All Episodes

Episode 96: The Schism of Addiction and Vice with Elizabeth Roberts

Episode 95: Behind the Speedboat Dope Bombings with Ioan Grillo

Episode 94: The AI Dystopia Acid Test with Douglas Rushkoff

Episode 93: Veterans’ Harm Reduction Battle with Beth Dinges

Episode 92: The Drug War’s Invisible Casualties with Sheila Vakharia

Episode 91: Drug Surveillance Won’t Stop at Opioids with Liz Chiarello

Episode 90: Navigating Shifting Chemical Landscapes with Claire Zagorski

Episode 89: Can Good Drug Policy Survive 2025?

Episode 88: Helping Harm Reduction Flourish with Joy Rucker

Episode 87: Drug Testing Equals Empowerment with Dr. Nabarun Dasgupta and Charlton Roverson

Bonus Episode: When Nothing Changes Nothing Changes from Naturally Noncompliant

Episode 86: Why Naloxone Still Matters with Nancy D. Campbell

Episode 85: “Narcoterrorism” is just another forever war lie with Oswaldo Zavala

Episode 84: How Drug Seizures Damage Public Health with Drs. Bradley Ray, Jennifer J. Carroll and Brandon del Pozo

Episode 83: The Parents Who Oppose The War on Drugs with Tamara Olt and Gretchen Bergman

Episode 82: Drug War Activism and the Future of Harm Reduction with Louise Vincent

Episode 81: Harm Reduction Against the Prison-Industrial Complex

Episode 80: A Messy History of Methadone with Dr. Zoe Adams

Episode 79: Is California Really Progressive on Drugs? with Dr. Isaac Jackson

Episode 78: Drug Use in a Post-Roe World with Dinah Ortiz

Episode 77: Harm Production — The Hazards of Drug Courts with Dave Lucas

Episode 76: How To Change Your Mind About ALL Drugs with Veronica Wright

Episode 75: Copaganda — The Favorite Tool of Drug Warriors with Alec Karakatsanis

Episode 74: Cannabis And Capitalism — Preventing Another Big Tobacco with Shaleen Title

Episode 73: Oh No! Not Naltrexone! with Nancy Curran

Episode 72: When The Trip Doesn’t End with Ed Prideaux

Episode 71: Aduhelm, Obscene Drug Prices and Big Pharma Tactics with Dr. John Abramson

Episode 70: How Testosterone Bans Criminalize the Body with Adryan Corcione

Episode 69: The Promise and Peril of the Psychedelic Mainstream with Shelby Hartman and Madison Margolin

Episode 68: Is The Drug War Getting Better… Or Worse? with Zach Siegel, Chris Moraff and Troy Farah

Episode 67: Methadone in the Time of Covid with Danielle Russell

Episode 66: Overlooking Alcohol and The Nature of Addiction with Dr. Stanton Peele

Episode 65: Restoring Trust in Doctors Amidst The Overdose Crisis with Dr. Ben Cocchiaro and Dr. Ashish Thakrar

Episode 64: LSD And Psilocybin For Physical Pain? with Greg McKee and Dr. Johannes Ramaekers

Episode 63: Delta-8-THC And Other Obscure Cannabinoids with Jason Wilson

Episode 62: Policing Pleasure — The Intersection of Sex Work and Drug Use with Tamika Spellman and Caty Simon

Episode 61: Undoing Drugs—Harm Reduction’s Early History with Maia Szalavitz

Episode 60: Perinatal Panic—Drugs, Pregnancy and Stigma with Ria Tsinas, Joelle Puccio and Erika Goyer

Episode 59: Psychedelic Extinction—How Poaching Endangers Some Psychoactive Plants with Dr. Anya Ermakova

Episode 58: How Racism Fuels The Drug War with Kassandra Frederique

Episode 57: Autism, Acid and the Altered Brain with Aaron Orsini and Justine Lee

Episode 56: Drug Use During Disaster with Aaron Ferguson

Episode 55: Street Sampling Synthetics, from Carfentanil to Xylazine with Alex Krotulski

Episode 54: West Virginia, America’s Worst Overdose and HIV Hotspot with Lauren Peace

Episode 53: A Life of Getting Lit with Tommy Chong

Episode 52: The Fundamental Human Right to Get High with Casey William Hardison

Episode 51: The Joy of Drug Use with Dr. Carl Hart

Episode 50: Sicarios and Supply Side Economics with Scott Stewart

Episode 49: Salvia: Psychedelic Oddity with Ivan Casselman (Plus, Canada’s Emerging Psilocybin Scene)

Episode 48: Moms And Methadone with Elizabeth Brico

Episode 47: Can Harm Reduction and Cops Coexist?

Episode 46: Behind The Pharmacists’ Counter with Jessica Moreno

Episode 45: Overdose Is Tragic, Not Murder with Morgan Godvin

Episode 44: Reimagining Public Health and Racial Justice with Dr. Ricky Bluthenthal

Episode 43: Russian Roulette—Life, Death and Getting High in Putin’s Backyard

Hot Spots 1 – 3 Arizona, Iowa and Nova Scotia

Episode 42: Supervised Consumption is an Essential Service

Episode 41: What Does It All Ketamine? with Dr. Erica Zelfand

Episode 40: Harm Reduction Amidst Pandemic with Daniel Raymond

Episode 39: Pain Patients Are Still Fighting For Their Lives with Kate Nicholson

Episode 38: Dead People Don’t Recover — The Importance of Safe Supply with Mark Tyndall

Episode 37: Covering Culture and Drugs with Substance with Kate Knibbs

Episode 36: Moral Hazards and Naloxone, A Toxicologist’s Perspective with Ryan Marino

Episode 35: Holding Space — The Values of Trip Sitting with Michelle Janikian

Episode 34: “Inside the Bloody War on Drugs” with Antony Lowenstein

Episode 33: Party and Play—An Intro to Chemsex with David Stuart

Episode 32: How Synthetic Drugs Conquered the Globe with Ben Westoff

Episode 31: Supervised Consumption: Narcotica Breaks Down Safehouse Ruling with Av Gutman

Episode 30: Getting Wrecked with Dr. Kim Sue

Episode XXIX: Darth Vaper The Panic Strikes Back

Episode 28: Antibiotic Resistance and Doping at the Olympics with Mike Pearl

Episode 27: What’s the Most Dangerous Drug?

Episode 26: Housing As Harm Reduction

Episode 25: Banning Kratom Will Escalate the Opioid Overdose Crisis with Walter Prozialeck

Episode 24: How To Get Abortion Pills Feat. Lynn Paltrow and Francine Coeytaux

Episode 23: Bring Back Prescription Heroin! with Travis Lupick

Episode 22: Changing the Narrative with Maia Szalavitz and Leo Beletsky

Episode 21: Ethically Documenting Drug Use Activism with Nigel Brunsdon

Episode 20: The Pitfalls of Mainstream Harm Reduction with Eliza Wheeler

Episode 19: Debunking Bupe Diversion Myths with Molly Doernberg

Episode 18: Drug User Unions – The Rebirth of Harm Reduction with Jess Tilley and Albie Park

Episode 17: Using DMT To Contact Aliens with Andrew Gallimore

Episode 16: The Crew Interviews the Crackdown’s Garth Mullins

Episode 15: Accurate, Compassionate Drug Journalism with Filter Magazine

Episode 14: Harm Reduction Dies in Darkness—Jeff Deeney

Episode 13: Beyond Borders – “Drug War Capitalism”

Episode 12: Beyond Borders — “El Chapo” and the Mexican Fentanyl Pipeline with Keegan Hamilton

Episode 11: Beyond Borders — How the U.S. Exports Dangerous Drug Policy with Sanho Tree

Episode 10: Did The FDA Just Say Kratom Is Illegal?

Episode 9: Speed Up, Slow Down Pt. 3 — The Cocaine Fentanyl Blues

Episode 8: Collateral Damage—Patients Fight Back

Episode 7: Drug War Déjà Vu

Episode 6: Speed Up, Slow Down Pt. 2 — Myth Evolution: From Crack Kids to Addicted Babies

Episode 5: Speed Up, Slow Down Pt. 1

Episode 4: Supervised Consumption Breaks Rod Rosenstein’s Brain

Episode 3: Remembering Dan Bigg, Naloxone Renegade

Episode 2: Anthony Bourdain, Suicide and the Myth of Cross Addiction

Episode 1: Opioid of the Masses