Garth Mullins

Garth Mullins is a Canadian radio producer, author, activist, methadone user, 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.

He was bullied in school about his albinism. Crackdown podcast since 2019.

A previous intravenous user of heroin, Mullins describes how he sees the war on drugs as still affecting people in contemporary times.

Mullins performs as a musician in the band Legally Blind. He was interviewed by Globe and Mail reporter, Andrea Woo, at the Vancouver Writers' Fest on April 16, 2025. Their discussion focused on: "a radical reimagining of our approach to drug use, [leading] us to envisage a system that helps rather than punishes."

In 2026, Mullins endorsed Avi Lewis in that year's federal NDP leadership race.