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Hey there! I’m Murf Meyer. I’m a comedian, former heroin addict, current alcoholic, and the host of Self-Medicated: Weekly Dose—a podcast about drugs and the people who use them. This program is inspired by the Harm Reduction movement, informed by my personal experience using all sorts of drugs for damn near 30 years, and enlightened by my special guests. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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This week on Century of Lies: A Look Back At Seattle Hempfest.In August 1991, a group of weed activists and freedom lovers gathered in Volunteer Park in Seattle, Washington for the Washington Hemp Expo. From these modest beginnings grew the largest protestival in the world...KBOO Community Radio
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This week on Century of Lies: Overdose Awareness.The New South Wales Users and AIDS Association is a peer-based drug user organisation. NUAA strives to improve advocacy for, and services supporting, the diversity of people impacted by stigma and discrimination caused by th...KBOO Community Radio
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This week on Century of Lies: Nitazenes.International Overdose Awareness Day is observed annually on August 31. The first observance was organized in 2001 by S-J Finn, a harm reduction worker who managed a needle and syringe service program in St. Kilda, Victoria, Austral...KBOO Community Radio
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This week on Century of Lies: FDA Rejects MAPS MDMA-Assisted Therapy.On August Ninth, the Food and Drug Administration formally rejected a New Drug Application submitted by Lykos Therapeutics for its MDMA-Assisted Therapy. While this news came as a shock to some, back in J...KBOO Community Radio
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This week on Century of Lies: Birth Behind Bars.The Senate Judiciary’s Subcommittee on Human Rights and the Law held a hearing recently to shine a light on the pervasive abuse of pregnant women in prisons around the country. We hear from Senator Jon Ossoff; Jessica Umberg...KBOO Community Radio
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This week on Century of Lies: Incarceration and Crime.The Sentencing Project has released a new report entitled “Incarceration & Crime: A Weak Relationship,” which illustrates that less imprisonment often happens alongside improvements to community safety. They held a webi...KBOO Community Radio
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This week on Century of Lies: Stigma.Since 2015, the Stigma Indicators Monitoring Project at the University of New South Wales has documented the expression and experiences of stigma and discrimination towards people affected by blood borne viruses and sexually transmitte...KBOO Community Radio
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This week on Century of Lies: Launch of the European Union Drugs Agency.The European Monitoring Centre on Drugs and Drug Addiction was the European Union’s drugs monitoring agency. Technically the EMCDDA is no more but it hasn’t closed, it’s changed: The EMCDDA is now call...KBOO Community Radio
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This week on Century of Lies: Decriminalization, Depenalization, Diversion, and Legalization of Drugs.The Oireachtas, which is the Parliament of the Republic of Ireland, established a Joint Committee on Drugs Use in March of this year to consider and respond to the recomm...KBOO Community Radio
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This week on Century of Lies: World Drug Report 2024.The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime released its 2024 World Drug Report on June 26. We hear an overview from Dr. Angela Me, Chief of the Research and Trend Analysis Branch at UNODC, and reactions from Ambassador...KBOO Community Radio
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This week on Century of Lies: Progress In Vermont.The state of Vermont has approved legislation to allow municipalities to decide whether to authorize the establishment of overdose prevention centers, also known as supervised consumption facilities or safer consumption sit...KBOO Community Radio
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This week on Century of Lies: Drug Checking Services and Synthetic Cathinones.We hear about drug checking services at festivals from Mar Cunha, a harm reductionist in Portugal who works with Kosmicare at their drug checking service; and we hear about cathinones from Steph...KBOO Community Radio
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This week on Century of Lies: European Drug Report 2024.The European Monitoring Centre on Drugs and Drug Addiction released its 2024 European Drug Report on Tuesday June Eleventh. On this edition of Century we bring you audio from the news conference held by EMCDDA to mark...KBOO Community Radio
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This week on Century of Lies: New Jersey Harm Reduction Conference Part One.On this edition of Century we hear from Dr. Sheila Vakharia, Deputy Director of the Department of Research and Academic Engagement at the Drug Policy Alliance and the author of The Harm Reduction G...KBOO Community Radio
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This week on Century of Lies: Safe Consumption Sites.Safe consumption sites, supervised consumption facilities, overdose prevention centers, drug consumption rooms – whatever you call them, these vital harm reduction interventions save lives, provide wound care, reduce the...KBOO Community Radio
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This week on Century of Lies: Rule of Law in the Balance.Since late during the Duterte presidency and continuing under President Ferdinand Marcos Junior, extrajudicial drug war killings in the Philippines have continued at the rate of about one per day. Arrest warrants in ...KBOO Community Radio
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This week on Century of Lies: We Fight, We Hide, We Unite.The Eurasian Harm Reduction Association recently hosted a discussion entitled Tenacity in the shrinking civic spaces: challenges and response of the organizations and activists working on drug policy and health in C...KBOO Community Radio
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This week on Century of Lies: Human Rights and the Drug War.In the Philippines, former Senator Leila de Lima was imprisoned for nearly seven years by the Duterte regime, framed for crimes she didn’t commit because she spoke out against human rights abuses and extrajudicial...KBOO Community Radio
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I'm flying solo this week on the program! Join me as I piss into the wind about America's ongoing Adderall shortage. RESOURCE LINK: https://nextdistro.org/testingdrugs Thanks so much for tuning in to the Weekly Dose podcast! Stay dialed in: LISTEN to new eps every Wednesday SUBSCRIBE to the YouTube channel FOLLOW me on Instagram PEEP these harm red…
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This week on the program it's the goddamn GOAT Diana Kolsky! Join us for a preemptive in memoriam, a dated topical discussion, and an answer to the age-old question: "What's heavier, the human soul or 31 grams of heroin?" Support the beautiful folks over at Street Roots! (www.streetroots.org) Thanks so much for tuning in to the Weekly Dose podcast!…
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This week on the program it's comedians and co-hosts of the Stinkers podcast, Caroline Cotter and Maggie Widdoes! Join us for the first ever Weekly Dose multi-guest episode where we drag the DARE program's mascot, explore secret hangover cures, and play the hit game show America's Wildest DEA Patches. Listen to the Stinkers podcast, and follow the …
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This week on the program it's comedian and author John Flynn! Join us as we discuss the (obvious) differences between eating and smoking cannabis, get an anti-drug freebie from Kirk Cameron, and cringe at a very special message from Ally Sheedy. Buy John's hilarious book, Baked! Sex, Drugs, and Alternative Comedy, listen to his podcast Two Old Quee…
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This week on the program I've got comedian/writer Will Miles! Join us as we fondly recall our time smoking weed with Method Man, damn Pat Robertson to hell, and Just Say No™ with the Showtime Lakers. Follow Will @mrwillmiles on Instagram. Thanks so much for tuning in to the Weekly Dose podcast! Stay dialed in: LISTEN to new eps every Wednesday SUBS…
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This week on the program it's comedian, writer, and poet Arti Gollapudi! Join us as we relive some dope Hempfest vibes, properly reschedule the Controlled Substances Act, then co-host the first annual Thrill Can Kill™ awards ceremony. Follow Arti @artiparty on Twitter and Instagram. Thanks so much for tuning in to the Weekly Dose podcast! Stay dial…
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This week on the program it's comedian, writer, four-time Emmy Award winner, and genuinely sweet soul Josh Gondelman! Join us for Y2K on ecstasy, Donald Trump's Xi Jinping, and some much needed elderly pug love. Subscribe to Josh's delightful newsletter That's Marvelous! and follow him on Instagram. Thanks so much for tuning in to the Weekly Dose p…
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This week on the program I defend Measure 110 against some mainstream media mudslinging and copaganda. Thanks so much for tuning in to the Weekly Dose podcast! Stay dialed in: LISTEN to new eps every Wednesday SUBSCRIBE to the YouTube channel FOLLOW me on Instagram PEEP these harm reduction resources CALL the voicemail line - (443) MK-ULTRA ━━━━━━━…
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This week on the program I'm playing Family Feud (War on Drugs edition) with "the most trusted man in America" Walter Cronkite! RECEIPTS: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5021a2.htm https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/contrary-to-the-popular-hysteria-research-shows-that-80-90-of-crack-cocaine-and-meth-users-dont-get-addicted/ https://www.stat…
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This week's program is dedicated to the dearly departed (from Fox News) Christian nationalist and DEA mouthpiece Tucker Swanson McNear Carlson! Thanks so much for tuning in to the Weekly Dose podcast! Stay dialed in: LISTEN to new eps every Wednesday SUBSCRIBE to the YouTube channel FOLLOW me on Instagram PEEP these harm reduction resources CALL th…
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This week on the program I got comedian, artist, and beekeeper Emma Arnold! Join us as we romp up and down the 12 steps toward patriarchal recovery, get dragged to hell by the Devil (aka masturbate), and set the record straight on the death of Mama Cass. Follow Emma @emmaarnoldisakeeper on Instagram, listen to her on City Cast Boise, and watch her …
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This week I'm answering questions from listeners! Questions like, "What's your beef with Matthew Perry?" Thanks so much for tuning in to the Weekly Dose podcast! Stay dialed in: LISTEN to new eps every Wednesday SUBSCRIBE to the YouTube channel FOLLOW me on Instagram PEEP these harm reduction resources CALL the voicemail line - (443) MK-ULTRA ━━━━━…
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Today I've got the greatest of all time back on the program... oh yes, it's my lover, writer/comedian Diana Kolsky! Join us for a very special triple-segment episode where we combine The Substance Report, Biden' Time, and Fentanyl Fever to unpack a truly sensational story. CLICK HERE to dive into Diana's leftist comedy zine, Functionally Dead. Than…
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This week on the program I’ve got the wildly talented director/producer Ryan Cunningham! Join us as we mock our home state of Pennsylvania for once again marrying law enforcement and public health, tangle with the local media in Luzerne County, then both head to the beach sporting a sweet new pair of Lithium™ sunglasses. Follow Ryan @ryanecunningha…
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This week on the program it's my old middle-school buddy, Grammy-winning songwriter Matt Rogers! Join us as we play the National Drinking Game (1970 version), trade stories of purchasing alcohol for minors, and marvel at the Bud Light abomination that was Spuds MacKenzie. Thanks so much for tuning in to the Weekly Dose podcast! Stay dialed in: LIST…
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This week on the program I've got comedian, clown, Latin music artist, director and actress Veronica Osorio! Join us as we discuss smoking cigarettes on the silver screen, microdosing vs. macrodosing, and enjoy a Venezuelan anti-drug PSA. Follow Veronica @veronicaosoriov on Twitter and Instagram, listen to her podcast Treks and the City, and join T…
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This week I've got Sesame Street writer Geri Cole on the program! Join us as we drag the CIA, fantasize about Captain Planet's "extra earth," and exchange tales of paralyzed sleep and night demons. Follow Geri @gericole on Instagram. Thanks so much for tuning in to the Weekly Dose podcast! Stay dialed in: LISTEN to new eps every Wednesday SUBSCRIBE…
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This week on the program I am pumped to welcome one of my all-time favorite actor/comedians, Jon Gabrus! Join us as we catch a serious fentanyl fever, perform body cavity searches and then do all the drugs we find, and preside over a high-profile court case—The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania vs. Tobacco Hut. Follow Gabrus @gabrus on Twitter and Insta…
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This week on the program I've got the delightfully hilarious writer/actor/comedian Alex Song-Xia! Join us as we implicate Andy Cohen in Prince Harry's raid on Courteney Cox's magic mushroom fridge, appreciate the wonders of Rat Park (which I kept calling Rat City), and enjoy a passage from Alex's psychedelic journal entries. Follow Alex @alexsongxi…
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This week on the program I'm partying with writer/actress Ellen Haun! Join us as we marvel at the prospect of Patrick Mahomes chugging 100 Coors Lights, present the award for Outstanding Performance by a Lead Actor in an Anti-Drug PSA, and then go to the big eternal Prince concert in the sky. Follow Ellen @ellenhaun on Instagram HERE. Pick up her v…
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This week I've got comedian Gianmarco Soresi on the program! Join us as we discuss prop cocaine in Hollywood, prop crack in Washington, and an inspired posthumous casting choice to play Donald Trump in a biopic. Follow Gianmarco @gianmarcosoresi on Instagram HERE. Listen to his hilarious podcast, The Downside, HERE. Thanks so much for tuning in to …
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This week I've got the wildly talented actress Mirai on the program! Join us as we discuss Cocaine Bear, the foaminess of beer balls, and the dangers of shooting up with an empty syringe. Follow Mirai @hi.mirai on Instagram HERE. Thanks so much for tuning in to the Weekly Dose podcast! Stay dialed in: LISTEN to new eps every Wednesday - https://wee…
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This week I'm answering questions from listeners! Thanks so much for tuning in to the Weekly Dose podcast! Stay dialed in: LISTEN to new eps every Wednesday - https://weeklydose.link/listen SUBSCRIBE to the YouTube channel - https://weeklydose.link/subscribe FOLLOW me on Instagram - https://weeklydose.link/social PEEP harm reduction resources - htt…
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This week I've got comedian, writer, and my favorite goddamn person in the world making her second appearance on the program... that's right, Diana Kolsky is back! Join us as we take a psychedelic peek through the looking glass at the British royal family, blow lines of coke in a Lowe's display shed, and recast James Lipton for a very special Insid…
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This week I've got my dear friend and Pennsylvania Coal Country brother Tim Casey on the program! Join us as we show solidarity for my old little league teammate who was recently charged with DDRD, razz our local law enforcement after they come down with yet another case of fentanyl fever, and triple down on the ol' jazz cabbage, all while having a…
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This week my guest is off the charts! Who are we talking about here? They're an exceptional comedian, and an even better human being, it's Lou Gonzalez! Join us as we explain social media to the uninitiated (me), get hot & bothered fantasizing about Dick Cheney's lizard jowls, and eat some heavenly ice cream scooped by Prince. Follow Lou on Instagr…
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This week from Portland, Oregon, I’ve got harm reduction advocate and the Drug Users Health Services Program Supervisor from Outside In, Haven Wheelock! Join us as we take a trip down livestream (memory) lane, celebrate the passage of Measure 110 in Oregon, and fondly recall the sharp discomfort you get from snorting Pixy Stix. Please consider dona…
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Holy hell, this week I’ve got my old pal and collaborator Chris Gethard on the program! Join a couple of veteran ramblers as we unpack some of the nuance surrounding antidepressants, expose the CIA as the filthy cocaine cartel that they truly are, and preach bottom-up over top-down all day. Listen to Gethard’s hit podcast Beautiful Anonymous HERE, …
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This week I've got one of my favorite comics about town on the program, Kenice Mobley! Join us as we shit on Matthew Perry for shitting on Keanu Reeves, mull over the logistics of surgeons smoking weed in the operating room, and have a spirited discussion about a funky futuristic vaccine! CLICK HERE to snag Kenice's debut comedy album, Follow Up Qu…
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This week my guest is the incredibly hilarious comedian and podcast host, Sebastian Conelli! Join us as we unpack an outrageous international incident, learn how to say "suck my dick" in Russian, and get Michael Jordan's prediction on how long we're going to live. CLICK HERE to check out Sebastian's podcast, Loud About Nothing. Thanks so much for t…
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