Explore The Space

This episode contains adult language Garth Mullins is the host and executive producer of Crackdown Podcast. He also has opioid use disorder and a long struggle with heroin. He joins us for a unvarnished look at the opioid epidemic from street level and working as an activist. He also provides the most brutal description of dope sickness you'll ever hear as well as the importance of the physician/patient relationship for those struggling with recovery. Vital lessons for all, an important episode. Key Learnings 1.  Garth shares how "the howling alienation that had become the wallpaper of your life is gone" when he did heroin for the first time 2. How societal organization generates the precursors for problems people seek to solve with drugs 3, Carrying the fear of death, incarceration, & dope sickness 4. Crackdown Podcast as an activist model, a response to the frequent death of friends, and a pushback to media portrayal of opioid use disorder 5. Drawing parallels between the AIDS epidemic and the opioid