60 acast.com Dealing With Drugs: A Hot Press Podcast https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/dealing-with-drugs-a-hot-press-podcast en Hot Press Drugs,decriminalisation,legalisation,weed,lsd,mdma,Hot Press,stuart clark,cannabis,ketamine,heroin,harm reduction,overdose Hot Press 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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]]> 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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]]> false Hot Press info+68bb10bba4a9a4d9458db36d@mg-eu.acast.com 68bb10bba4a9a4d9458db36d dealing-with-drugs-a-hot-press-podcast episodic https://assets.pippa.io/shows/cover/1757089786416-2352427a-9c9b-4fa0-a5b7-134717752457.jpeg https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/dealing-with-drugs-a-hot-press-podcast Dealing With Drugs: A Hot Press Podcast Dealing With Drugs: Episode 3 Dealing With Drugs: Episode 3 Wed, 18 Feb 2026 04:00:00 GMT 54:40 69934b912a42aa7d9bc38bb0 true https://www.hotpress.com/podcast 69934b912a42aa7d9bc38bb0 68bb10bba4a9a4d9458db36d full 1 3 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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]]> 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 Dealing With Drugs: Episode 2 Fri, 24 Oct 2025 11:00:00 GMT 44:50 68fab77a966457126cfbea28 true https://www.hotpress.com/podcast 68fab77a966457126cfbea28 68bb10bba4a9a4d9458db36d full 2 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, 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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]]> 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, 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 Dealing With Drugs: Episode 1 Fri, 05 Sep 2025 16:43:55 GMT 39:38 68bb110185f43428250c3dd4 true https://www.hotpress.com/podcast 68bb110185f43428250c3dd4 68bb10bba4a9a4d9458db36d full 1 1 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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]]> 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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