We live under prohibition, and many of us live under some form of government created overdose crisis. Proponents for prohibition argue that changing our punitive drug laws would only exacerbate the harms of drugs. Activists and harm reductionists spend so much time fighting this logic that they rarely have a chance to imagine how things could be. What could the future hold, how could we make ourselves and our loved ones safer? If drugs were regulated differently what sorts of community and harm reduction practices could exist?
We do not know what the future could hold. But we can begin to imagine it together.
Drug Futurisms is a podcast co-hosted by Claire Zagorski and Alex Betsos. We come from different worlds, Claire from chemistry and pharmacy, Alex from sociology and anthropology. But we share a common goal. Imagining that another drug world is possible.
We interview people who use drugs, drug researchers and activists to ask them the question they rarely get to answer: What could the future hold?