Английская Википедия:Garth Mullins
Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Infobox person Garth Mullins is a Canadian radio producer, activist, methadone user,[1] and musician. He is the host of the Crackdown podcast and a board member of Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users.
His podcast won The Canadian Hillman Prize in 2020.
Early life
Mullins grew up in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories in the 1970s.[2]
He was bullied in school about his albinism.[3][2] During high school he worked in banking and construction; after high school he worked in a mine in Northwest Territories.[2] Being blind[3] was a barrier to employment opportunities, prompting him to return to studies at the University of Victoria.[2] While studying, he hosted a radio show called The War Measures Act and took heroin for the first time at the age of 19.[2] After graduating from the University of Victoria, he studied political sociology at the London School of Economics, while writing articles for the Vancouver Sun.[2]
Later life and views
Mullins has hosted the monthly[4] Crackdown podcast since 2019.[1] His team won The Canadian Hillman Prize in 2020.[5]
A previous intravenous user of heroin,[5] Mullins is a user of methadone.[4] He speaks about his own use of drugs on the Crackdown podcast hoping to inprove public education.[4] He serves on the board of directors of the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users.[6] Mullins describes how he sees the war on drugs as still affecting people in contemporary times.[1] He is an advocate for the legalisation of street drugs,[6] and has campaigned against the planned expansion in scope of Canada's Medical Assistance in Dying permissibility to include people with disabilities.[3]
Mullins performs as a musician in the band Legally Blind.[7][5]
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