 1</span> …
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
November 25, 2025 at 7:00 PM
See for example, pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37285563/
Bollocks! Drug seizures lead to MORE overdoses. During Task Force Barrage, I reversed 3 ODs. At one, a cop threatened to arrest me for being in the way - after I saved the guy. Our Mayor is full of shite. www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...
Vancouver mayor credits DTES task force with reducing overdoses. Here’s what public health experts say
Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim continues to laud the impacts of a police-led task force focused on crime on Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, claiming it led to a reduction in overdoses.
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November 25, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Bollocks! Drug seizures lead to MORE overdoses. During Task Force Barrage, I reversed 3 ODs. At one, a cop threatened to arrest me for being in the way - after I saved the guy. Our Mayor is full of shite. www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...
I rocked my 6 month old baby as I learned another recent bleak war acronym:
WCNSF -
"Wounded child, no surviving family"
Such a common occurrence they needed an abbreviation. I held my baby as the genocide rumbled on and felt fucking useless. #Gaza
WCNSF -
"Wounded child, no surviving family"
Such a common occurrence they needed an abbreviation. I held my baby as the genocide rumbled on and felt fucking useless. #Gaza
November 7, 2025 at 11:14 PM
I rocked my 6 month old baby as I learned another recent bleak war acronym:
WCNSF -
"Wounded child, no surviving family"
Such a common occurrence they needed an abbreviation. I held my baby as the genocide rumbled on and felt fucking useless. #Gaza
WCNSF -
"Wounded child, no surviving family"
Such a common occurrence they needed an abbreviation. I held my baby as the genocide rumbled on and felt fucking useless. #Gaza
The lesser of evils is an easier calculation to make when both sides don’t conspire in your social murder. It’s necropolitics on both sides of the isle. One feels sheepish about it. The other celebrates. But your just as dead.
November 7, 2025 at 9:14 PM
The lesser of evils is an easier calculation to make when both sides don’t conspire in your social murder. It’s necropolitics on both sides of the isle. One feels sheepish about it. The other celebrates. But your just as dead.
Pissing on our graves from legislatures & parliaments, from opposition benches, from newspaper chains, from bully pulpits of all kinds, that has launched careers, helped win elections. It is the entire personality of some politicians & pundits. Just ask Mackenzie King.
November 7, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Pissing on our graves from legislatures & parliaments, from opposition benches, from newspaper chains, from bully pulpits of all kinds, that has launched careers, helped win elections. It is the entire personality of some politicians & pundits. Just ask Mackenzie King.
Helping us survive however, might cost votes.
November 7, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Helping us survive however, might cost votes.
There is no political cost for our deaths. The mountain of corpses has led to no government falling, no minister resigning, no cabinet shuffle, no high-ass muckedy-muck getting sacked, not even a junior official suspended. Nothing.
November 7, 2025 at 9:08 PM
There is no political cost for our deaths. The mountain of corpses has led to no government falling, no minister resigning, no cabinet shuffle, no high-ass muckedy-muck getting sacked, not even a junior official suspended. Nothing.
In this past decade of mass death, there were timid steps in the right direction - at first. But the most coherent, passionate response from the state (and its various apparatus) has been to smash DULF, hire more cops & roll back what little harm reduction we had won.
Breaking: the founders of DULF have been found guilty of three counts of drug trafficking. @michellegamage.bsky.social will have the full story later today thetyee.ca/News/2025/10...
Safe Drugs on Trial: DULF’s Trafficking Case Begins | The Tyee
The founders are charged with trafficking. Their lawyers argue they had a legal exemption from drug laws.
thetyee.ca
November 7, 2025 at 9:03 PM
In this past decade of mass death, there were timid steps in the right direction - at first. But the most coherent, passionate response from the state (and its various apparatus) has been to smash DULF, hire more cops & roll back what little harm reduction we had won.
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New on our PODCAST: SFU prof and researcher Kora DeBeck joins us with her comments on the expansion of involuntary care in B.C. @garthmullins.bsky.social @canadahealthwatch.ca @sudubc.bsky.social @msthpetra.bsky.social @koradebeck.bsky.social
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Substance use research scientist questions expansion of involuntary care
Podcast Episode · Redeye · 2025-10-24 · 18m
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October 24, 2025 at 3:48 PM
New on our PODCAST: SFU prof and researcher Kora DeBeck joins us with her comments on the expansion of involuntary care in B.C. @garthmullins.bsky.social @canadahealthwatch.ca @sudubc.bsky.social @msthpetra.bsky.social @koradebeck.bsky.social
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That does ring a bell
October 17, 2025 at 2:58 PM
That does ring a bell
The stats from BC gov I saw were a 77% reduction in possession offences & PPT were flat.
October 16, 2025 at 4:42 PM
The stats from BC gov I saw were a 77% reduction in possession offences & PPT were flat.
DULF case in court today. Judge: “everyone knew what was happening. It seems like these 2 [Nyx & Kalicum] are being hung out to dry. As soon as politicians started complaining, all of a sudden VPD-which before was fine-suddenly was not fine.” drugdatadecoded.ca/everyone-kne...
"Everyone knew what was happening," judge admonishes Crown as DULF awaits trafficking verdict
Justice Catherine Murray closed the trial with remarks that showed sympathy for the accused and noted the confusing behaviour of Health Canada, the Vancouver police and all other political entities du...
drugdatadecoded.ca
October 16, 2025 at 3:26 AM
DULF case in court today. Judge: “everyone knew what was happening. It seems like these 2 [Nyx & Kalicum] are being hung out to dry. As soon as politicians started complaining, all of a sudden VPD-which before was fine-suddenly was not fine.” drugdatadecoded.ca/everyone-kne...
We started DULF because we knew nobody was coming to save us, so we had to save ourselves. It worked. But right wing politicians made themselves famous off scapegoating us. The government de-funded us. The cops raided us. But our day in court is here. thetyee.ca/News/2025/10...
Safe Drugs on Trial: DULF’s Trafficking Case Begins | The Tyee
The founders are charged with trafficking. Their lawyers argue they had a legal exemption from drug laws.
thetyee.ca
October 14, 2025 at 6:51 PM
We started DULF because we knew nobody was coming to save us, so we had to save ourselves. It worked. But right wing politicians made themselves famous off scapegoating us. The government de-funded us. The cops raided us. But our day in court is here. thetyee.ca/News/2025/10...