Hot Press launches new Dealing With Drugs podcast - Episode 1 out now

Hot Press has officially launched its new podcast series Dealing With Drugs.

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.

Firm believers that prohibition and punishing people don’t work, we want to see some drugs legalised and others decriminalised.

From heroin, ketamine and cannabis to MDMA, LSD and synthetics, we’ll be teasing it all out in our new monthly harm reduction podcast hosted by Stuart Clark.

For the series’ first instalment, Clark chats with Hot Press contributor and drug consultant Tony Duffin to explore the issue of drug use on the frontlines in Ukraine, ranging from access to drugs, responses from the Ukrainian government, and harm reduction efforts, or lack thereof, for military personnel.

Secondly, he is joined by Scottish cult-author Irvine Welsh to speak about his new book Men In Love, Shane McGowan, and the evolution of his drug use in the past years.

To wrap up the episode, director of the Tacoma needle exchange programme Paul Lakhovsky discusses harm reduction in the US under the Trump administration, US health secretary Robert F. Kennedy and more.

Hear about all this and more in Dealing with Drugs episode one, produced by Stuart Clark and edited by Flo Laurent.

Check it out below: