The Heroin Clinic

Summary: At Crosstown Clinic, doctors are turning addiction treatment on its head: they're prescribing heroin-users the very drug they're addicted to. This is the story of one clinic's quest to remove the harms of addiction, without removing the addiction itself. This radio documentary was written, edited and produced by Gordon Katic, Sam Fenn, Alexander Kim, and Travis Lupick. Travis Lupick is a reporter and editor with the Vancouver newspaper The Georgia Straight. If you like reading (as well as listening) check out the article we produced with him here. Another version was also produced in partnership with The Life of the Law. Subscribe to them on iTunes to hear a follow up conversation about this piece on March 21st. We’d like to thank Life of the Law for their editorial support, Dan Reist for academic mentorship, Josh GD for editorial input, as well as Lauryn Rohde and Jenn Luu for research and marketing help. Cited is a podcast and radio show funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and produced out of the produced out of the world class Michael Smith Laboratories at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. Follow us on iTunes (http://apple.co/2hW3B4c), Twitter (https://twitter.com/citedpodcast), Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/citedpodcast/), and email feedback to cited.podcast@ubc.ca.