Crackdown (podcast)

{{short description|Canadian podcast}}

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{{Infobox podcast

| title = Crackdown

| image = Crackdown Podcast Cover.jpg

| host = Garth Mullins

| began = 2019

| website = {{URL|https://crackdownpod.com/}}

}}

Crackdown is a Canadian monthly podcast first launched in 2019.{{Cite web|last1=Nagy|first1=Melanie|last2=Slaughter|first2=Graham|date=2020-10-08|title='Crackdown' podcast gives drug users a voice in confronting opioid crisis|url=https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/crackdown-podcast-gives-drug-users-a-voice-in-confronting-opioid-crisis-1.5138890|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-11-01|website=CTV News|language=en}}{{Cite news|last=Baker|first=Rafferty|date=2019-01-30|title=Crackdown podcast tells story of overdose crisis from drug users' perspectives|work=CBC News|url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/crackdown-podcast-garth-mullins-1.4998251|access-date=2020-11-01}} The podcast was created and hosted by drug users and interrogates Canadian and global drug policy from the perspective of drug user activists who are the most impacted by these policies and fight to change them. The show is hosted by journalist Garth Mullins who talks about his own former drug use on the show.{{cite web |last1=Mullins |first1=Garth |title=On Making 'Crackdown,' a Podcast from the Trenches of the Overdose Crisis |date=September 27, 2019 |url=https://thetyee.ca/Mediacheck/2019/09/27/Crackdown-Podcast-Overdose-Crisis-Trenches-Drug-Users/ |accessdate=17 August 2020}}{{cite web |last1=Baker |first1=Rafferty |title=Crackdown podcast tells story of overdose crisis from drug users' perspectives |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/crackdown-podcast-garth-mullins-1.4998251 |accessdate=17 August 2020}}