Opioids, cancer and mortality with Aleksi Hamina.
In this episode Ben Scher talks to Dr Aleksi Hamina from the Norwegian centre for addiction research at the University of Oslo and the Niuvanniemi Hospital in Finland. They discuss a recent paper co-a...
18 Heinä 202413min
Cannabis use in the US with Jonathan Caulkins.
In this episode Dr Elle Wadsworth talks to Professor Jonathan Caulkins about self-reported cannabis use in the US between 1979 and 2022 and how those trends compare with alcohol use over the same peri...
22 Touko 202422min
Integrated care vans with Kathleen Page.
In this episode, Ben Scher talks to Dr Kathleen Page about her evaluation of an integrated care van that ran in Baltimore offering healthcare interventions and buprenorphine prescribing. Dr Page discu...
9 Touko 202426min
Smoking and abdominal obesity with Germán Carrasquilla .
In this episode Rob Calder talks to Dr Germán Carrasquilla about his study assessing whether smoking cased increases in abdominal obesity or belly fat. They discuss the implications of this kind of fa...
2 Touko 202417min
Benzodiazepines and treatment with Adam Bakker, Michael Liebrenz and Alexander Smith .
In this episode Ben Scher talks to Dr Adam Bakker, Professor Michael Liebrenz and Dr Alexander Smith about their commentary in response to a previous paper by Domzaridou and colleages (2023). They dis...
25 Huhti 202423min
Contingency management with Gabriela Khazanov, James, McKay and Richard Rawson.
In this episode, Ben Scher talks to Dr Gabriela Khazanov, Professor James McKay and Professor Richard Rawson. They discuss what contingency management is and how effective it can be in treatment setti...
17 Huhti 202427min
Xylazine, heroin and drug markets with Caroline Copeland.
In this episode Ben Scher talks to Dr Caroline Copeland about her work analysing drug death data to identify drug use trends, harms and to inform policy. Caroline talks about how xylazine first entere...
9 Huhti 202420min
