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Dean Wilson—a Crackdown editorial board member and  elder statesman of Vancouver's drug user movement—thinks 2019 might be his most disappointing year as an activist. “We’ve accomplished absolutely fucking nothing, I’m incredibly depressed about it,” he recently told Garth Mullins. 

“2019, will be known to me as the year that nothing happened.” 

Dean’s right. We haven’t had a big win in a while. And 2019 feels a bit like a depressing blur. But it was also a year where we fought back. In the last Crackdown episode of the year, we tell four stories about surviving the drug war. Each story is one small moment--something that might otherwise be forgotten. Maybe these stories can tell us something about where we are now—and what we need to do in 2020.