Narcotica Podcast

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