Show Notes
August 31, 2020. Today is International Overdose Awareness Day, but so what? Who needs to be made aware? Who among us can’t see the corpses piling up from this endless war? And just when you think things can't get much bleaker, they do. On today's show Garth interviews Tim Slaney. Tim is a harm reduction worker at the supervised consumption site in Lethbridge, Alberta - one of the busiest in the world. And the government is shutting it down. Music from the Arches Mic Club featured in this episode: "Dream Big" by Lonzo, Leland, and Doobyis "Fully Beaded" by Lonzo, Doobyis, and Buck "Back at the Start" by Karley B "Speak These Words" by Lil Branden, Doobyis, Colicchie, and Lonzo
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