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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.
As we’ve said hundreds of times on Narcotica, the drug war is a war on people used to advance some of the worst atrocities in history. Drugs...
The internet and drugs are deeply intertwined in a way that isn’t glib or always obvious. Being online is a deeply conscious experience that...
Despite all the nationalism in our country, veterans are too often seen as expendable. Drug use in the military is as common as any other as...
Overdose deaths are the go-to metric for how well drug policy is performing, but those on the ground know that harms from the drug war can i...
Opioids are some of the best drugs ever invented. News flash! But that’s not something you’ll hear from the mainstream media anymore. No, th...
The endless whac-a-mole of the drug war, banning one chemical as soon as three more become popular, can never be won. That just isn’t how ch...
Last year was a crazy time for drug policy and 2025 is looking to up the ante on the chaos. Narcotica hosts Chris Moraff, Aaron Ferguson and...
Harm reduction means so many different things to so many different people, and some have even grown weary of the way the term has now been w...
On today’s episode, we’re going to talk about drug testing but not the tedious ways in which you should (probably) do it. There are plenty o...
Narcotica and Narcomedia are proud to share an exciting new sibling podcast, Naturally Noncompliant, which is about people who stand in line...
Naloxone is a miracle drug. Calling any drug a miracle can be problematic, but admittedly there are a few of them, in my opinion: penicillin...
If you only get your international drug policy history from Netflix, you might think that the drug traffickers in Mexico are a smart, coordi...
Like some kind of perverse fishing expedition, we’re all familiar with the drug warriors’ favorite form of theater: the drug bust. Every pol...
The War on (People who Use) Drugs has claimed over a million victims in the last two decades, every fatal overdose representing deep policy...
The Drug War is more brutal than ever. Overdose deaths are still shattering records, there’s talk of war with the cartels, increased penalti...
Harm reduction is an imperfect philosophy that serves as the only wedge between prohibition and what we all really want, which is a healthy,...
At Narcotica, we’ve often talked about how methadone is one of the most over-regulated substances on the planet. It’s not a perfect drug — n...
People have this conception that San Francisco’s streets are just overflowing with human shit and people injecting drugs in the open. Stereo...
A future where abortion drugs like mifepristone and misoprostol are trafficked just like fentanyl or methamphetamine or where birth control...
The United States sure loves to cage people. Incarceration statistics can be shocking, but they can be cited so often that they can lose the...
Certain celebrity authors want to help you accept that certain drug use is OK—and there’s nothing wrong with psychedelic exceptionalism, but...
No matter what the problem is, whether it’s fentanyl overdoses or mass shootings, the solution to all of our problems is always more money a...
For good reason, about 150 million people use cannabis, according to the World Health Organization. That’s around 3 percent of the global po...
Naltrexone, also known by its brand name, Vivitrol, is an opioid antagonist that kicks opioids off of opioid receptor in the brain, not unli...
Psychedelics and other drugs can trigger a condition called Hallucinogen Persisting Perception Disorder, a terrible name for a real conditio...
It’s easy to hate the massive pharmaceutical corporations that extract obscene profit from the healthcare system—and there are many, many re...
Imagine banning a chemical that we all make in our bodies. But that’s exactly where drug war logic takes us and why testosterone is Schedule...
Psychedelics are not exactly taking the same path that cannabis has taken to the mainstream, but there are some similarities. In the late ‘9...
On this episode, Narcotica co-hosts Zachary Siegel, Chris Moraff and Troy Farah interview each other, riffing on one question: Is the drug w...
Harm reduction programs like syringe access, supervised consumption or even just handing out condoms on the street, can be some of the only...
Booze is one of the most ancient and most prolific drugs in society, yet for some reason, it’s always placed in some separate category. Drug...
Over the past two decades, as fatal drug overdoses have risen precipitously, few professions have been hit harder by the crisis than the med...
These days, there isn’t an ailment some Silicon Valley-esque startup is trying to treat with psychedelics. Of course you have depression, an...
Nearly half the U.S. population now have access to adult-use cannabis. Marijuana is a medicine, if it’s cultivated or extracted right, and m...
Sex work is work, just like coal mining, professional sports and literally any job that involves physical labor. So why is a show about drug...
We’re truly living through a disaster. Drug overdose deaths rose nearly 30 percent in 2020 to a record high 93,000. This is no longer an “op...
One area where drug stigma especially persists, even among harm reduction advocates, is the prejudice against mothers and pregnant people wh...
Psychedelic drugs are well beyond the quote ‘renaissance’ stage and relatively recently entered a ‘gold rush’ as dozens of companies maneuve...
Few social justice groups have put in as much work to end the war on (people who use) drugs like the Drug Policy Alliance. Since 2000, DPA h...
For many people, psychedelic drugs like LSD or psilocybin are their first major introduction to a profoundly altered state of consciousness....
Our planet is in crisis, plagued by an increase in wildfires, floods, hurricanes, freak storms and outbreaks of disease. As a result, we’re...
Amid a wave of synthetic drugs in recent years, Kensington, Pennsylvania has emerged as the locus for a different kind of experimentation, t...
There’s a “twindemic” raging across the state of West Virginia: Covid-19 has collided with an outbreak of HIV and hepatitis C. If that’s not...
It’s kinda weird hearing people say “weed is mainstream” now, when merely possessing the plant stuff can still earn you serious consequences...
Maybe it seems like an obvious question, but why is certain drug use illegal in the first place? Don’t you, as a human being, have some bodi...
Dr. Carl Hart has long been known as America’s preeminent drug scientist. If you listen to our show regularly, you’ve probably heard of him....
On this episode, we discuss how Mexico became a flashpoint of the war on drugs, broader trends in American foreign policy and drug policy, a...
Most people know salvia as the weird psychedelic drug at head shops that you try once, have a bizarre, uncomfortable experience and never to...
Is there any class of people who receive more stigma, who get more shit and abuse for using drugs, than mothers? Probably not! For whatever...
Something that never gets said enough is that the drug war is racist. This is not an opinion any more than it is an opinion that the America...