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Spiritual Practice and Mindfulness March 26, 2023

Home Is Within You

A Memoir of Recovery and Redemption

Nadia Davis

Hosted by Elizabeth Cronin
Home Is Within You As a young Latina and Native American lawyer and former wife of California’s attorney general and treasurer, Nadia Davis has long been subjected to public scrutiny …

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Political Science March 16, 2023

The Informal Regulation of Criminal Markets in Latin America

Hernán Flom

Hosted by Lilly Goren
Political Scientist Hernán Flom has written a fascinating and nuanced analysis of how the criminal drug markets operate in Argentina and Brazil. Instead of tracking the path that illegal drugs …
Russian and Eurasian Studies March 6, 2023

Mixing Medicines

The Global Drug Trade and Early Modern Russia

Clare Griffin

Hosted by Erika Monahan
Clare Griffin's book Mixing Medicines: The Global Drug Trade and Early Modern Russia (McGill-Queen's UP, 2022) introduces the reader to the dynamic and complex world of early modern Russian medical drugs, from …
Drugs, Addiction and Recovery February 13, 2023

How Do We Treat Opioid Addiction?

A Discussion with Mark Parrino

Mark Parrino

Hosted by Emily Dufton
Mark Parrino has been involved with the delivery of health care and treatment for opioid use disorder (OUD) since 1974. As the president of the American Association for the Treatment …
Literature February 2, 2023

White Flag

Judy L. Mandel

Hosted by Deidre Tyler
Cheryl said many times that "I'm done with that life, I'll never go back to it." But she did. When her Aunt Judy finds her in jail after two years …
Medicine January 27, 2023

Habit Forming

Drug Addiction in America, 1776-1914

Elizabeth Kelly Gray

Hosted by Rachel Pagones
Habitual drug use in the United States is at least as old as the nation itself. Elizabeth Kelly Gray's book Habit Forming: Drug Addiction in America, 1776-1914 (Oxford UP, 2023) traces the …
Russian and Eurasian Studies January 11, 2023

Cigarettes and Soviets

Smoking in the USSR

Tricia Starks

Hosted by Daniel Peris
Seeing cigarette smoking as a cultural phenomenon of Western modernity is perhaps easier when the test case is outside the US where the narrative is dominated by Big Bad Tobacco and …
Critical Theory January 6, 2023

A Sense of Brutality

Philosophy after Narco-Culture

Carlos Alberto Sánchez

Hosted by Pamela Fuentes
Contemporary popular culture is riddled with references to Mexican drug cartels, narcos, and drug trafficking. In the United States, documentary filmmakers, journalists, academics, and politicians have taken note of the …
Almost Good Catholics January 1, 2023

Divine Intoxication

A Discussion about Alcoholism, Grace, Sainthood, and Women in the Church

Heather King

Hosted by Krzysztof Odyniec
Author Heather King discusses her journey from the alcoholic abyss to redemption and new life (which she described in her book, Parched, 2006), St. Thérèse of Lisieux and the Little …
Medicine November 4, 2022

Drugs and the FDA

Safety, Efficacy, and the Public's Trust

Mikkael A. Sekeres

Hosted by Galina Limorenko
How the FDA was shaped by public health crises and patient advocacy, told against a background of the contentious hearings on the breast cancer drug Avastin. Food and Drug Administration …
Mexican Studies October 31, 2022

Mexico's Human Rights Crisis

Alejandro Anaya-Muñoz and Barbara Frey

Hosted by Ari Barbalat
Lawless elements are ascendant in Mexico, as evidenced by the operations of criminal cartels engaged in human and drug trafficking, often with the active support or acquiescence of government actors …
American West October 19, 2022

Crush

The Triumph of California Wine

John Briscoe

Hosted by Stephen Hausmann
In 1910, the future of California wine looked dim. Beset by crises ranging from earthquakes to insect infestations, and with momentum moving toward prohibition, the nascent industry seemed dead on …
Drugs, Addiction and Recovery October 12, 2022

Opium's Orphans

The 200-Year History of the War on Drugs

P. E. Caquet

Hosted by Steve Beitler
The global war on drugs began some 150 years before US President Richard Nixon launched the current chapter of America’s drug war in 1971. In Opium’s Orphans: The 200-Year History …
Canadian Studies October 3, 2022

The Psychedelic World of Hollywood Hospital

A Discussion with Erika Dyck

Erika Dyck

Hosted by Greg Marchildon
In this podcast episode, Greg Marchildon interviews Erika Dyck on the book she co-authored with Jesse Donaldson on an unusual chapter in Canada’s medical history. Entitled The Acid Room: The …
Drugs, Addiction and Recovery September 22, 2022

Corrections in Ink

A Memoir

Keri Blakinger

Hosted by Joel Tscherne
Corrections in Ink (St. Martin's Press, 2022) is an electric and unforgettable memoir about a young woman's journey-from the ice rink, to addiction and a prison sentence, to the newsroom-emerging …
Drugs, Addiction and Recovery September 16, 2022

The Psychedelic Handbook

A Practical Guide to Psilocybin, LSD, Ketamine, MDMA, and DMT/Ayahuasca

Rick Strassman

Hosted by Geert Slabbekoorn
Entering the world of psychedelic drugs can be challenging, and many aren't sure where to start. As research continues to expand and legalization looms on the horizon for psychedelics like …
Food September 14, 2022

Coffee the Magical Elixir

Facts That Will Astound and Perk You Up

Sanjiv Chopra

Hosted by Deidre Tyler
Today I talked to Sanjiv Chopra about his book Coffee the Magical Elixir: Facts That Will Astound and Perk You Up (Bookbaby, 2021) 2.25 billion cups of coffee are consumed globally everyday …
American West September 6, 2022

Brewing a Boycott

How a Grassroots Coalition Fought Coors and Remade American Consumer Activism

Allyson P. Brantley

Hosted by Stephen Hausmann
Before the craft beer revolution, Coors was a hot commodity. Impossible to find outside a few states in the West, the beer had a level of "cool" that only comes …
Darts & Letters September 1, 2022

The Heroin Clinic

Medical Grade Heroin Given Out Legally to Users

Hosted by Gordon Katic
At Crosstown Clinic, doctors are turning addiction treatment on its head: they’re prescribing heroin-users the very drug they’re addicted to. This is the story of one clinic’s quest to remove …
Public Health August 11, 2022

Big Vape

The Incendiary Rise of Juul

Jamie Ducharme

Hosted by Caleb Zakarin
It began with a smoke break. James Monsees and Adam Bowen were two ambitious graduate students at Stanford, and in between puffs after class they dreamed of a way to …