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Hospital-Based Addiction Consult Services

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2025/08/21

On this edition of Free Culture Radio: Addiction Consult Services.Hospital-based addiction consult services have been described as an emerging model of care for hospitalized patients who may have a substance use disorder. To learn more about ACS I spoke recently with Doc...

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World Drug Report 2025

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2025/07/17

On this edition of Free Culture Radio: World Drug Report 2025. The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime released the 2025 edition of its annual World Drug Report on June 26. Whether or not one regards the World Drug Report as a compendium of selected statistics and ...

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Beyond Punishment

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2025/06/19

On this edition of Free Culture Radio: Beyond Punishment.The Global Commission on Drug Policy released a report recently entitled Beyond Punishment: From Criminal Justice Responses to Drug Policy Reform, which exposes how punitive drug policies have driven mass incarcera...

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Tokin' Female

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2025/04/17

On this edition of Free Culture Radio: Tokin’ Female.Host Doug McVay is joined in conversation with Sabrina Fendrick, drug policy activist and author of Tokin’ Female: Women, Weed, and the War on Prohibition.

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It Takes A Village

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2025/03/20

On this edition of Free Culture Radio: It Takes a Village.Host Doug McVay is joined in conversation with Andrew Grover and Ethan Bulisco of Youth Villages Oregon.

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Trying to Make Sense of It All

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2025/02/20

On this edition of Free Culture Radio: Trying to Make Sense of It All.It’s 2025. Public health and healthcare systems under threat, scientific and medical research brought to a standstill, agencies advancing US interests around the world being dismantled, border hysteria p...

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Harm Reduction and the Regulation of Drugs

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2024/12/19

On this edition of Free Culture Radio: Harm Reduction and the Regulation of Drugs. The Sixth European Harm Reduction Conference was held recently in Warsaw, Poland, bringing together people who use drugs, practitioners, advocates, policy experts, and public officials from ...

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Decolonizing Coca

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2024/11/21

On this edition of Free Culture Radio: Decolonizing Coca.The nations of Colombia and Bolivia held an event at the United Nations in New York on November 7th to challenge the negative connotation attributed to the coca plant. The event was entitled "Beyond Declassification:...

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A Conversation with NORML Board Chair Dan Viets

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2024/08/22

On this edition of Free Culture Radio: A Conversation with NORML Board Chair Dan Viets. This month on Free Culture host Doug McVay is joined in conversation with attorney and civil rights advocate Dan Viets, Chair of the Board of Directors of the National Organization for ...

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A Journey of a Thousand Miles Begins in Ireland

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2024/07/18

On this edition of Free Culture Radio: A Journey of a Thousand Miles Begins in Ireland. The government of the Republic of Ireland formed a Citizens’ Assembly on Drugs Use in 2023 to quote consider the legislative, policy and operational changes Ireland could make to signif...

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The FDA's Agony Over Ecstasy

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2024/06/20

On this edition of Free Culture Radio: FDA’s Agony Over Ecstasy. The Food and Drug Administration’s Psychopharmacologic Drugs Advisory Committee met recently and rejected a new drug application for MDMA-Assisted Therapy which had been submitted by Lykos Therapeutics. The Co...

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Medical Cannabis in the Time of Corporate Legalization

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2024/05/16

On this edition of Free Culture Radio: Medical Cannabis in the Time of Corporate Legalization. Host Doug McVay is joined in conversation by Anthony Taylor, co-founder and Legislative Director of Compassionate Oregon.

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Through The Policy Loophole

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2024/03/21

On this edition of Free Culture Radio: Through the Policy Loophole.Drugs, like so many other things, were much simpler in the Twentieth Century. On this month’s Free Culture Radio, host Doug McVay is joined in conversation with Alyssa Harlow, PhD, Assistant Professor of Cl...

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De Facto or De Jure

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2024/02/22

On this edition of Free Culture Radio: De Facto or De Jure.The drug war is fundamentally unsustainable. We keep throwing more and more money into the effort, made all kinds of minor repairs to the system to try and keep it going like treatment alternatives to incarceration...

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The Harm Reduction Gap

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2024/01/18

On this edition of Free Culture Radio: The Harm Reduction Gap. Sheila Vakharia, PhD, MSW, Deputy Director of the Department of Research and Academic Engagement at the Drug Policy Alliance joins host Doug McVay to talk about her new book, The Harm Reduction Gap: Helping Indi...

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Getting On Track

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2023/12/21

On this edition of Free Culture Radio: Getting On Track. In 2019, the UN’s Commission on Narcotic Drugs issued a Ministerial Declaration on drugs, which laid down the main objectives of the international community in addressing the world drug situation for a 10-year period...

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Drug Use During Pandemic

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2023/11/16

On this edition of Free Culture Radio: Drug Use During Pandemic. We hear from Doctor Sheila Vakharia, Deputy Director of Research and Academic Engagement at the Drug Policy Alliance, on the Health Impacts of State Policies, Drug Decriminalization and Service Access. Plus a ...

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Boiling Point

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2023/10/19

The United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs will hold a high-level ‘mid-term review’ in March of 2024 to take stock of progress made and challenges remaining for the international drug control regime. In preparation for this, the International Drug Policy Consortium hel...

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International Development and the War on Drugs

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2023/09/21

On this edition of Free Culture Radio: International Development and the War on Drugs. We’re joined by Sanho Tree, Director of the Drug Policy Project at the Institute for Policy Studies, to discuss Colombia, development aid, and the war on drugs. Plus, Harm Reduction Inte...

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Bridges To Change

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2023/08/17

On this edition of Free Culture Radio: Treatment, Recovery, and the Impact of Measure 110. We’re joined in conversation by Monta Knudson, Executive Director of Bridges To Change, to discuss treatment, recovery, and the impact of the Measure 110, the Drug Addiction Treatmen...

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