The Dr. Junkie Show

By Benjamin Boyce

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Episodes: 142

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The Dr. Junkie Show is a podcast hosted by addicted person, convicted criminal, prison educator and college educator Ben Boyce. Topics include drugs and those who use them, media, and communication, along with an overall focus on systems, not (just) people.


Episode Date
#142: Where's my Adderall, Ritalin & Opioids?
Mar 28, 2024
#141: The Panopticon
Mar 21, 2024
#140: Captured Words/Free Thoughts, 20th Anniversary
Mar 14, 2024
#139: We Couldn't Build it Worse if we Tried
Mar 07, 2024
#138: Drugs and Addiction in a Neoliberal Oligarchy
Feb 14, 2024
#137: Foucault on Drugs
Feb 03, 2024
#136: Heroin with Adorno, Marx, Marcuse & Nietzsche
Sep 08, 2023
#135: Capitalism and the War on Drugs (Benjamin Fong)
Jun 23, 2023
#134: What's Wrong with Prison? (Christie Donner)
May 13, 2023
#133: Attachment, Authenticity & Addiction (Dr. Erin Boyce)
Apr 22, 2023
#132: Prisons on TV and the Spectacle of Punishment
Apr 14, 2023
#131: The US War on Drugs 1970-2020
Mar 30, 2023
#130: The US War on Drugs 1920-1970
Mar 21, 2023
#129: The US War on Drugs 1870-1920
Mar 15, 2023
#128: What Prison Should Be Like (Dr. Ashley Hamilton)
Mar 02, 2023
#127: Poetry from Prison—Captured Words/Free Thoughts 19
Feb 15, 2023
#126: Moderating Drug & Alcohol Use When you Don't Want to Stop (Kenneth Anderson)
Feb 07, 2023
#125: Spice, K2 & Synthetic Cannabinoids (The Medium is the Message)
Jan 31, 2023
#124: On Christianity (C Dreams)
Jan 21, 2023
#123: Overcoming I Ain't Shit Syndrome (C Dreams)
Jan 16, 2023
#122: Why I do this Work
Jan 10, 2023
#121: Prison Education (Meghan Cosgrove)
Jan 05, 2023
#120: For the Love of Heroin
Dec 20, 2022
#119: Alcohol, 12-Step Programs and Bill Wilson on LSD
Nov 30, 2022
#118: Drugs in Prison (C Dreams)
Nov 10, 2022
#117: Prisons for Profit
Nov 05, 2022
#116: The Origins of the War on Cannabis
Oct 23, 2022
#115: Overmedication & Prison Education (Ann Bracken)
Oct 12, 2022
#114: Rainbow Fentanyl
Oct 05, 2022
#113: Placebo Effect
Sep 27, 2022
#112: The Opium Wars
Sep 11, 2022
#111: Religious Trauma, Belief, and Peace on Drugs (Aaron Akulis)
Aug 31, 2022
#110: Alcohol, Religion & Pandemics
Aug 15, 2022
#109: Dr. Marks' Heroin Clinics, Cocaine Cigarettes & Redefining Drugs (Toby Seddon)
Aug 04, 2022
#108: Quitting Kratom—A Story about Set & Setting
Jul 28, 2022
#107: Betel Nut
Jul 17, 2022
#106: The Urge—Our History of Addiction (Dr. Carl Erik Fisher)
Jul 04, 2022
#105: Poppers (Amyl Nitrite)
Jun 27, 2022
#104: Social Media, Mass Shootings & The Future of Drug Policy (Dr. Erin Boyce)
Jun 20, 2022
#103: Autism & Addiction
Jun 12, 2022
#102: What it's Like in Places Where Drugs are Legal
Jun 03, 2022
#101: The Shawshank Redemption—A Critical Review
May 26, 2022
#100: What I Really Think about the Police
May 19, 2022
#99: Why You Can't Punish Addiction
Apr 25, 2022
#98: Rat Park & Other Drug Experiments
Apr 17, 2022
#97: Drugs on TV
Apr 07, 2022
#96: Who put Xylazine (Tranq) in my Drugs & Why is that a Problem?
Mar 21, 2022
#95: Ketamine
Mar 15, 2022
#94: Euphoria 2.0—A Critical Review (Dr. Erin Boyce)
Mar 08, 2022
#93: Nitrous Oxide (Whippits, Party Balloons & Hippie Crack)
Mar 01, 2022
#92: Portugal's Drug Policy & Methadone Vans
Feb 22, 2022
#91: Captured Words/Free Thoughts Volume 18
Feb 15, 2022
#90: Live from the Classroom - A Lecture about Drugs & the War against Users
Feb 10, 2022
#89: Art from Inside with The Justice Arts Coalition (Wendy Jason)
Feb 06, 2022
#88: Help after Incarceration with Remerg (Carol Peeples & Roohallah Mobarez)
Feb 02, 2022
#87: Cocaine Revisited
Jan 24, 2022
#86: Why you Can't Stay High Forever (Dr. Judith Grisel)
Jan 17, 2022
#85: What bell hooks Taught Us (Dr. Erin Boyce)
Jan 10, 2022
#84: Shooting Up
Jan 02, 2022
#83: Selling Cigarettes
Dec 27, 2021
#82: The Book Dr. Junkie
Dec 18, 2021
#81: Teaching Feminism to Incarcerated Students
Dec 08, 2021
#80: Medical Marijuana (Katie Sullivan)
Nov 29, 2021
#79: In Home Detox (Dr. Abe Malkin)
Nov 21, 2021
#78: Purple Syrup (Lean)
Nov 13, 2021
#77: One Year After Oregon's Drug Decriminalization Measure 110 (Morgan Godvin)
Nov 03, 2021
#76: Civil Asset Forfeiture
Oct 27, 2021
#75: False Positives & User Error in Roadside Drug Tests
Oct 18, 2021
#74: Ask me Anything (Dr. Erin Boyce)
Oct 07, 2021
#73: Speedballs—Myths & Misconceptions
Sep 29, 2021
#72: Preparing for Viral Apocalypse (Dr. Lisa Keränen)
Sep 21, 2021
#71: Fentanyl(s)
Sep 14, 2021
#70: Why I am Going back to Prison
Sep 06, 2021
#69: The Weight of Air (David Poses)
Aug 31, 2021
#68: Tracking the Opioid Settlements (Christine Minhee)
Aug 24, 2021
#67: Polyamory is for Everyone (Dr. Stephanie Webb)
Aug 16, 2021
#66: The Endocannabinoid System (Elise Keller)
Aug 10, 2021
#65: The Era of Big Pharma Settlements
Aug 03, 2021
#64: Undoing Drugs (Maia Szalavitz)
Jul 27, 2021
#63: Disciplined Silence
Jul 21, 2021
#62: Rewriting Our Life Stories (Dr. Travis Heath)
Jul 15, 2021
#61: Power
Jul 08, 2021
#60: Why are Drugs Illegal Anyway?
Jul 01, 2021
#59: My America by Chris Trigg
Jun 26, 2021
#58: Is Wokeness a Religion? (Dr. Erin Boyce)
Jun 22, 2021
#57: Las Vegas
Jun 18, 2021
#56: Religion as a Drug
Jun 13, 2021
#55: A Few Thoughts on The New Jim Crow
Jun 07, 2021
#54: Dance Safe, Drug Positive & Free Fentanyl Testing (Emanuel Sferios)
May 31, 2021
#53: How to Talk to Kids about Drugs (Laura Hull)
May 23, 2021
#52: Methadone
May 15, 2021
#51: Systems, not (just) People
May 09, 2021
#50: Will 3D Printed Drugs End the Drug War?
May 02, 2021
#49: Ghost Dope (Chris Trigg)
Apr 27, 2021
#48: The Derek Chauvin Trial...Haven't we Heard this Story Before?
Apr 22, 2021
#47: 19 Months Per Pill - Why we Torture Prisoners (Brandon Stickney)
Apr 17, 2021
#46: Free Will
Apr 11, 2021
#45: The Stanford Prison "Experiment"
Apr 04, 2021
#44: How to Make a Bad Apple - Milgram's Shock, Robbers Cave, and Arendt's "Banality of Evil"
Mar 28, 2021
#43: How Television is "Teaching you to Love Fear" (Dr. Travis Dixon)
Mar 21, 2021
#42: Cancel Culture versus Accountability (Rebecca Traister)
Mar 13, 2021
#41: The "Opioid Epidemic"
Feb 28, 2021
#40: Crack Cocaine
Feb 21, 2021
#39: Help, My Friend is Addicted to QAnon!
Feb 14, 2021
#38: The More Things Change...(Dr. Mia Fischer)
Feb 07, 2021
#37: Rethinking Addiction (Maia Szalavitz)
Jan 29, 2021
#36: The Problem with 12-Step Programs
Jan 20, 2021
#35: Suing Walmart-What the Justice Department Really Wants
Jan 10, 2021
#34: Everyone is Not Okay Right Now (and that's okay!)
Dec 29, 2020
#33: HBO's Euphoria - A Critical Review
Dec 21, 2020
#32: Shawshank, Oz and Fox News Teach us to be Afraid (Dr. Bill Yousman)
Dec 14, 2020
#31: Meditation (Dr. Jeni Hunniecutt)
Dec 06, 2020
#30: Whiteness (Dr. Dawn-Marie McIntosh)
Nov 29, 2020
#29: Captured Words\Free Thoughts vol. 17 (with incarcerated artists nationwide)
Nov 22, 2020
#28: Addiction
Nov 15, 2020
#27: Christian Privilege (Paul Kivel)
Nov 08, 2020
#26: Casualties of War (Jessie Dunleavy)
Nov 01, 2020
#25: Life without Parole...for Drugs! (Kevin Ott)
Oct 25, 2020
#24: Benzodiazepines
Oct 18, 2020
#23: About the Name "Dr. Junkie"
Oct 17, 2020
#22: When they call us Murderers (Morgan Godvin)
Oct 11, 2020
#21: "You Can't Say that to a Judge!" (Judge Holmes)
Oct 04, 2020
#20: Sex Work (Justice Rivera)
Sep 27, 2020
#19: Needles, Crackpipes and Free Drugs - Harm Reduction (Kat Humphries)
Sep 21, 2020
#18: Stoned Apes - Turn on, Tune in & Drop out
Sep 16, 2020
#17: First Trips (Vanessa & Riley Brown)
Sep 09, 2020
#16: MethAmphetamine (Dr. Erin Boyce)
Sep 02, 2020
#15: Shame
Aug 26, 2020
#14: Crime
Aug 15, 2020
#13: Between Ex-Inmates (Chandra Bozelko)
Aug 10, 2020
#12: The Prison-Industrial Complex
Aug 03, 2020
#11: Kratom (Dr. Oliver Grundman)
Jul 27, 2020
#10: Religious Experience (Dr.s J. Anderson & M. Ferguson)
Jul 19, 2020
#9: MDMA (Dr. Ben Sessa)
Jul 12, 2020
#8: Opioids
Jul 06, 2020
#7: Heroin
Jun 29, 2020
#6: Healing (Dr. Jeni Hunniecutt)
Jun 23, 2020
#5: Chronic Wokeness
Jun 16, 2020
#4: Cannabis
Jun 09, 2020
#3: Myths
Jun 02, 2020
#2: Cocaine
May 31, 2020
#1: About the Show
May 28, 2020