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This episode of Drugs, Inc shows how cocaine makes it way from a Peruvian farm crap and travels 4,500 miles to reach its users. In the USA, over four million people regularly use cocaine. This powerful stimulant is worth more than gold, and every year Americans spend over $37 billion…
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Using an opioid for a pain relief drug has a long history in New York City, where they were introduced as unregulated medicine: doctors began prescribing morphine pills to housewives in the 1880s. Journalist Christopher Booker uncovers New York’s history with opioids – from plant-based morphine, opium and heroin to…
Fentanyl, Harm Reduction, Heroin, Methadone, Morphine, Opioid Crisis, Opioid Use Disorder, Oxycodone, Pharmaceuticals, Public Health
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In this story, we’ll peel back the layers, speaking to people from Harvard doctors to people selling crack, and from the addicts fighting for survival to those who have escaped their addiction and now work to help others. Furthermore, we aim to uncover the deeper question of how methodone mile…
Harm Reduction, Homelessness, Medication-Assisted Treatment, Methadone, Opioid Crisis, Personal Stories, Poverty, Public Health, Recovery, Sublocade, Suboxone, Vivitrol
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In this episode of High Society, we find out what’s making ecstasy so dangerous again, and how that danger can be reduced. Ecstasy is still one of the safest drugs to take, but last year, ecstasy-related deaths reached their highest level in a decade, and now it’s back in the…
Drug Trafficking, Ecstasy/MDMA, Empathogens, Hallucinogens, PMA & PMMA, Stimulant Use Disorder, Stimulants, Youth
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In this episode, Dr. Andrew Huberman discuss cannabis (aka marijuana), including the biological mechanisms underlying its effects on the mind and body, its known medical applications, its impact on libido, creativity, hunger, hormones and more. He also covers the known adverse health consequences of chronic and even acute (one-time) use…
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Ketamine has become the generation-defining drug for young Brits. A report from November 2020, stated 1-in-30 young people admitted to taking the drug in the past year – the highest number since records began and far more than other countries in Europe. The latest figures also suggest that ketamine is…
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Hamilton Morris meets with Timothy Wyllie, an artist, writer and architect best known for his role in founding a controversial religion called The Process Church, and whose life has been a continuous quest to understand the mysteries of his own consciousness. He then heads to India to see industrial ketamine…
Dissociative & Hallucinogen Drug Use Disorders, Dissociatives, Ketamine, Personal Stories, Prevention & Treatment, Science & Research
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Peter Santello creates “videos about a world the media fails to capture” (source). In this video, he travels to Kensington, Philadelphia to speak with a local man named Buddy Osborn, who reached out to him to tell him about “the horrific realities of open-air drug markets.” Buddy and his organization,…
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More than 100,000 Americans died of a drug overdose in 2021, the worst year on record. The newest wave of the overdose crisis involves man-made chemicals, including animal tranquilizers, that are being combined with fentanyl to make street drugs that are deadlier and more addictive. With access to an undisguised…
Benzodiazepines, Depressants, Dissociative & Hallucinogen Drug Use Disorders, Dissociatives, Drug Trafficking, Fentanyl, Harm Reduction, Naloxone, Non-Profits, Overdose, Public Health, Sedative, Hypnotic, or Anxiolytic Use Disorder, Sedatives, Tranquilizers, Xylazine
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Did you know that there are 1,500 homeless people living in tunnels below Las Vegas? Directly under the billion-dollar casinos, fancy night clubs and Michelin-star restaurants is a world that you wouldn’t believe is real. Until you go down there and see it for yourself. Drew Binsky teamed up with…