Dealing With Drugs: A Hot Press Podcast

In the latest Dealing With Drugs, Fiona Patten talks about founding the Australian Sex Party – election slogan: “You come first!” – and the work she’s done around drug policy reform, assisted dying and abortion clinic exclusion zones; we meet Jason Kew, the former senior British policeman who’s now a leading harm reduction campaigner and has been on a crack pipe crusade; and hear words of wisdom from Harry Shapiro, the Bob Dylan, Jeff Beck and Jimi Hendrix biographer who's also the man behind online information service, DrugWise.This episode was produced by Stuart Clark and Tony Duffin and edited by Flo Laurent. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

“Five minutes to evacuate…” In the new Dealing With Drugs, Tatyana Sleiman from the Skoun Lebanese Addiction Center tells us about living, working and providing harm reduction services in a warzone; we talk Trump, Robert Kennedy Jr., psychedelics, the bombing of supposed ‘narco boats’, consumption rooms and the perfect drug policy with Dr. Kasia Malinowska from the Open Society Foundations; and André Celinsky on the fight for sensible drug policy in Canada. Plus, why everyone should watch Steve Coogan inLegends!This episode was produced by Stuart Clark and Tony Duffin and edited by Flo Laurent. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In the new Dealing With Drugs: A Hot Press Podcast, we ask, “What the hell is going on with marijuana?” – and get the answers from Ethan Nadelmann who’s spent over 40 years working to end the war on drugs.George Soros, Donald J. Trump and New York Times op-eds all feature as part of the lively discussion.Plus, we preview stoner drug comedy, Pizza Movie, and talk to the Secret Drug Addict about his new book, Diary Of A Secret Drug Addict: Addiction, Dependence and Recovery. An Ex-User’s Guide To Breaking Free, which includes his time working for Creation Records at the height of Britpop. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The latest edition of Dealing With Drugs: A Hot Press Podcast features a blockbuster interview with Noel Browne who spent 41 years in the Irish police tackling the country's most dangerous gangs.Later, Noel took his expertise global as Garda Liaison Officer in South America, working in Colombia at the sharp end of the cocaine trade.He helped disrupt multi-million euro shipments, including the €157 million MV Mattews seizure.Plus, Irish Olympic swimmer Max McCusker tells us about his participation in this summer’s inaugural Enhanced Games in Las Vegas and activist Peter Sarosi on the recent rave demonstration against Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán and his crackdown on both people with drug dependency issues and the organisations trying to help them. Produced by Stuart Clark and Tony Duffin. Edited by Flo Laurent Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In episode two of our Dealing With Drugs podcast, we ask, "What is really going on with the international drug trade?" and get the answersfrom Daniel Brombacher, Director of the Observatory of Organised Crime in Europe. We talk to celebrated Irish musician Damien Dempseyabout the friends and family members he's lost to heroin and cocaine; preview Netflix's new cannabis industrydrama, Amsterdam Empire; and investigate the crack down on drug use in Russia and the Kremlin's draconian banning of harm reduction organisations. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In the first action-packed episode of our new Dealing With Drugs podcast, we find out about widespread drug use by soldiers on the Ukrainian frontline; talk to Irvine Welsh about acid house, the addictive nature of modern life, Shane MacGowan, Irish literary heroes and what Sick Boy, Renton, Spud and Begbie are up to in the brilliant Trainspotting sequel, Men In Love; and hear how Donald Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are proving hazardous to America’s health. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.