My 5 month old baby started hugging me last week. I no longer need opioids.

I’m sorry B-52s, but your love shack sounds like a pretty rancid joint. All the backing vocals in the universe can’t compensate for the couch in there

Just finished Crackdown by @garthmullins.bsky.social It’s an essential piece of history and good sense policy on the failures of the drug war. I highly recommend to anyone, especially educators. www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/700597...

Both the poison drug crisis & the climate crisis were declared emergencies. Both have been met with half-measures that fail while the far-right mobilizes and governments offer funding cuts and increased police budgets. Listen now: www.climateemergencyunit.ca/podcast

I was honoured to talk with @sethdklein.bsky.social & @anjaliappadurai.bsky.social about the interconnections between drug war & the climate apocalypse. It's all necropolitics.

VPD has zero credibility in reporting violent crime statistics. By selective & sensational use of stats, they helped their friends get elected to city council. Now Task Force Barrage is out of gas & VPD wants more money. dailyhive.com/vancouver/va...

I am honoured to be invited by Fr. Bill Mok to give the keynote address at Together From Stigma to Support conference at St. Alban's Church in Richmond, BC on Saturday. Everyone welcome.

New VANDU member joined up.

In the hi tech dystopian futures imagined in film and TV, space travel is possible but somehow not a fluorescent light that doesn't flicker.

Flight attendants at Air Canada have shown workers acting in solidarity can defy a crackdown on their rights—and strike for a better deal, including ending unpaid work. As Carney prepares major cuts and attacks on public sector workers, it’s a model for bold labour action. youtu.be/f08RS-o5ohk

Amazing! Hope you like it, Peter. Thanks

Solidarity with CUPE flight attendants. All workers benefit from their defiance of back to work orders. Their fight is our fight.

My aunt was the 1st Chinese Canadian woman elected to public office in British Columbia. She died over the weekend. Her & her mother were well-known activists in the Vancouver Chinese community. They brought our family together with food & love. My baby got to meet her in her last few days 💔

Just finished reading @garthmullins.bsky.social extraordinary memoir Crackdown. If you are looking to better understand addiction and the insanity of the war on drugs, I highly recommend it. Fantastic writing & deep insights.

Full house at BCAPOM today for a listening party: @crackdownpod.bsky.social ep37 “Drugstore Cowboy” about the moral panic around “diversion” (AKA Sharing) www.crackdownpod.com/episodes/epi...

🏳️‍🌈☂️You can’t celebrate Pride while leaving sex workers behind. Pride was born from resistance. Queer & trans people-including sex workers-fought unjust laws. Not just a parade. #WISH

Trump's order to erase, banish, incarcerate anyone who can't pay North America's skyrocketing rents. Deep criminalization of homeless & drug users. This is what fascism looks like. Jurisdictions to the north try variations of bits of this, dream of the whole regime www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Please help get this account some legs. Concerned, healthcare professionals, speaking out against involuntary care.

VPD has been seizing dope since 1908. Busting heroin led to fentanyl. Busting fentanyl is leading to benzodope & tranqdope. Violence flares as new dealers battle to replace those arrested. The cycle will continue until cops stand down & we all try something different. globalnews.ca/video/113030...

When I worked at Lupin Gold Mine back in the day, there was an annual day of friendly competitions. The mine rescue guys were always top notch. I hope these guys get out safe. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Everyone on AC 112 to Toronto today is reading the brilliant @garthmullins.bsky.social best selling book @Crackdown. In stores now!!

RiP Ozzy 🤘

Decriminalization was gutted by panicked politicians. There was no increased public use. But there was increased moral panic. Today several drug user groups are in court. We’re asking judges to review that decision. Wish us luck.

"Members of the research team heard about frequent unannounced police visits to local [Ontario] harm reduction programs." "[P]olice would enter the premises, search clients' belongings, interrogate staff, and at times arrest service users." #Ontario #Canada #Drugs #Healthcare #Policing

"Gotta get up, listen to me / Clappa your hands, stompa your feet." No. Pop songs are not the boss of me.

filtermag.org/garth-mullin... "I feel like Crackdown’s editorial board are the leaders of Canada’s drug policy family." So lucky to interview @garthmullins.bsky.social for my latest in @filtermag.bsky.social...check it out below or buy the book wherever you buy your books!

Since this happened one week ago, I have heard from several people that cops in Vancouver are showing up to ODs again and interfering with efforts to resuscitate people. @crackdownpod.bsky.social will be reporting on this. Stay tuned. Cops don't go to heart attacks. Stand down.

🚨Bad Dope Alert - this is a new one to me... Multiple samples (pink chunk, beige chunk, beige granules) sold as down in DTES tested positive for piperidone, a precursor chemical used to make fentanyl, and negative for fentanyl itself. Substance may cause dizziness, nausea and abdominal pain.

People smoking dope with lockable torches occasionally get bad burns, start fires. When City set out to ban 'em, I said: make non-lockable torches available free at harm reduction locations. It'd quickly replace lockable ones. We were ignored. globalnews.ca/news/1127230...

In what other situation would you save someone’s life & get threatened with arrest for it? In any other situation they’d take your name and give you sone kind of citizen award

Just narcanned a guy on Hawks & Hastings. Took 4 ampules & 10 min. Thought he wasn’t coming back. Scared the shit out of me. Cop yelled at me: “Get back!! I won’t tell you again!!” I said, “I was the first responder here. I saved his life. Just want him to see a friendly face.” 🖕Task Force Barrage

Great to see @garthmullins.bsky.social book Crackdown in the BC Ferries’ shop. Everyone needs to read this book!

Methadone is a well studied, safe, subsidized, pharmaceutical opioid. A pretty good substitute for heroin. But street dope is stronger now, so we need stronger substitutes.

When police enforcement ratchets up, so do OD deaths. We know this. It has been studied. Task Force Barrage, VPD & Mayor Sim are our grave-diggers. vancouversun.com/news/local-n...

🚨Be careful under that heat dome out east. 620 died out west in 2021. Overdoses are more common when the mercury is up. But on the DTES, deaths were less than they could’ve been bc we take care of each other. So do that. Check on yer people. Find shade. Stay hydrated. Stay safe 🌡️

I’ve heard Bon Jovi’s Living On A Prayer hundreds of times. 🧀🎸None of them were my choice. Monday at the Ovaltine it was on the radio. I actually paid attention to the bass line. And it’s pretty decent. I wanna rip it off somehow.

Ah comrade, no. Shit. RiP Peter 💔 www.bbc.com/news/article...

"When Poilievre says 'everything in Canada feels broken,' that feels true to me." "But that's the bait. And then comes the switch. The switch is: 'Well, we have to blame drug users. We have to blame trans kids. We have to blame immigrants.'" #BritishColumbia #Canada #Drugs #Policing

Of course the local anarchist bookshop has my book Crackdown, and it’s moving pretty good, they say. Plus, they made this little display with a review from BC Bookworld.

At today's @crackdownpod.bsky.social editorial board meeting we had @msthpetra.bsky.social from Moms Stop the Harm drop by. Also copies of my book for everyone. I did not prompt them to hold 'em up. That was Samona's idea.

I am very glad to hear the federal minister of health say that forced treatment does not work. Now all the provincial health ministers gotta listen. @crackdownpod.bsky.social will have an ep on this out in a few days. cfjctoday.com/2025/06/03/h...

Commodity fetishism. news.artnet.com/market/kurt-...

I am honoured for my book Crackdown to be featured in BC Bookworld this summer 🤯📚#booksky bcbooklook.com/on-the-addic...

Since I was first handed a new syringe by a harm reduction activist, I knew I had to be involved. I've seen many others join up too. But in every war, soldiers are rotated off the front lines for R&R. We need to do this. Because we're losing hundreds to burn out, grief, PTSD & exhaustion.

The Old Spaghetti Factory is a chain?!? I thought it was some pokey old Vancouver thing. Somehow, I feel cheated. I assume everybody else knew

Shameful shit for a shameful city

When I was ten years old, I was in the care of an adult that should not have been allowed to be around children. I watched as missing children appeared in the newspaper. I cut out their pictures and biographical info and glued it into my notebook, in case I ever ran into them.

A great book for those trying to understand why harm reduction & safe supply are needed. @garthmullins.bsky.social uses story and experience to make a compelling case. And it's a pleasure to read. Which is weird given the topic, but true nonetheless.

What do we all know about the pneumonia circulating on the DTES? My best friend may well have it and I need information. What are the effects on a very underweight man in his 50s who been smoking rock & corner cigarettes for decades?

We never heard of that DTES Czar. VANDU woulda told him the solutions are already known: safe supply, decrim, defund VPD & reallocate to community, build public housing. But he never called. Now he’s sacked.