Podcasts by Dad Does Drugs

Dad Does Drugs

Journalist and father of 3, Bob Diggles, has spent a year getting to know the drug landscape in the UK.
On this podcast Bob meets scientists, criminologists, festival organisers, musicians, politicians, bereaved parents and many more people with fascinating narcotic insight.

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Episode 18: I Feel A Bit Funny… from 2019-10-18T15:19:47

With comedian Jacob Hawley. He’s made a brilliant podcast for the BBC, called Jacob Hawley – On Drugs – it’s one of the most successful on the BBC Sounds app. I met him to talk drugs, podcast...

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Episode 17: The Compassionate Copper from 2019-10-10T22:02:07

With T/Detective Chief Inspector Jason Kew, Heroin & Crack Action Area Coordinator for the South East of England. In this episode you’ll find out… What the T stands for in Jason’s rank. What a ...

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Episode 16: Performance&Image Enhancing Drugs from 2019-10-04T22:58:45

With Dr Ian Hendy – two times World Bodybuilding Champion for the World Natural Bodybuilding Federation. He’s stacked… but not jacked – Ian doesn’t take any steroids or illegal supplements – ...

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Episode 15: Drug Users Read This… from 2019-07-10T20:40:39

Michael Linnell has been writing and illustrating drug information leaflets, posters, flyers and comics for nearly 40 years – and he’s a great podcast guest. His characters Peanut Pete,...

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Episode 14 : Bonus Brian! from 2019-06-26T20:34:57

Brian Reed is a volunteer chemist for drug testing charity The Loop and a speaker for drug reform charity Anyone’s Child. Why? He calls it Lydia’s Legacy, his daughter died when she was...

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Episode 13: I Buy Heroin For My Son from 2019-06-19T20:25:56

With Professor Sue Pryce, a lecturer in politics at the University of Nottingham, who teaches a module called Politics and Drugs after becoming aware of how close all our lives come to the dru...

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Episode 12: Politics and Drugs from 2019-06-12T20:41:54

With Norman Lamb MP, former Lib Dem health minister and one of few MPs who is vocal about drug policy reform. Norman wants to see cannabis legally regulated and possession of all other drugs decrim...

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Episode 11: Meeting Mr MDMA from 2019-06-05T20:43:13

Emmanuel Sferios is the founder of Dancesafe. He’s making MDMA The Movie. He’s the host of the drug positive podcast. And he’s a really thought provoking guest, especially if all you’ve ever heard ...

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Episode 10: Who is Harry Shapiro? from 2019-05-29T20:35:19

It depends, this is the one I spoke to, he’s the director of Drugwise. Don’t get him confused with this one. And certainly not this one The one we want has written a couple of hit books about drugs...

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Episode 9: Cannabis with Dr Suzi Gage from 2019-05-22T20:52:21

Dr Suzi Gage is a psychologist. She looks at the links between lifestyle behaviours (like drug taking) and mental health. She’s also the host of a super science podcast, Say Why to Drugs, and tells...

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Episode 8: Drugs and Girls from 2019-05-15T20:30:42

A year ago, 18 year old Georgia Jones took two ecstasy pills at a festival and died. This year her mum Janine Milburn is going back to give try to educate festival goers about drug safety, first ai...

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Episode 7: Under (peer) Pressure&Teenage Kicks from 2019-05-08T20:37:18

Felix Bechtolsheimer is frontman of cinematic, southern, gothic alt-rock band Curse Of Lono and before that Hey Negrita. Prior to that he was a troubled teenager, a drug dustbin and a heroin addict...

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Episode 6: All the Fun (and the Fears) of the Festival from 2019-05-01T20:55:49

With festival season fast approaching, Bob wants to know how to keep his children safe if they join thousands of people in a field full of music, booze and drugs. He talks to Anna Wade from Boomtow...

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Episode 5: The K Hole from 2019-04-24T21:04:21

In Episode 5 Bob looks at the dissociative psychedelic ketamine. Use of K is rising among young people in the UK . He meets Wendy Teasdill whose daughter Eleanor died in 2013 after taking it at Boo...

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Episode 4: Sound Of The Police from 2019-04-17T20:09:37

In Episode 4 Bob looks at drug policing in the UK in 2019 and how it’s affecting young people. He talks to Detective Superintendent Scott MacKechnie : Head of Serious Organised Crime with Hamp...

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Episode 3: Wheeling&Dealing from 2019-04-10T22:59:47

In Episode 3 Bob looks at drug dealing in the UK in 2019 including county lines operations involving teenagers. He meets Dr Mohammed Qasim a researcher who talks to drug dealers to find out wh...

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Episode 2: Buying&Testing from 2019-04-03T22:59:35

In Episode 2 Bob buys drugs and gets them tested to see if they were worth the money. He meets Professor Fiona Measham, a nightclub loving criminologist who founded a drug testing charity called Th...

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Episode 1: Rock&Roll? from 2019-03-27T23:59:53

In Episode 1 Bob begins to explain why he wants to talk to his children about drugs. He meets rock guitarist, songwriter, music producer and dad Jim Cregan to hear how a successful music career is ...

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Teaser from 2019-03-07T23:06:46

Journalist and father of 3, Bob Diggles, has spent a year getting to know the drug landscape in the UK. On this podcast Bob meets scientists, criminologists, festival organisers, musicians, politic...

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