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On Drugs looks through the lenses of history, pop culture and personal experience to understand how drugs have shaped our world.
Radio On Drugs April 6, 2018
The opioid overdose crisis was thousands of years in the making
Radio On Drugs May 8, 2018
Think prison forces an end to drug addiction? Think again
Radio On Drugs April 25, 2018
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Can this small town rebound as Canada's cannabis capital?
Radio On Drugs April 20, 2018
Rehab, recovery and the history of 12-step thinking
Radio On Drugs April 17, 2018
What if drug addicts went to a farm instead of a prison? It happened in Kentucky.
Radio On Drugs April 10, 2018

Why legal weed doesn't root out illegal grow-ops

Radio On Drugs March 27, 2018

What Canada can learn about legal pot from Colorado

Radio On Drugs October 16, 2018

Clinical drug trials: The strange world of human guinea pigs

Radio On Drugs March 13, 2018

Overdose in Mormon country: An alternative tour of Utah

Radio On Drugs March 6, 2018

How caffeine became the world's most widely used psychoactive drug

Radio On Drugs February 27, 2018

The long, strange story of pot prohibition in Canada

Radio On Drugs February 21, 2018

Just say no: How some communities are fighting pot legalization

Radio On Drugs February 20, 2018

Psychedelics and Spirituality

Radio On Drugs February 13, 2018

Get ready for a new season of On Drugs

Radio On Drugs February 8, 2018

Time to binge on season one of On Drugs

Radio On Drugs September 8, 2017

Gender, On Drugs

Radio On Drugs August 31, 2017

Stronger, smarter, happier - what if a drug could make you a better version of yourself?

Radio On Drugs August 23, 2017

Drugs for fun: why do we feel so bad about feeling good?

Radio On Drugs August 14, 2017

Miltown: a game-changing drug you've probably never heard of

Radio On Drugs August 7, 2017

City on drugs: the dark pull of Vancouver's Downtown Eastside

Radio On Drugs August 1, 2017

Spanish fly, chemsex and 'female Viagra:' why drugs and sex don't always mix

Radio On Drugs July 24, 2017

Drugs: What's race got to do with it?

Radio On Drugs July 17, 2017

Drugs, more drugs, and rock & roll

Radio On Drugs July 11, 2017

Opioids, addiction and our troubled history with pain

Radio On Drugs July 4, 2017

Nazis on meth, army vets on ecstasy: how drugs shape warfare

Radio On Drugs July 3, 2017

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