Sex & Drugs
18 Feb 26

New Dealing With Drugs podcast episode out now

New <I>Dealing With Drugs</I> podcast episode out now

Max McCusker in 2024, during the Team Ireland Paris 2024 team announcement for Swimming. Photo: David Fitzgerald/Sportsfile

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The latest edition of Dealing With Drugs: A Hot Press Podcast features a blockbuster interview with Noel Browne who spent 41 years in the Irish police tackling the country's most dangerous gangs. Plus, Irish Olympic swimmer Max McCusker tells us about his participation in this summer’s inaugural Enhanced Games in Las Vegas and activist Peter Sarosi on the recent rave demonstration against Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán and his crackdown on both people with drug dependency issues and the organisations trying to help them.

Dealing With Drugs returns with its third instalment today, featuring an interview with Noel Browne, who spent 41 years in the Irish police.

Over his conversation with Stuart Clark, Browne explores the evolution of organised crime in Ireland through his own experience in tackling gang and drug crimes, as well as drug cartels and cocaine trades in Columbia, which he observed through his work as a Garda Liaison Officer.

Additionally, Hot Press' Lucy O'Toole speaks with Irish Olympic swimmer Max McCusker about his participation in this summer’s inaugural Enhanced Games in Las Vegas, the scientific purposes behind the games and the financial difficulties faced by professional athletes.

Rounding up the episode, Stuart Clark and drug policy expert Tony Duffin invite activist Peter Sarosi behind the Hot Press mic to examine his recent rave demonstration against Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán and his war on drugs policies, the crackdown on drugs and harm reduction in the country, and the counter-measures taken by activists.

Hear about all this and more on the new episode of Dealing With Drugs, out now.

This episode was produced by Stuart Clark and Tony Duffin and edited by Flo Laurent.

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