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Send us a Text Message.In this episode, I take a look at rapid (roadside) drug tests which are often used as probable cause for arrest. Police make up to 100k arrests every year using Roadside Drug tests with a failure rate high enough to requi
Send us a Text Message.Molly, Ecstasy and MDMA--different names for the same drug. MDMA is no longer restricted to underground rave culture. It is finding its way to the Dr.'s office and the therapist's couch. And it appears to be an incredibly
Send us a Text Message.If you want to stop using a drug in the United States, your only choice is often "cold turkey," a terrible name for an unnecessary risk that can often prove fatal if not properly treated. One alternative to this painful e
Send us a Text Message.In music it is called Purple Syrup, Sizzerp, or Lean. At the dope house it is called liquid codeine. At the doctor's office it is called Codeine with Promethazine. Regardless of where you get it, it is more popular today
Send us a Text Message.Every day in the United States possessions and cash are stolen from citizens who have committed no crime. They can't call the police because the police are responsible for the theft. Its called Civil Asset Forfeiture. In
Send us a Text Message.Kratom is a leaf from a tropical plant, often dried and crushed for easy shipment, then brewed into tea or swallowed in a gelcap by consumers, like you and me. Kratom is showing incredible potential for treating withdrawa
Send us a Text Message.What happens when we feel the spirit? Are we high? Are we faking it? Does a Mormon religious experience feel the same as a Pentecostal experience? Or a Baptist experience? Join me for a conversation with Dr. Michael Fergu
Send us a Text Message.Pure heroin currently costs up to $400 dollars per gram on the streets. But it only costs around $2 per gram to produce. The 40,000% profit margins go to street dealers and traffickers--the cops can't exactly sell it at a
Send us a Text Message.Honest answers about marijuana and its active ingredients. Marijuana doesn't actually contain any chemicals that get us high. But with a bit of chemistry--like lighting it on fire--we can produce psychoactive ingredients
Send us a Text Message.Power works, in part, through the creation and sustainment of cultural myth, and the US has no shortage of mythological identities which don't pan out when closely examined: Santa Clause, meritocracy, justice, delicious d
Send us a Text Message.This week I dive back into some philosophical theory related to why we are so prone to struggle with anxiety, addiction and alienation in today's world. Guy Debord wrote The Society of the Spectacle more than 50 years ago
Send us a Text Message.This week I dive back into some philosophical theory related to why we are so prone to struggle with anxiety, addiction and alienation in today's world. Guy Debord wrote The Society of the Spectacle more than 50 years ago
Send us a Text Message.C. Dreams, Dr. Christina Perez's moniker while incarcerated, joins me today to talk about addiction, recovery, reentry, education, stigma, social movement, reappropriation, colorism, plus she shares her story of doing int
Send us a Text Message.This week I revisit a topic I've discussed repeatedly on this show: the reported success rates of 12-Step programs like AA and NA. I talk about the reason these programs persist as the norm despite an odd lack of data to
Send us a Text Message.This week I talk about the medication shortages across the United States. Drugs used to treat ADHD, chronic pain, and other conditions have been in short supply lately for reasons unexplained. Different groups have blamed
Send us a Text Message.This week I wrap up a multi-part discussion of Foucault's theories of panoptic power, institutional knowledge, and discourses used to endorse awful ideas and beliefs about drugs and drug users. I also talk about Michel Fo
Send us a Text Message.Captured Words/Free Thoughts is an annual, non-profit publication packed with art, poetry and prose inspired and written inside US prisons. Every year a group of volunteers records some of the submissions in audio form to
Send us a Text Message.If we wanted to design a culture from the ground up to maximize both the potential and severity of addiction, we would build it exactly like the United States today. Once upon a time, humans received contentment and fulf
Send us a Text Message.This week I dive into neoliberalism and oligarchy, 2 systems the USA has repeatedly rejected despite their current resurgence of late. The war on drugs is part of a larger move to privatize public systems like medicine, p
Send us a Text Message.Why do humans have such an odd fascination with criminals and outlaws? What happened to all the kings and queens who used to be in charge of everything...where did they go? Why? And what does any of this have to do with d
Send us a Text Message.Have you ever thought, "dang, I just got out of work and I already dread going back tomorrow!"? Most of us have, and in response we did something to make ourselves feel better, something to take the edge off: we treated o
Send us a Text Message.This episode is all about America's unhealthily relationships with work and drugs. We live in a world where we are increasingly distracted and secluded, and our daily schedules often consist of punching a clock and return
Send us a Text Message.Colorado's state prison budget has grown by almost 1300% in the last 35 years; it's now more than a billion dollars-per-year. This week I talk to Christie Donner, founder of the Colorado Criminal Justice Reform Coalition.
Send us a Text Message.This week my partner Dr. Erin Boyce joins me to talk about one of her areas of study, attachment theory. We discuss childhood development, identity formation, the important of strong attachments to parental figures, authe
Send us a Text Message.This week I share a summary of my new book, The Spectacle of Punishment: Lessons from a Century of Prison Films. I discuss cinematic outlaws and lawmen, and I cover the three main prisons used in every movie: prison as a
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