Talking with your family about drugs - Live at Latitude 2021
A live episode! In front of a lovely crowd at the awesome Latitude Festival, back in July 2021. Suzi Gage headed to Suffolk and was joined b...
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Say Why To Drugs
The internet is full of misinformation about recreational drugs - both legal and illegal. Dr Suzi Gage, a psychologist interested in understanding associations between substance use and ment...
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Spiking - with Dr Lata Gautam
There have been many reports about drink spiking in recent weeks and months. Suzi is joined by Dr Lata Gautam from Anglia Ruskin University...
Maternal Drinking
Say Why to Drugs is back, as Suzi emerges bleary eyed from the first year of being a mum, what better time to talk about alcohol use and mot...
Drugs and Sex - recorded live at Vault Festival
A live episode recorded earlier in the year in London at Vault Festival, in association with Child.org. Suzi speaks to Alex Aldridge. Alex i...
Drug regulation - with Transform
In this episode Suzi talks to James Nicholls, the CEO of an organisation called Transform, who are a think-tank working in drug policy refor...
Alcohol in pregnancy
We're back (briefly)!! In the first episode of a new little run, Suzi speaks to epidemiologists Dr Kate Fleming and Dr Luisa Zuccolo about w...
The Secret Drug Addict
In this episode Suzi speaks to the Secret Drug Addict - a twitter and instagram user who VICE called 'twitter's most helpful anonymous accou...
Drug Education - with The DSM Foundation
In this episode Dr Suzi Gage is joined by Fiona Spargo-Mabbs and Sarah Birkett from the DSM Foundation. Fiona and her husband set up the fou...
Say Why To Drugs Book Launch
This episode was recorded live at the Say Why to Drugs book launch at Foyles bookshop, in Bristol, on 24th January 2020. Suzi is in conversa...
Say Why To Drugs - The Book!
Happy book-day to me! Happy book-day to me! Happy birthday to Say Why To Drugs the booook, Happy book-day to me! Luckily for you I decided a...
Drugs and Music, live at Smithdown Road festival
Recorded earlier this year at Smithdown Road Festival, a free music festival in South Liverpool, this episode sees Suzi chat to a panel of g...
Drugs and Music, with Adam Ficek
Adam Ficek is probably best known as the drummer in Pete Docherty's post-Libertines band Babyshambles. But as well as a very successful musi...
CBD, with Dr Amir Englund
Cannabidiol, or CBD, is a compound found in cannabis. In recent times it's began to be found on our high streets, available in everything fr...
Kratom, with Dr Oliver Grundmann
Suzi Gage is joined by researcher Dr Oliver Grundmann, from the University of Florida, to talk about kratom - a leaf from the plant Mitragyn...
Mescaline, with Mike Jay
Say Why to Drugs returns! In this episode Suzi chats to author Mike Jay about mescaline, arguably the first psychedelic.Jay details the dual...
Ask me anything! #2
Researcher Suzi Gage answers a second set of questions that listeners have sent in - topics covered range from discussion of legislation - a...
Ask me anything! #1
Researcher Suzi Gage answers questions that listeners have sent in - topics covered range from whether the podcasts are aimed at teenagers t...
E-Cigarettes - UPDATED, with Professor Linda Bauld
Suzi chats to Professor Linda Bauld from the University of Edinburgh about e-cigarettes and vaping. Linda provides an update on what's chang...
Women and addiction, with Jenny Valentish
Dr Suzi Gage chats to journalist and author Jenny Valentish about her book Woman of Substances. The conversation covers Jenny's own experien...
How do drugs affect the brain? LIVE with Dr Carl Roberts
After quite a hiatus, SWTD returns. This live episode was recorded in front of an audience of University of Liverpool Psychology students. S...