We have a range of stories of interest from overseas such as King’s College, UK researchers finding that drones could reach 78% of fatal opioid overdoses within 7 minutes, a massive increase on the 14% reached by ambulances.

The International Drug Policy Consortium (IDPC) have published a paper “revealing the missing links to climate justice: Drug policy”. Prohibition is causing enormous damage to fragile ecosystems. Protecting them “requires getting to the source of the shadow system that threatens them: the laws and treaties that make drugs illegal.”

Recent drug policies in San Francisco sadly resemble war-on-drugs policies from the 1980’s, argues Zena Dhatt in her piece “Decriminalize Drug Use. Do It Now.”

A piece by David Heitz talks about fentanyl dealers in the US saying no to first time users.

The show is co-presented by Geoff Ward and Marion Watson.