20 Best Harm Reduction Podcasts

1. Crackdown

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The drug war, covered by drug users as war correspondents. Crackdown is a monthly podcast about drugs, drug policy and the drug war led by drug user activists and supported by research. Each episode will tell the story of a community fighting for their lives. It's also about solutions, justice for those we have lost, and saving lives.more Producer/Network Crackdown Productions
Email ****@gmail.com
Estimated Monthly Listeners 50k-250k
Apple Rating 4.9/5Apple Reviews 1.1K Get Email Contact Get access to full database of 2.7M podcastsCreate podcast lists, export in spreadsheet or CSV file with email contacts and start your podcast outreach in minutes.Sign Up for Free with Email Continue with Google

2. Narcotica Podcast

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A podcast about the war on drugs and the people caught in the middle, brought to you by dedicated science and drug policy journalists Christopher Moraff, Zachary Siegel, and Troy Farah.
Producer/Network Christopher Moraff, Troy Farah, Zachary Seigel
Email ****@gmail.com
Estimated Monthly Listeners 10k-50k
Recent Guest Beth Dinges
Apple Rating 4.9/5Apple Reviews 166 Avg Length 62 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

3. Dopey: On the Dark Comedy of Drug Addiction

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Dopey Podcast is the world's greatest podcast on drugs, addiction and dumb shit. Chris and I were two IV heroin addicts who loved to talk about all the coke we smoked, snorted and shot, all the pills we ate, smoked, all the weed we smoked and ate, all the booze we consumed and all the consequences we suffered. After making the show for 2 and a half years, Chris tragically relapsed and died from a fentanyl overdose. Dopey continued on, at first to mourn the horrible loss of Chris, but then to continue our mission - which was at its core, to keep addicts and alcoholics company...more Hosts Dave Manheim, Chris
Producer/Network Dave & Chris
Email ****@gmail.com
Estimated Monthly Listeners 50k-250k
Recent Guests Blake Mycoskie, Margaret Cho +9 more
Apple Rating 4.8/5Apple Reviews 3.5KFacebook 179.2KTwitter 4.1KInstagram 66K Avg Length 107 min Format Extended Get Email Contact

4. The Drug Science Podcast

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Professor David Nutt has spent a career making the argument for a rational, evidence-based approach to drug policy and drug use. The scientific evidence still challenges perceived wisdom on drugs and for that reason can appear to be contentious. In this podcast, the Professor explores the actual harms and potential benefits of various drugs, challenging myths surrounding classification and legislation, and exploring the societal impact of poorly informed drug policy. Using evidence in public policy should not be controversial...more Host David Nutt
Producer/Network Drug Science
Email ****@imperial.ac.uk
Estimated Monthly Listeners 10k-50k
Recent Guests Dr Harriet de Witt, Hannah Dawes +6 more
Apple Rating 4.9/5Apple Reviews 335 Avg Length 49 min Format Long form Since Jul 2019 Get Email Contact

5. The Psymposia Podcast

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Psymposia is a 501(c)(3) research non-profit with a mission to educate the public on psychedelic science and harm reduction. We offer critical perspectives on drugs, politics, and culture. The podcast is co-hosted by Psymposia co-founder Brian Normand, psychedelics researcher and ethicist Neşe Devenot, evolutionary ecologist Brian Pace, and journalist Russell Hausfeld.more Hosts Brian Normand, Neşe Devenot, Brian Pace, Russell Hausfeld
Producer/Network Psymposia
Email ****@cs.umass.edu
Estimated Monthly Listeners 1k-10k
Recent Guests Greg Lake, Emma Stamm +2 more
Apple Rating 4.5/5Apple Reviews 84Facebook 12.9KTwitter 13.9K Avg Length 70 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

6. Recovery Demystified - Non-Religious Addiction Recovery and Harm Reduction for Queers, Neurodivergen

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Welcome to the ONLY non-religious addiction recovery podcast exploring the queer and neurodivergent (autism/ADHD/etc) experience of addiction recovery, sobriety, and harm reduction. We tell addiction recovery stories to destigmatize recovery while navigating life in the process of healing from addiction and trauma. We leave shame and purity politics at the door. Start here! https://sites.libsyn.com/560715/why-do-i-keep-relapsing-youre-not-broken-heres-how-to-break-the-cycle We talk about addiction recovery support from a radical lens, thinking outside the box and providing viable alternatives to 12-step programs...more Producer/Network Early Brunner
Email ****@recoverydemystified.com
Estimated Monthly Listeners 100-1k
Recent Guests Jakob, Sara +5 more
Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 4 Avg Length 48 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

7. Chemical World

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KDNK DJ Kenna Crampton and High Rockies Harm Reduction Director Mugsy Fay host their Public Affairs show Chemical World. This program aims to de-stigmatize drug addiction and mental health, discuss different recovery models and harm reduction programs and explore evidence based practices in treating addiction. Topics will include the history of drug laws, connections between poverty and drug addiction as well as personal recovery stories.more Hosts Kenna Crampton (Steindler), Maggie Seldeen
Producer/Network Kenna Steindler
Email ****@kdnk.org
Estimated Monthly Listeners 100-1k
Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 13 Avg Length 36 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact

8. Dealing With Drugs: A Hot Press Podcast

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Based in Ireland but global in reach, Hot Press magazine has been writing about drugs for fifty years with Lemmy, Pete Doherty, Howard Marks, Duff McKagan, Sam Fender, Moby, Margo Price, Steven Tyler, Marianne Faithfull, Matty Healy, Ian Brown and Noel and Liam Gallagher among those who've shared their pharmaceutical experiences with us.Firm believers that prohibition and punishing people don't work, we want to see some drugs legalised and others decriminalised.From heroin, ketamine and cannabis to MDMA, LSD and synthetics, we'll be teasing it out all out in our new monthly harm reduct..more Producer/Network Hot Press
Recent Guest Irvine Welsh
Avg Length 48 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

9. The Needle and the Narrative

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The Needle and the Narrative is produced by Challenges Inc SC; a non profit, drug user health and harm reduction service provider in South Carolina. Interests include drug policy, infectious disease, HIV, HCV, harm reduction, substance use treatment, and drug user activisim. We use stories from lived experience to influence systemic change. Challenging minds; changing hearts. To support our work by becoming a subscription member, visit: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-needle-and-the-narrative--1518412/support www.challengesinc.orgmore Producer/Network Marc Burrows
Email ****@challengesinc.org
Estimated Monthly Listeners 100-1k
Recent Guests Kris Stepp, Lysandra Ryan +5 more
Apple Rating 3/5Apple Reviews 3 Avg Length 47 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

10. Do What You Can Live With: Navigating Through Addiction and Recovery

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Do what you can live with: Navigating Through Addiction and Recovery is a podcast that shares the struggles of loving someone with substance use disorder, and explores harm reduction and the lived experiences of those in recovery. Hosted by Brandi Mac, a critical care nurse practitioner, and mother of an adult daughter with substance use disorder. Each episode provides raw and real lived experience and the struggles we face as loved ones of people who use drugs, the stigma surrounding addiction, harm reduction and the impact generational trauma has on each of us.more Host Brandi Mac
Email ****@gmail.com
Estimated Monthly Listeners 1k-10k
Recent Guests Brooke, Melissa Ledesma +1 more
Apple Rating 4.8/5Apple Reviews 57 Avg Length 44 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

11. Recovery Reform: Navigating Harm Reduction, Recovery, and Drug Policy

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Recovery Reform endeavors to break the stigma around substance use and explore recovery beyond traditional narratives. Hosted by McCauley Sexton, founder and Executive Director of Recovery Reform and a person with lived and living experience of substance use, and Dr. Taylor Nichols, an emergency medicine and addiction medicine physician, the Recovery Reform podcast dives into conversations with people with lived experience, experts in harm reduction and substance use treatment, and leaders in drug policy.more Hosts McCauley Sexton, Dr. Taylor Nichols
Producer/Network Dr. Taylor Nichols and McCauley Sexton
Email ****@sextonspace.com
Estimated Monthly Listeners 100-1k
Recent Guests Patrick Doyle, Dee-Dee Stout +2 more
Apple Rating 4.4/5Apple Reviews 7 Avg Length 56 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

12. VOICES OF THE FRONT LINES

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Step into Milwaukee's fight against overdose deaths with Voices of the Front Lines. Host Tahira Malik shares her journey from addiction and incarceration to founding Samad's House, a sober living home for women. We showcase unsung heroes—survivors and devoted neighborhood outreach workers by telling their raw, inspiring stories. We reveal the profound impact of life-saving, compassionate harm-reduction services. Through authentic narratives, Voices of the Front Lines fosters empathy and hope. Join the urgent fight against overdose deaths, which disproportionately strike Black communities.more Producer/Network Tahira Malik, Founder Samad's House
Email ****@frisbyassociates.com
Avg Length 49 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

13. Unsilencing Stories

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Previously, this podcast featured interviews with bereaved people in smaller communities in B.C. and Alberta who have lost loved ones to fatal opioid overdose. The project was facilitated by Aaron Goodman, Ph.D., faculty member at Kwantlen Polytechnic University in Surrey, B.C., and student researchers, Jenna Keeble and Ashley Pocrnich. In this phase, we're sharing interviews with seven harm reduction workers, also known as peers, in different parts of B.C. The B.C...more Host Aaron Goodman
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14. PSYCHOACTIVE

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Drugs, drugs, drugs. Almost everyone uses them. Almost everyone has an opinion about them. Drug policy pioneer Ethan Nadelmann gets to the bottom of our strange relationship to drugs by talking with those who love them, hate them, and study them.We'd love to hear your stories and ideas. Send us a note at ****@protozoa.com or leave a voicemail at 1-833-PSYCHO-0 (1-833-779-2460).more Host Ethan Nadelmann
Producer/Network iHeartPodcasts and Protozoa
Email ****@nadelmann.net
Estimated Monthly Listeners 10k-50k
Apple Rating 4.7/5Apple Reviews 225 Avg Length 61 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

15. GFN News

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The Global Forum on Nicotine (GFN) has taken place every year since 2014 and is the only international conference to focus on how vapes, nicotine pouches, Swedish snus and heated tobacco can help people switch away from smoking. Building on the success of an event that attracts hundreds of in-person participants and thousands of online delegates, this is the homepage of GFN•TV, the broadcast arm of the GFN stable.GFN•TV regularly broadcasts GFN•TV news and interviews, given by Brent Stafford...more Producer/Network GFN.TV
Email ****@streamit.cafe
Recent Guests Fiona Patten, Rohan Pike +1 more
Avg Length 17 min Format Short form Get Email Contact

16. Vaping Unplugged Podcast

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Everything you need to know about vaping and tobacco harm reduction advocacy.Presented by the World Vapers Alliance.https://worldvapersalliance.com
Hosts Liza Katsiashvili, Michael Landl
Producer/Network World Vapers Alliance
Email ****@worldvapersalliance.com
Recent Guests Kurt Yeo, Professor Bernd Mayer +9 more
Facebook 2.2KTwitter 4.9KInstagram 5.5K Avg Length 30 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact

17. Global State of Tobacco Harm Reduction

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Maps #tobaccoharmreduction and its #publichealth potential. A Knowledge Action Change project, with the Tobacco Harm Reduction Scholarship Programme.
Producer/Network GSTHR
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Avg Length 20 min Format Short form Get Email Contact

18. The Advocates Voice

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In these bulletins, we inform you about public health policy, law and consumer advocacy issues relating to tobacco harm reduction and safer nicotine products in Asia Pacific and beyond.
Producer/Network Coalition of Asia Pacific Tobacco Harm Reduction Advocates
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Avg Length 21 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact

19. The PackBreakers Podcast

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A show that is dedicated to vaping and people of vaping, centred around their involvement in vaping and tobacco harm reduction.
Producer/Network VSML - Vaping Saved My Life
Estimated Monthly Listeners 100-1k
Recent Guest Martin van Staden
Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 3 Avg Length 47 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

20. SafeInSound™ powered by DanceSafe®

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Welcome to SafeInSound! A podcast where harm reduction meets the heartbeat of the music industry. From tour buses to festival grounds, nightclubs to main stages — we go behind the scenes to explore what it takes to keep music fans, safe in sound! Through real conversations with artists, industry insiders, harm reduction experts, and fans — we dive into everything harm reduction, from festival and concert safety, drug education, consent culture, bystander intervention, and wellness all across the board. Because harm reduction is for everyone...more Producer/Network SafeInSound™ by DanceSafe®
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