All Episodes

179: Stuart Halls Encoding/Decoding and Breaking Bad as Full House meets Spaghetti Western (Madeline Grace)

178: Kids on Cocaine, Bisexual Young Women and Other Cultural Taboos—A Review of the Film Bodies, Bodies, Bodies (Madeline Grace)

177: Meth, Pervitin, Benzedrine, and Secret Nazi Speedball Drugs

176: Bad Coke, Objectification, and Stigma in Porntopia (Madeline Grace)

175: Sex Work, Cocaine, Porn and Ozempic in a Neoliberal Culture (Madeline Grace)

174: Dialectics of Alcohol Prohibition

173: Life after Life without Parole (David Carrillo)

172: Drug Boats, Hellfire Missiles and Foucault's Knowledge/Power

171: Media, Monopolies, and the Fairness Doctrine

170: Polybius and the End of Democracy

169: Freud on Drugs, Religion, Guilt, Shame and Civilization (Civilization and its Discontents)

168: Cocaine with Freud

167: Duct Taping Drugs to Bad Behavior

166: A Conversation with One of My Students about Drugs, Addiction and Neoliberalism (Madeline Grace)

165: Beers with my Dad (Steve Boyce)

164: The Kratom Wars

163: Kendrick, Drake, Christian Nationalism, and Accountability without Free Will

162: New Projects, Old Problems, and I Can't Leave Religion Alone (Dr. Christy Perez)

161: Drugs and Free Will

160: Dialectics of Coffee

159: Religious Trauma, Morality & Truth

158: Alcohol, Culture & Capitalism

157: Religious Addiction and Why I am not a Christian

156: Abuse, Trauma & Addiction (Jeremy Pavlik)

155: The Heroin Diaries (Ben Boyce & Meghan Cosgrove)

154: Cocaine, Prison Ink & 28 Years for Attempted Murder (Taylor Doucet)

153: Capitalism, Ponzi Schemes & A Few Millions Dollars of Missing Money (Sean Mueller)

152: Drugs, Bullets, Recovery & Role Models (Geordan Morris)

151: Life in Prison, College Degrees and 16 Grams of Coke (David Carrillo)

150: Jesus, Meth and Naked Arrests (Dr. Erin Boyce)

149: How Big Pharma Ruined it for Everyone

148: Drugs, Commercials & Social Media

147: The Opium of the Masses

146: Life in Guy Debord's Society of the Spectacle (pt 2)

145: Addiction, Ideology & the Society of the Spectacle

144: C. Dreams Free at Last (Dr. Christina Perez)

143: Cults, Drugs & The 12-Step Success Story

142: Where's my Adderall, Ritalin & Opioids?

141: The Panopticon

140: Captured Words/Free Thoughts, 20th Anniversary

139: We Couldn't Build it Worse if we Tried

138: Drugs and Addiction in a Neoliberal Oligarchy

137: Foucault on Drugs

136: Heroin with Adorno, Marx, Marcuse & Nietzsche

135: Capitalism and the War on Drugs (Benjamin Fong)

134: What's Wrong with Prison? (Christie Donner)

133: Attachment, Authenticity & Addiction (Dr. Erin Boyce)

132: Prisons on TV and the Spectacle of Punishment

131: The US War on Drugs 1970-2020

130: The US War on Drugs 1920-1970

129: The US War on Drugs 1870-1920

128: What Prison Should Be Like (Dr. Ashley Hamilton)

127: Poetry from Prison—Captured Words/Free Thoughts 19

126: Moderating Drug & Alcohol Use When you Don't Want to Stop (Kenneth Anderson)

125: Spice, K2 & Synthetic Cannabinoids (The Medium is the Message)

124: On Christianity (C Dreams)

123: Overcoming I Ain't Shit Syndrome (C Dreams)

122: Why I do this Work

121: Prison Education (Meghan Cosgrove)

120: For the Love of Heroin

119: Alcohol, 12-Step Programs and Bill Wilson on LSD

118: Drugs in Prison (C Dreams)

117: Prisons for Profit

116: The Origins of the War on Cannabis

115: Overmedication & Prison Education (Ann Bracken)

114: Rainbow Fentanyl

113: Placebo Effect

112: The Opium Wars

111: Religious Trauma, Belief, and Peace on Drugs (Aaron Akulis)

110: Alcohol, Religion & Pandemics

109: Dr. Marks' Heroin Clinics, Cocaine Cigarettes & Redefining Drugs (Toby Seddon)

108: Quitting Kratom—A Story about Set & Setting

107: Betel Nut

106: The Urge—Our History of Addiction (Dr. Carl Erik Fisher)

105: Poppers (Amyl Nitrite)

104: Social Media, Mass Shootings & The Future of Drug Policy (Dr. Erin Boyce)

103: Autism & Addiction

102: What it's Like in Places Where Drugs are Legal

101: The Shawshank Redemption—A Critical Review

100: What I Really Think about the Police

99: Why You Can't Punish Addiction

98: Rat Park & Other Drug Experiments

97: Drugs on TV

96: Who put Xylazine (Tranq) in my Drugs & Why is that a Problem?

95: Ketamine

94: Euphoria 2.0—A Critical Review (Dr. Erin Boyce)

93: Nitrous Oxide (Whippits, Party Balloons & Hippie Crack)

92: Portugal's Drug Policy & Methadone Vans

91: Captured Words/Free Thoughts Volume 18

90: Live from the Classroom - A Lecture about Drugs & the War against Users

#89: Art from Inside with The Justice Arts Coalition (Wendy Jason)

#88: Help after Incarceration with Remerg (Carol Peeples & Roohallah Mobarez)

#87: Cocaine Revisited

#86: Why you Can't Stay High Forever (Dr. Judith Grisel)

#85: What bell hooks Taught Us (Dr. Erin Boyce)

#84: Shooting Up

#83: Selling Cigarettes

#82: The Book Dr. Junkie

#81: Teaching Feminism to Incarcerated Students

#80: Medical Marijuana (Katie Sullivan)

#79: In Home Detox (Dr. Abe Malkin)

#78: Purple Syrup (Lean)

#77: One Year After Oregon's Drug Decriminalization Measure 110 (Morgan Godvin)

#76: Civil Asset Forfeiture

#75: False Positives & User Error in Roadside Drug Tests

#74: Ask me Anything (Dr. Erin Boyce)

#73: Speedballs—Myths & Misconceptions

#72: Preparing for Viral Apocalypse (Dr. Lisa Keränen)

#71: Fentanyl(s)

#70: Why I am Going back to Prison

#69: The Weight of Air (David Poses)

#68: Tracking the Opioid Settlements (Christine Minhee)

#67: Polyamory is for Everyone (Dr. Stephanie Webb)

#66: The Endocannabinoid System (Elise Keller)

#65: The Era of Big Pharma Settlements

#64: Undoing Drugs (Maia Szalavitz)

#63: Disciplined Silence

#62: Rewriting Our Life Stories (Dr. Travis Heath)

#61: Power

#60: Why are Drugs Illegal Anyway?

#59: My America by Chris Trigg

#58: Is Wokeness a Religion? (Dr. Erin Boyce)

#57: Las Vegas

#56: Religion as a Drug

#55: A Few Thoughts on The New Jim Crow

#54: Dance Safe, Drug Positive & Free Fentanyl Testing (Emanuel Sferios)

#53: How to Talk to Kids about Drugs (Laura Hull)

#52: Methadone

#51: Systems, not (just) People

#50: Will 3D Printed Drugs End the Drug War?

#49: Ghost Dope (Chris Trigg)

#48: The Derek Chauvin Trial...Haven't we Heard this Story Before?

#47: 19 Months Per Pill - Why we Torture Prisoners (Brandon Stickney)

#46: Free Will

#45: The Stanford Prison "Experiment"

#44: How to Make a Bad Apple - Milgram's Shock, Robbers Cave, and Arendt's "Banality of Evil"

#43: How Television is "Teaching you to Love Fear" (Dr. Travis Dixon)

#42: Cancel Culture versus Accountability (Rebecca Traister)

#41: The "Opioid Epidemic"

#40: Crack Cocaine

#39: Help, My Friend is Addicted to QAnon!

#38: The More Things Change...(Dr. Mia Fischer)

#37: Rethinking Addiction (Maia Szalavitz)

#36: The Problem with 12-Step Programs

#35: Suing Walmart-What the Justice Department Really Wants

#34: Everyone is Not Okay Right Now (and that's okay!)

#33: HBO's Euphoria - A Critical Review

#32: Shawshank, Oz and Fox News Teach us to be Afraid (Dr. Bill Yousman)

#31: Meditation (Dr. Jeni Hunniecutt)

#30: Whiteness (Dr. Dawn-Marie McIntosh)

#29: Captured Words\Free Thoughts vol. 17 (with incarcerated artists nationwide)

#28: Addiction

#27: Christian Privilege (Paul Kivel)

#26: Casualties of War (Jessie Dunleavy)

#25: Life without Parole...for Drugs! (Kevin Ott)

#24: Benzodiazepines

#23: About the Name "Dr. Junkie"

#22: When they call us Murderers (Morgan Godvin)

#21: "You Can't Say that to a Judge!" (Judge Holmes)

#20: Sex Work (Justice Rivera)

#19: Needles, Crackpipes and Free Drugs - Harm Reduction (Kat Humphries)

#18: Stoned Apes - Turn on, Tune in & Drop out

#17: First Trips (Vanessa & Riley Brown)

#16: MethAmphetamine (Dr. Erin Boyce)

#15: Shame

#14: Crime

#13: Between Ex-Inmates (Chandra Bozelko)

#12: The Prison-Industrial Complex

#11: Kratom (Dr. Oliver Grundman)

#10: Religious Experience (Dr.s J. Anderson & M. Ferguson)

#9: MDMA (Dr. Ben Sessa)

#8: Opioids

#7: Heroin

#6: Healing (Dr. Jeni Hunniecutt)

#5: Chronic Wokeness

#4: Cannabis

#3: Myths

#2: Cocaine

#1: About the Show