Podcasts by On Drugs
Each week, On Drugs looks through the lenses of history, pop culture and personal experience to understand how drugs have shaped our world. Because even if it’s just caffeine or ibuprofen, there’s a good chance you’re on drugs right now.
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S2 E11 The Spell of the Poppy from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Opioid drugs have claimed a shocking number of lives across North America in recent years, as people fall victim to overdose. While the intensity of crisis is new, our relationship with opiates — a...
ListenReplay: Miltown: A forgotten pharma game changer from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
It's just one more week until the season two finale of On Drugs, but in the meantime, enjoy this favourite from last season. It's all about Miltown, a drug that is mostly forgotten today, but helpe...
ListenS2 E10 Prison, On Drugs from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
This episode goes behind bars to learn how Canadian prisons form a nexus of drug crime, trade and addiction. We'll meet people in prison because of crimes committed in the throes of addiction and l...
ListenEXTRA: Bill Blair on implementing cannabis legalization from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
A feature interview with Bill Blair, the former Toronto Police Chief now in charge of implementing the federal government's cannabis legalization law. He reflects on the transition from drug law en...
ListenS2 E9 The Trouble with Rehab from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Addiction treatment and recovery is a 37 billion dollar industry in North America. Yet despite decades of research and practice, there's still no surefire way to get people clear of substance depen...
ListenS2 E8 Narcotic Farm from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
The Narcotic Farm in Lexington Kentucky played a major part in shaping the culture around mid-century heroin use in the United States, as well as our understanding of the science of addiction. This...
ListenREPLAY: Music, On Drugs from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
We're hard at work putting together the next new episode, but in the meantime, here's a favourite from last season. It's deep look at the intersection of music, drugs and creativity. Enjoy.
ListenS2 E7 More cannabis in Colorado from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Host Geoff Turner is back in Colorado for part two of his road trip to see what Canada can learn from four years of legal cannabis in the Rocky Mountain State.
ListenExtra: check out Personal Best from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
We're busy working on next week’s show, but I wanted to share another CBC Original Podcast I think you might like. It’s called Personal Best. I wouldn’t be doing it justice to call it a self improv...
ListenS2 E6 Cannabis in Colorado from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Cannabis will be legal and regulated across Canada later this year, but Colorado has a four year head start on ending prohibition. Host Geoff Turner travelled to the Rocky Mountain State to see how...
ListenS2 E5 Human guinea pigs from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Before pharmaceuticals find their way to your medicine chest, they are subjected to batteries of tests for safety and efficacy. Those tests begin with animals, but eventually scientists need to try...
ListenEXTRA: Dan Snarr on Mormon culture and drugs from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
In our episode on Utah, Mormonism and drugs, you met Dan Snarr, the former mayor of Murray Utah. He told us about losing his son to opioid overdose. Here's a full length version of Geoff's conversa...
ListenS2 E4 Utah, Mormons and addiction from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
There’s an expectation that members of the Church of Latter Day Saints will live with chastity and modesty in order to secure a place in heaven. And yet, Utah, the heart of Mormonism, has one of th...
ListenS2 E3 Caffeine: a buzzed history from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
People have been using caffeine in one form or another for thousands of years. And for more than a century, people have been fretting about what it does to our health and our moral condition. This ...
ListenS2 E2 Cannabis: from prohibition to legalization from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
This episode of On Drugs explores how cannabis went from unknown, illegal and vilified to the present day, where it's considered medicine and the foundation of a multi-billion dollar industry.
ListenOn Drugs Extra: Ayahuasca in the jungle from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
We launched season two of On Drugs with an episode about how people are using psychedelics in search of spiritual enlightenment. One of the people we met was Tanya Kammonen. Tanya and I spoke at le...
ListenS2 E1 Psychedelics and Spirituality from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
In this episode of On Drugs, we explore the connection between psychedelic drugs like LSD and psilocybin and the transcendent feelings and perceptions that users report. Ethnobotanist Wade Davis sh...
ListenOn Drugs Season 2 Preview from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
If you've been craving a fix of the CBC original podcast, On Drugs, the wait is nearly over. Season 2 launches February 13. Here's a chance to meet the people who put it all together and to hear so...
ListenIntroducing: How Do You Sleep at Night? + Season 2 Coming Soon! from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
How Do You Sleep at Night? is a great podcast from the team at ABC about people who live their lives in the face of judgement. The show explores the different moral codes we all live by. Because no...
ListenGender, On Drugs from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
The drugs we choose - legal and illicit - and the ways we use them, are at least partly determined by gender expectations. This episode explores how those expectations affect our relationships wit...
ListenStronger, smarter, better, On Drugs from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
From athletes pumping steroids to tech entrepreneurs microdosing LSD, what happens when people use drugs to make themselves stronger, smarter and faster than their normal healthy selves?
ListenFun, On Drugs from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
If most recreational drug users do it because it feels good, why is pleasure always left out of policy conversations about drugs?
ListenMiltown, On Drugs from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
In this episode of On Drugs, it's the story of a very important drug that you've probably never heard of. The Drug is called Miltown and it changed the world of psychiatric medicine forever.
ListenExtra: Addiction and Rat Park from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
We explore the topic of drug addiction and how to think about it in this extended interview with Bruce Alexander
ListenWar, On Drugs from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
From berzerkers on mushrooms, to Nazis on meth and Iraq vets on ecstasy, armies and soldiers have used drugs to fight, cope with and recover from war since ancient times.
ListenSex, On Drugs from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
The relationship people have with drugs is complicated and a little bit messy, but not as messy as the relationship people have had with sex throughout history. Combine the two and things get inter...
ListenRace, On Drugs from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Drugs don't exist in a vacuum. In many cases, they've been used to prop up mythologies around race and justify discriminatory policies against already struggling communities.
ListenEXTRA: Music and Drugs from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
We dig deeper into our conversation about the historical intersection between drugs and music with author Martin Torgoff.
ListenMusic, On Drugs from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
The connection between drugs and rock and roll is a comic and tragic cliche. On Drugs gets past the cliches and explores the intersection of drugs and music from classical to hip hop.
ListenPain, On Drugs from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Of all the reasons we use drugs, the management and suppression of pain is one of the most fundamental. And yet for all the advances in medication, our relationship with pain is still fraught with ...
ListenOn Drugs trailer from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Each week, On Drugs looks through the lenses of history, pop culture and personal experience to understand how drugs have shaped our world.
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Each week, On Drugs looks through the lenses of history, pop culture and personal experience to understand how drugs have shaped our world.
ListenOn Drugs trailer from 2017-06-09T12:00
Each week, On Drugs looks through the lenses of history, pop culture and personal experience to understand how drugs have shaped our world.
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