Narcotica and Narcomedia are proud to share an exciting new sibling podcast, Naturally Noncompliant, which is about people who stand in line and fight for safe supply, especially methadone, the original safe supply. Methadone is the first frontier in this fight, and this show emphasizes the voices of patients and directly impacted people in that battle.

The material for this show stems from the “Naturally Noncompliant” call that takes place every other Thursday and is organized by the National Survivors Union, the national voice of people who use drugs.

During COVID-19 methadone clinics were allowed to relax the stringent rules that had been in place for many decades for the first time. Few of them did so, and our story and interview today center around the entrenched attitudes and ossification that has kept the very treatment systems tasked with helping from doing so. Imagine what everyone else is doing…

This is the first of a two part interview with Irene Garnett and Caty Simon.

Caty Simon has spent 20 years in the low-income rights, psychiatric survivors’ rights, sex workers’ rights, and drug users union movements. She is a leadership team member of and a sex worker liaison for National Survivors Union (NSU), the United States national drug users union.

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