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Dealing With Drugs: A Hot Press Podcast

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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...

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Dealing With Drugs: Episode 5 02.06.2026 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 A...

Dealing With Drugs: Episode 4 23.04.2026 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...

Dealing With Drugs: Episode 3 18.02.2026 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, incl...

Dealing With Drugs: Episode 2 24.10.2025 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 answers from Daniel Brombacher, Director of the Observatory of Organised Crime in Europe. We talk to celebrated Irish musician Damien Dempsey about the friends and family members he's lost to heroin and cocaine; preview Netflix's new cannabis industry drama,  Amst...

Dealing With Drugs: Episode 1 05.09.2025 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;...