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Dealing With Drugs: A Hot Press Podcast

Hot Press

Health & Fitness

Society & Culture

Frequency: 1 episode/62d. Total Eps: 7

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 out all out in our new monthly harm reduction podcast hosted by Stuart Clark.

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Dealing With Drugs: Episode 7

Season 1 · Episode 7

Monday, September 14, 2026 • Duration 57:25

In the new Dealing With Drugs, Pete Doherty talks about the Babyshambles reunion, Shane MacGowan, Amy Winehouse and the drug that’s changed his life for the better. Plus, Alasdair Gill on his zero punches pulled new book, Knives And Spoons: A Chef’s Story Of Kitchens, Addictions And Mayhem, and a blockbuster interview with Lynn Ruane, the Irish senator with lived experience who makes the case for drug decriminalisation – and tells us about her sweary encounter with Conan O'Brien!

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Dealing With Drugs: Episode 6

Season 1 · Episode 6

Thursday, July 16, 2026 • Duration 01:00:49

In the latest Dealing With Drugs, Fiona Patten talks about founding the Australian Sex Party – election slogan: “You come first!” – and the work she’s done around drug policy reform, assisted dying and abortion clinic exclusion zones; we meet Jason Kew, the former senior British policeman who’s now a leading harm reduction campaigner and has been on a crack pipe crusade; and hear words of wisdom from Harry Shapiro, the Bob Dylan, Jeff Beck and Jimi Hendrix biographer who's also the man behind online information service, DrugWise.

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

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Dealing With Drugs: Episode 5

Season 1 · Episode 5

Tuesday, June 2, 2026 • Duration 53:30

“Five minutes to evacuate…” In the new Dealing With Drugs, Tatyana Sleiman from the Skoun Lebanese Addiction Center tells us about living, working and providing harm reduction services in a warzone; we talk Trump, Robert Kennedy Jr., psychedelics, the bombing of supposed ‘narco boats’, consumption rooms and the perfect drug policy with Dr. Kasia Malinowska from the Open Society Foundations; and André Celinsky on the fight for sensible drug policy in Canada. Plus, why everyone should watch Steve Coogan in

Legends!

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

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Dealing With Drugs: Episode 4

Season 1 · Episode 4

Thursday, April 23, 2026 • Duration 45:35

In the new Dealing With Drugs: A Hot Press Podcast, we ask, “What the hell is going on with marijuana?” – and get the answers from Ethan Nadelmann who’s spent over 40 years working to end the war on drugs.

George Soros, Donald J. Trump and New York Times op-eds all feature as part of the lively discussion.

Plus, we preview stoner drug comedy, Pizza Movie, and talk to the Secret Drug Addict about his new book, Diary Of A Secret Drug Addict: Addiction, Dependence and Recovery. An Ex-User’s Guide To Breaking Free, which includes his time working for Creation Records at the height of Britpop.

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Dealing With Drugs: Episode 3

Season 1 · Episode 3

Wednesday, February 18, 2026 • Duration 54:40

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.

Later, Noel took his expertise global as Garda Liaison Officer in South America, working in Colombia at the sharp end of the cocaine trade.

He helped disrupt multi-million euro shipments, including the €157 million MV Mattews seizure.

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.

Produced by Stuart Clark and Tony Duffin. Edited by Flo Laurent

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Dealing With Drugs: Episode 2

Episode 2

Friday, October 24, 2025 • Duration 44:50

In episode two of our Dealing With Drugs podcast, we ask, "What is really going on with the international drug trade?" and get the answersfrom Daniel Brombacher, Director of the Observatory of Organised Crime in Europe. We talk to celebrated Irish musician Damien Dempseyabout the friends and family members he's lost to heroin and cocaine; preview Netflix's new cannabis industrydrama, Amsterdam Empire; and investigate the crack down on drug use in Russia and the Kremlin's draconian banning of harm reduction organisations.

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Dealing With Drugs: Episode 1

Season 1 · Episode 1

Friday, September 5, 2025 • Duration 39:38

In the first action-packed episode of our new Dealing With Drugs podcast, we find out about widespread drug use by soldiers on the Ukrainian frontline; talk to Irvine Welsh about acid house, the addictive nature of modern life, Shane MacGowan, Irish literary heroes and what Sick Boy, Renton, Spud and Begbie are up to in the brilliant Trainspotting sequel, Men In Love; and hear how Donald Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are proving hazardous to America’s health.

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