I recently appeared on Australia’s Channel 10 popular TV morning program, Studio 10, talking about the drug war and my new book, Pills, Powder and Smoke: Inside the Bloody War on Drugs
Literary journal Kill Your Darlings book review of Pills, Powder and Smoke
The following book review of my book, Pills, Powder and Smoke: Inside the Bloody War on Drugs, appears in the literary journal Kill Your Darlings and is written by Kylie Maslen: Dramatic news reports constantly warn us about the dangers of drugs, from the ‘ice epidemic’ to suburban drug busts to the increasing use of…
Pills, Powder and Smoke released as audio book
My new book, Pills, Powder and Smoke: Inside the Bloody War on Drugs, has been released as an audio book read by the acclaimed, veteran Australian actor John Derum. It’s available on whatever platform you use for audio books. Here’s a sample:
ABC Australia Radio National’s Late Night Live interview on ending the war on drugs
My interview on ABC Australia Radio National’s Late Night Live on the drug war and my new book, Pills, Powder and Smoke: Inside the Bloody War on Drugs:
ABC Australia Sydney interview on the global drug war and its insanities
My interview on ABC Australia Sydney Breakfast program about the drug war and my new book, Pills, Powder and Smoke: Inside the Bloody War on Drugs: Antony Loewenstein edit
ABC Australia Radio PM interview on radically rethinking the never-ending war on drugs
My interview on ABC Australia’s leading current affairs program, PM, on the global drug war and my book, Pills, Powder and Smoke: Inside the Bloody War on Drugs:
Why Australians are increasingly looking for serious drug reform
My interview in the Canberra Times about the war on drugs and my new book, Pills, Powder and Smoke: Inside the Bloody War on Drugs. Both stories appeared on the same day written by Blake Foden: Article one: Antony Loewenstein wants to set things straight about the global war on drugs. The author of Pills,…
Ethical ways to end the brutal war on drugs
My interview in the Guardian about my book, Pills, Powder and Smoke: Inside the Bloody War on Drugs, by Jenny Valentish: In August 2018 there was a flurry of headlines about the hypocrisy of middle-class cocaine users, dubbed “the woke who do coke”. Hot takes were prompted by the comments of UK Metropolitan police commissioner…
How the drug war targets the most vulnerable
My interview in the Sydney Morning Herald/Melbourne Age on the drug war and my new book, Pills, Powder and Smoke: Inside the Bloody War on Drugs, by Kerrie O’Brien: The Morrison Government’s plan to drug test welfare recipients is counterproductive, futile and immoral, says Antony Loewenstein, who has spent the past five years researching the…
Al Jazeera English documentary broadcast, West Africa’s Opioid Crisis
Al Jazeera English has just broadcast my documentary, West Africa’s Opioid Crisis, made with South African film-maker Naashon Zalk. Commissioned by the global network’s leading documentary program, People and Power, this was a 9-month investigation in Nigeria and beyond into the devastating effects of the addictive opioid drug tramadol: West Africa – and particularly its…