SMART Policy Podcast

About SMART Policy Podcast

Podcast by the UT SMART Initiative. Host Jeremy Kourvelas speaks with experts from across the recovery ecosystem - representing healthcare, prevention, law enforcement and more - about local, state and federal drug policy to find out what is and isn't working to make this fight against addiction a little easier.

Publisher

SMART Initiative

Category

science

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

30 Aug 2022

Latest episode

7 Jul 2026

Latest episodes

46 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   7 Jul 2026

   Controlled, Unpleasant, Unpatented, and Potentially Life-Saving: the Ibogaine Question

   On April 18th, 2026, President Trump signed Executive Order 14401, which directs federal agencies to accelerate research into psychedelic medications for the treatment of serious mental illness, including substance use disorder. One of the most prominent substances mentioned in this EO is the alkaloid ibogaine. As of this podcast episode, ibogaine is a Schedule I controlled substance in the U.S., meaning that legally it is considered to have a high potential for abuse without any known...

2. 

   1 Jun 2026

   12 Hard Lessons: Richard J. Baum on America's Opioid Crisis

   The arc of the opioid crisis is, by now, familiar to most people. Over-prescribing of legal opioids in the late nineties caused escalating numbers of people to develop use disorders. In the 2000s, new prescribing guidelines and controlled substance monitoring went into effect, and the legal supply of opioids rapidly reduced - so quickly that many people with opioid dependence turned to heroin to stave off withdrawal. But that only made the problem much worse. And then by the mid 2010s, ...

3. 

   2 Apr 2026

   Why a New Synthetic Opioid is Outsmarting Drug Tests

   There’s been growing attention to a new chemical in the illicit drug supply: N-Propionitrile Chlorphine, also known as cychlorphine. On top of being more potent than fentanyl, it’s also extremely hard to detect on toxicology tests. Currently, all deaths attributed to cychlorphine have been identified in the East Tennessee region around Knoxville, but experts believe it is in more areas already - we just haven’t been able to identify it. Cychlorphine is an excellent example of why...

Who has been a guest on SMART Policy Podcast

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Dr Kristen Gilliland
• Wes Golden
• Mark Potts

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Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

4 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

3 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 21 / 100

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Quality

18

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

60

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