Narcotica Podcast

By Christopher Moraff, Troy Farah, Zachary Seigel

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Episodes: 93

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A podcast about the war on drugs and the people caught in the middle, brought to you by dedicated science and drug policy journalists Christopher Moraff, Zachary Siegel, and Troy Farah.

Episode Date
Episode 91: Drug Surveillance Won’t Stop at Opioids with Liz Chiarello
May 25, 2025
Episode 90: Navigating Shifting Chemical Landscapes with Claire Zagorski
Mar 02, 2025
Episode 89: Can Good Drug Policy Survive 2025?
Jan 10, 2025
Episode 88: Helping Harm Reduction Flourish with Joy Rucker
Sep 26, 2024
Episode 87: Drug Testing Equals Empowerment with Dr. Nabarun Dasgupta and Charlton Roverson
Aug 01, 2024
Bonus Episode: When Nothing Changes Nothing Changes from Naturally Noncompliant
May 28, 2024
Episode 86: Why Naloxone Still Matters with Nancy D. Campbell
Apr 29, 2024
Episode 85: “Narcoterrorism” is just another forever war lie with Oswaldo Zavala
Feb 09, 2024
Episode 84: How Drug Seizures Damage Public Health with Drs. Bradley Ray, Jennifer J. Carroll and Brandon del Pozo
Jan 12, 2024
Episode 83: The Parents Who Oppose The War on Drugs with Tamara Olt and Gretchen Bergman
Jun 15, 2023
Episode 82: Drug War Activism and the Future of Harm Reduction with Louise Vincent
Apr 20, 2023
Episode 81: Harm Reduction Against the Prison-Industrial Complex
Feb 02, 2023
Episode 80: A Messy History of Methadone with Dr. Zoe Adams
Dec 31, 2022
Episode 79: Is California Really Progressive on Drugs? with Dr. Isaac Jackson
Dec 19, 2022
Episode 78: Drug Use in a Post-Roe World with Dinah Ortiz
Sep 26, 2022
Episode 77: Harm Production — The Hazards of Drug Courts with Dave Lucas
Sep 07, 2022
Episode 76: How To Change Your Mind About ALL Drugs with Veronica Wright
Aug 05, 2022
Episode 75: Copaganda — The Favorite Tool of Drug Warriors with Alec Karakatsanis
Jul 25, 2022
Episode 74: Cannabis And Capitalism — Preventing Another Big Tobacco with Shaleen Title
Jul 13, 2022
Episode 73: Oh No! Not Naltrexone! with Nancy Curran
Jun 25, 2022
Episode 72: When The Trip Doesn’t End with Ed Prideaux
May 28, 2022
Episode 71: Aduhelm, Obscene Drug Prices and Big Pharma Tactics with Dr. John Abramson
Apr 12, 2022
Episode 70: How Testosterone Bans Criminalize the Body with Adryan Corcione
Apr 04, 2022
Episode 69: The Promise and Peril of the Psychedelic Mainstream with Shelby Hartman and Madison Margolin
Mar 21, 2022
Episode 68: Is The Drug War Getting Better… Or Worse? with Zach Siegel, Chris Moraff and Troy Farah
Mar 03, 2022
Episode 67: Methadone in the Time of Covid with Danielle Russell
Feb 08, 2022
Episode 66: Overlooking Alcohol and The Nature of Addiction with Dr. Stanton Peele
Jan 22, 2022
Episode 65: Restoring Trust in Doctors Amidst The Overdose Crisis with Dr. Ben Cocchiaro and Dr. Ashish Thakrar
Nov 19, 2021
Episode 64: LSD And Psilocybin For Physical Pain? with Greg McKee and Dr. Johannes Ramaekers
Nov 03, 2021
Episode 63: Delta-8-THC And Other Obscure Cannabinoids with Jason Wilson
Oct 08, 2021
Episode 62: Policing Pleasure — The Intersection of Sex Work and Drug Use with Tamika Spellman and Caty Simon
Sep 14, 2021
Episode 61: Undoing Drugs—Harm Reduction’s Early History with Maia Szalavitz
Jul 27, 2021
Episode 60: Perinatal Panic—Drugs, Pregnancy and Stigma with Ria Tsinas, Joelle Puccio and Erika Goyer
Jul 16, 2021
Episode 59: Psychedelic Extinction—How Poaching Endangers Some Psychoactive Plants with Dr. Anya Ermakova
Jul 01, 2021
Episode 58: How Racism Fuels The Drug War with Kassandra Frederique
Jun 12, 2021
Episode 57: Autism, Acid and the Altered Brain with Aaron Orsini and Justine Lee
May 23, 2021
Episode 56: Drug Use During Disaster with Aaron Ferguson
May 01, 2021
Episode 55: Street Sampling Synthetics, from Carfentanil to Xylazine with Alex Krotulski
Apr 24, 2021
Episode 54: West Virginia, America’s Worst Overdose and HIV Hotspot with Lauren Peace
Mar 22, 2021
Episode 53: A Life of Getting Lit with Tommy Chong
Mar 11, 2021
Episode 52: The Fundamental Human Right to Get High with Casey William Hardison
Feb 23, 2021
Episode 51: The Joy of Drug Use with Dr. Carl Hart
Feb 21, 2021
Episode 50: Sicarios and Supply Side Economics with Scott Stewart
Jan 26, 2021
Episode 49: Salvia: Psychedelic Oddity with Ivan Casselman (Plus, Canada’s Emerging Psilocybin Scene)
Dec 22, 2020
Episode 48: Moms And Methadone with Elizabeth Brico
Oct 01, 2020
Episode 47: Can Harm Reduction and Cops Coexist?
Sep 03, 2020
Episode 46: Behind The Pharmacists’ Counter with Jessica Moreno
Aug 17, 2020
Episode 45: Overdose Is Tragic, Not Murder with Morgan Godvin
Jul 08, 2020
Episode 44: Reimagining Public Health and Racial Justice with Dr. Ricky Bluthenthal
Jun 26, 2020
Episode 43: Russian Roulette—Life, Death and Getting High in Putin’s Backyard
Jun 09, 2020
Hot Spots 1 – 3 Arizona, Iowa and Nova Scotia
May 29, 2020
Episode 42: Supervised Consumption is an Essential Service
May 04, 2020
Episode 41: What Does It All Ketamine? with Dr. Erica Zelfand
Apr 06, 2020
Episode 40: Harm Reduction Amidst Pandemic with Daniel Raymond
Mar 17, 2020
Episode 39: Pain Patients Are Still Fighting For Their Lives with Kate Nicholson
Mar 14, 2020
Episode 38: Dead People Don’t Recover — The Importance of Safe Supply with Mark Tyndall
Feb 28, 2020
Episode 37: Covering Culture and Drugs with Substance with Kate Knibbs
Feb 20, 2020
Episode 36: Moral Hazards and Naloxone, A Toxicologist’s Perspective with Ryan Marino
Feb 13, 2020
Episode 35: Holding Space — The Values of Trip Sitting with Michelle Janikian
Jan 20, 2020
Episode 34: “Inside the Bloody War on Drugs” with Antony Lowenstein
Dec 16, 2019
Episode 33: Party and Play—An Intro to Chemsex with David Stuart
Nov 24, 2019
Episode 32: How Synthetic Drugs Conquered the Globe with Ben Westoff
Oct 31, 2019
Episode 31: Supervised Consumption: Narcotica Breaks Down Safehouse Ruling with Av Gutman
Oct 21, 2019
Episode 30: Getting Wrecked with Dr. Kim Sue
Oct 04, 2019
Episode XXIX: Darth Vaper The Panic Strikes Back
Sep 18, 2019
Episode 28: Antibiotic Resistance and Doping at the Olympics with Mike Pearl
Sep 17, 2019
Episode 27: What’s the Most Dangerous Drug?
Sep 06, 2019
Episode 26: Housing As Harm Reduction
Aug 12, 2019
Episode 25: Banning Kratom Will Escalate the Opioid Overdose Crisis with Walter Prozialeck
Jul 30, 2019
Episode 24: How To Get Abortion Pills Feat. Lynn Paltrow and Francine Coeytaux
Jul 14, 2019
Episode 23: Bring Back Prescription Heroin! with Travis Lupick
Jul 03, 2019
Episode 22: Changing the Narrative with Maia Szalavitz and Leo Beletsky
Jun 24, 2019
Episode 21: Ethically Documenting Drug Use Activism with Nigel Brunsdon
Jun 13, 2019
Episode 20: The Pitfalls of Mainstream Harm Reduction with Eliza Wheeler
May 31, 2019
Episode 19: Debunking Bupe Diversion Myths with Molly Doernberg
May 12, 2019
Episode 18: Drug User Unions – The Rebirth of Harm Reduction with Jess Tilley and Albie Park
May 07, 2019
Episode 17: Using DMT To Contact Aliens with Andrew Gallimore
Apr 27, 2019
Episode 16: The Crew Interviews the Crackdown’s Garth Mullins
Apr 12, 2019
Episode 15: Accurate, Compassionate Drug Journalism with Filter Magazine
Apr 03, 2019
Episode 14: Harm Reduction Dies in Darkness—Jeff Deeney
Mar 18, 2019
Episode 13: Beyond Borders – “Drug War Capitalism”
Mar 08, 2019
Episode 12: Beyond Borders — “El Chapo” and the Mexican Fentanyl Pipeline with Keegan Hamilton
Feb 13, 2019
Episode 11: Beyond Borders — How the U.S. Exports Dangerous Drug Policy with Sanho Tree
Feb 04, 2019
Episode 10: Did The FDA Just Say Kratom Is Illegal?
Nov 28, 2018
Episode 9: Speed Up, Slow Down Pt. 3 — The Cocaine Fentanyl Blues
Nov 20, 2018
Episode 8: Collateral Damage—Patients Fight Back
Nov 02, 2018
Episode 7: Drug War Déjà Vu
Oct 24, 2018
Episode 6: Speed Up, Slow Down Pt. 2 — Myth Evolution: From Crack Kids to Addicted Babies
Oct 18, 2018
Episode 5: Speed Up, Slow Down Pt. 1
Oct 11, 2018
Episode 4: Supervised Consumption Breaks Rod Rosenstein’s Brain
Sep 16, 2018
Episode 3: Remembering Dan Bigg, Naloxone Renegade
Sep 08, 2018
Episode 2: Anthony Bourdain, Suicide and the Myth of Cross Addiction
Jun 26, 2018
Episode 1: Opioid of the Masses
May 24, 2018