The White House issues its new drug control strategy so we hear from Michael Botticelli, acting director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, and NIDA's Nora Volkow on heroin and prescription drugs.

Political pressure stops research, and the centers for disease control are talking again about prescription drug overdoses.

A House subcommittee looks at federal marijuana policy, and we look ahead to Thursday's Global Day Of Action Against the War on Drugs. It's the Drug Policy Facts podcast for June 24, 2014.

This week: Dean Becker of the drug truth network talks about his new book and a debate challenge, plus it's the 43rd anniversary of methadone maintenance in the US.

The feds tell Georgia they can't urine test recipients of food stamps. The New York state legislature looks at heroin. It's the Drug Policy Facts podcast for June 10, 2014.

The House of Representatives votes to forbid the Justice Department from going after state-legal medical cannabis facilities, and the European Union's drugs monitoring agency reports on rates of drug use in the EU �

This week on the Drug Policy Facts podcast: the Senate Narcotics Caucus talks about heroin, the Minnesota legislature passes limited medical cannabis law, and a company changes its substance abuse policy for the better.

This week: Hemp seeds are going to Kentucky; the constitutionality of cannabis scheduling is going to federal court; urine testing in the cannabis industry is going nowhere, so far; and the Oregon Medical Marijuana Progr

Urine testing in the cannabis industry? We also hear part of a Senate hearing with DEA Administrator Michelle Leonhart talking heroin and marijuana, and the Patients Out of Time Conference is this weekend.

This week we hear from General John F. Kelly, Commander of SOUTHCOM, and Admiral Robert J. Papp, Jr., Commandant of the US Coast Guard, on the success or failure of interdiction and how they think our allies view marijua