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Evidence Still Matters

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2025/11/20

On this edition of Free Culture Radio: Evidence Still Matters #AMERSA2025The Association for Multidisciplinary Education and Research on Substance use and Addiction, AMERSA, held its 49th annual national conference November 13-15 right here in my home town of Portland, O...

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Keeping The Faith

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2025/10/16

On this edition of Free Culture Radio: Keeping the Faith.Host Doug McVay is joined in conversation by Hill Brown, Southern Director of Faith In Harm Reduction. The Principles of Harm Reduction to which Hill refers in our interview can be found at the National Harm Reduc...

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Barriers to Treatment

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2025/09/18

On this edition of Free Culture Radio: Barriers to Treatment.Host Doug McVay is joined in conversation with Marlene Lira, MPH, Senior Director of Research at WorkIt Health, and one of the co-authors of Pharmacy Barriers to Receiving Buprenorphine Among Patients Undergoin...

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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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Scotland the Brave

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2025/05/22

On this edition of Free Culture Radio: Scotland the Brave.On Wednesday May 7 2025, the UK Parliament’s Scottish Affairs Committee held a hearing entitled: Problem drug use in Scotland follow-up: Glasgow’s Safer Drug Consumption Facility. The Committee was looking at the ...

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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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Human Rights and Drug Policies in an Evolving Global...

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2025/01/16

On this edition of Free Culture Radio: Human Rights and Drug Policies in an Evolving Global Paradigm. The Sixth European Harm Reduction Conference was held recently in Warsaw, Poland. In one of the sessions, entitled “navigating human rights in drug policy reform,” panelis...

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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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Recovery and Community

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2024/10/17

On this edition of Free Culture Radio: Recovery and Community.According to its website, the Recovery Cafe Network, established in 2016, is “comprised of Recovery Cafés committed to serving people who have experienced trauma and the results of trauma like homelessness, subs...

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Kicking Nixon Around

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2024/09/19

On this edition of Free Culture Radio: A conversation with drug policy activist and researcher Kurtis Hanna. In 2002, to celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of the Shafer Commission, I did some research on the report and Nixon. Back then, to listen to any of the Nixon tape...

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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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Did The Biden Pot Pardons Go Far Enough?

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2024/04/18

On this edition of Free Culture Radio: Did the Biden Pot Pardons Go Far Enough? Students for Sensible Drug Policy kicked off its #420WeekOfUnity with a news conference on April 15 entitled Whom Did the Biden Pardons Help—And Did They Go Far Enough? We hear from SSDP Execut...

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