Unknown Speaker 0:18 Come on, you gotta stay with us, bro. Unknown Speaker 0:21 You think the overdose crisis and the homeless crisis are sort of wrapped around each other? Unknown Speaker 0:25 I think so. Yeah. Seems like it doesn't it? Definitely. You know, like who's dying the most? Unknown Speaker 0:32 We used to put pictures on the wall and then do. Of the people we lost. It's hard to keep up with it nowadays. Unknown Speaker 0:43 I have seen this all before. This is my second overdose crisis. I was an injection heroin user, all the way through the first one, here in Vancouver. In that last crisis, Vancouver saw the highest rates of HIV AIDS transmission in the industrial world, because nobody could get clean needles. But we saw something else too. We saw drug user activism catch fire, we realized no one was coming to save us. So we'd better save ourselves. And we organized and we're still doing it. Can you like go down the list and like Tell me like the time and then the substance? Unknown Speaker 1:23 Powder for 42 powder for 42. Crack 446. Crack 455? The main needle depot in all of North America it had more syringes out here in all of North America. Unknown Speaker 1:40 Well, onceyou see root syringes, house, you see syringes. We have five cc barrelss, three cc barrels, we have water ties, cookers, pretty well, everything you need, except for the dope. Unknown Speaker 1:53 This podcast is going to be stories from us about that activism. It's going to be the drug war covered by drug users as war correspondents. Unknown Speaker 2:04 You know, we're not gonna quit doing drugs. Like that's not even an option. And if you're all these straight people that think that's an option, well, go read your book again, because in my book, it doesn't say anywhere where I'm quitting doing drugs. It's like you could read all the books till you lived it, you don't know it. Unknown Speaker 2:20 So what would you tell the people in charge, if you could? Unknown Speaker 2:24 There's so many things I can think of saying Unknown Speaker 2:28 they gotta listen to the field. Unknown Speaker 2:30 They gotta listen to what we say and what we're Unknown Speaker 2:33 going through because we're not making it up. It's not bullshit. It's not some fantasy. This is our lives. Unknown Speaker 2:39 My name is Garth Mullins. I'm the host of crackdown, a new podcast about drugs, drug policy and the drug war covered by drug users. Coming soon. To Black Rock. Unknown Speaker 2:52 Under the black rock. Shootup shock. Police Chief Unknown Speaker 2:55 Cold grief. Unknown Speaker 2:57 War on Drugs. Pull the plug. Nowhere to go. Ground Zero.