This week: Preventing overdose deaths; Sweden begins to reluctantly embrace harm reduction; and Attorney General Eric Holder talks about criminal justice reform and the injustice of felony disenfranchisement.

The environmental impact of drug trafficking; US marijuana policy gets a hearing on capitol hill; and the death of Philip Seymour Hoffman – it's the Drug Policy Facts podcast.

This week: we speculate about tonight's state of the union address, hear from US Attorney General Eric Holder about federal sentencing reform, learn how states are reducing their prison populations, and find out about se

This week: sports, briefly; President Obama says marijuana no more dangerous than alcohol, sky still hasn't fallen; next week is NIDA's drug facts week; and this week's Nixon tape features Dick talking heroin and the cre

In this week's Drug Policy Facts podcast: blacks more likely to get arrested by age 23 than whites, drug use rates unaffected by law enforcement, crime rates seemingly unaffected by law enforcement, and a conversation be

This first Drug War/Drug Policy Facts podcast of the year is dedicated to the 55,014 people in state prison serving time for drug possession. This week: a new prisoner report; survey shows majority support for marijuana

Drug War / Drug Policy Facts podcast for January 1, 2014. This week: legal marijuana sales in Colorado, court says no urine testing for welfare benefits in Florida, and thoughts about anti-incarceration and other social

This week: If a page is popular on the internet, should anyone care? Also Uruguay's legalization bill finally signed into law, Monitoring the Future survey has good news, and we correct Nora Volkow

This week we talk about Uruguay and marijuana legalization, Gil Kerlikowske talks about drug policy reform, and Sanho Tree talks about the GOP's sphincter strategy.

In this week's podcast we talk about drug policy reform and hear from the White House conference on drug policy which was held Dec. 9, 2013: Patrick Kennedy misses the elephant in the room.