The War on Drugs

A podcast by Lava for Good Podcasts

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27 Episodes

  1. Introducing: Wrongful Conviction with Maggie Freleng Season 4 - TRAILER

    Published: 9/1/2024
  2. Wrongful Conviction 2024 - Trailer

    Published: 1/1/2024
  3. Introducing - Erased: The Murder of Elma Sands

    Published: 10/11/2023
  4. Earwitness: Episode 1 | Behind the Crown

    Published: 9/19/2023
  5. Introducing: Earwitness

    Published: 9/12/2023
  6. #375 Guest Hosts Clayton English and Greg Glod with Louie Garcia

    Published: 7/13/2023
  7. Bonus Episode | Melissa Etheridge on the Therapeutic Benefits of Psychedelics

    Published: 7/12/2023
  8. Lava for Good Live: The War on Drugs - Did Anyone Win?

    Published: 6/21/2023
  9. An Addict’s Journey

    Published: 3/22/2023
  10. Quick Fix 8 | What Do Solutions Look Like?

    Published: 3/20/2023
  11. Psychedelics: Party Drugs or Therapeutics?

    Published: 3/15/2023
  12. Quick Fix 7 | Your Home, Your Healthcare Records, Your Privacy

    Published: 3/13/2023
  13. The PTSD Cure Veterans Can’t Get

    Published: 3/8/2023
  14. Quick Fix 6 | They Had the Wrong House

    Published: 3/6/2023
  15. Doctor or Dealer? The Criminalization of Pain Meds

    Published: 3/1/2023
  16. Quick Fix 5 | Fears and Fiends

    Published: 2/27/2023
  17. The War At Your Door: No Knock Warrants

    Published: 2/22/2023
  18. Quick Fix 4 | Weed Cares About You

    Published: 2/20/2023
  19. El Cerebro and the Deadly Rise of Fentanyl

    Published: 2/15/2023
  20. Quick Fix 3 | A Drug Sniffing Dolphin?

    Published: 2/13/2023

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In 1971, President Nixon declared drug abuse ‘public enemy number one’— the first salvo in America’s War on Drugs. Fifty years later, with drug overdoses in the US at a record high, are we any closer to ‘victory’? The War on Drugs has a more profound effect on society than any of us really understands. It is embedded in the fabric of our culture and permeates our daily lives in visible and invisible ways – perhaps the most daunting pandemic we face. Lava for Good’s The War on Drugs podcast, co-hosted by comedian Clayton English and Greg Glod, senior criminal justice fellow at Americans for Prosperity, examines the true cost of five decades of policy, policing, and persecution. Special guests, including diverse subject matter experts, peel back the surface of this complicated period of US history, showing the ways the War on Drugs has fueled over incarceration, exacerbated addiction and hampered economic progress. By shining a spotlight on how our communities have crumbled under the weight of this so-called ‘war,’ we can explore the politicization of public health policy, institutional racism and classism in the legislation and administration of criminal law, and how decriminalization and other alternatives could bring the fruitless ‘war’ to an end.  The War on Drugs will be available every Wednesday beginning January 25 wherever you get your podcasts. The War on Drugs is a production of Lava for Good Podcasts in association with Signal Co. No1