Dealing With Drugs: A Hot Press Podcast
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<p>Based in Ireland but global in reach, Hot Press magazine has been writing about drugs for fifty years with Lemmy, Pete Doherty, Howard Marks, Duff McKagan, Sam Fender, Moby, Margo Price, Steven Tyler, Marianne Faithfull, Matty Healy, Ian Brown and Noel and Liam Gallagher among those who’ve shared their pharmaceutical experiences with us.</p><p>Firm believers that prohibition and punishing people don’t work, we want to see some drugs legalised and others decriminalised.</p><p>From heroin, ketamine and cannabis to MDMA, LSD and synthetics, we’ll be teasing it out all out in our new monthly harm reduction podcast hosted by Stuart Clark.</p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
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9/5/2025
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June 2, 2026
Dealing With Drugs: Episode 5
<p><strong>“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 in</strong></p><p><strong>Legends!</strong></p><br><p><strong>This episode was produced by Stuart Clark and Tony Duffin and edited by Flo Laurent.</strong></p><p><br></p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
April 23, 2026
Dealing With Drugs: Episode 4
<p>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.</p><p>George Soros, Donald J. Trump and New York Times op-eds all feature as part of the lively discussion.</p><p>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.</p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
February 18, 2026
Dealing With Drugs: Episode 3
<p><strong>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.</strong></p><p><strong>Later, Noel took his expertise global as Garda Liaison Officer in South America, working in Colombia at the sharp end of the cocaine trade.</strong></p><p><strong>He helped disrupt multi-million euro shipments, including the €157 million MV Mattews seizure.</strong></p><br><p><strong>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. </strong></p><br><p><strong>Produced by Stuart Clark and Tony Duffin. Edited by Flo Laurent</strong></p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
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- What is Dealing With Drugs: A Hot Press Podcast?
<p>Based in Ireland but global in reach, Hot Press magazine has been writing about drugs for fifty years with Lemmy, Pete Doherty, Howard Marks, Duff McKagan, Sam Fender, Moby, Margo Price, Steven Tyler, Marianne Faithfull, Matty Healy, Ian Brown and Noel and Liam Gallagher among those who’ve shared their pharmaceutical experiences with us.</p><p>Firm believers that prohibition and punishing people don’t work, we want to see some drugs legalised and others decriminalised.</p><p>From heroin, ketamine and cannabis to MDMA, LSD and synthetics, we’ll be teasing it out all out in our new monthly harm reduction podcast hosted by Stuart Clark.</p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p> - How often does this podcast release new episodes?
This podcast updates daily.
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