Drugs and Rock & Roll

We’re discussing Grounded by Pavement in the context of denial to proper drug therapies by insurance companies. Here’s the link to the NPR article we referenced.

If you have access to it, you can spot Kurt at the end of the Ace of Cakes episode A Millionaire Moment (S10E3).

Drugs and Rock & Roll is written and prepared by Dr. Kathleen Frey. It is produced and webmastered by Kurt Padilla.

The intro and outro song is I Am a Scientist by Guided By Voices.

Drugs and Rock & Roll © 2026 by Dr. Kathleen Frey is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International.

Give me the cure? Give me the podcast! We’ve got a new one for you about Fugazi’s Give Me The Cure and HIV/AIDS drugs. Hope you like it!

Drugs and Rock & Roll is written and prepared by Dr. Kathleen Frey. It is produced and webmastered by Kurt Padilla.

The intro and outro song is I Am a Scientist by Guided By Voices.

Drugs and Rock & Roll © 2026 by Dr. Kathleen Frey is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International.

Would you like to meet the Hat Man? In this episode, you can find out how, and why that’s a really bad idea. Also, listen to us cover one of our favorite Modest Mouse songs, Dramamine.

If you haven’t heard of it before, check out Erowid.org, an incredible resource about drugs and a fascinating living fossil of a website.

Drugs and Rock & Roll is written and prepared by Dr. Kathleen Frey. It is produced and webmastered by Kurt Padilla.

The intro and outro song is I Am a Scientist by Guided By Voices.

Drugs and Rock & Roll © 2026 by Dr. Kathleen Frey is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International.

“He’s having a fit!”

Kathleen and Kurt are back to discuss the classic Joy Division song She’s Lost Control and epilepsy medications as they might have affected the life and untimely demise of band front-man Ian Curtis. We reference a great paper that Kathleen found called Ian Curtis: Punk rock, epilepsy, and suicide. See below for the proper citation.

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Drugs and Rock & Roll is written and prepared by Dr. Kathleen Frey. It is produced and webmastered by Kurt Padilla.

The intro and outro song is I Am a Scientist by Guided By Voices.

Drugs and Rock & Roll © 2026 by Dr. Kathleen Frey is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International.

A discussion about Hum’s The Scientists as it relates to clinical trials, drug discovery, and a little bit of the perverse relationship dynamics of researchers in this field.

Drugs and Rock & Roll is written and prepared by Dr. Kathleen Frey. It is produced and webmastered by Kurt Padilla.

The intro and outro song is I Am a Scientist by Guided By Voices.

Drugs and Rock & Roll © 2026 by Dr. Kathleen Frey is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International.

A discussion about lithium: the Nirvana song, the chemical, and the drug.

Drugs and Rock & Roll is written and prepared by Dr. Kathleen Frey. It is produced and webmastered by Kurt Padilla.

The intro and outro song is I Am a Scientist by Guided By Voices.

Drugs and Rock & Roll © 2026 by Dr. Kathleen Frey is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International.