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First Aired: August 16th, 2022

Status: Ended

Network: ABC TV

Summary: Presented by Richard Roxburgh this four-part series is drug science without the politics. It unpacks the history, harms and surprising benefits of our most common recreational drugs.

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Season 1

Episode 1: Legal and Lethal

Air Date: August 16th, 2022

Summary: Richard Roxburgh unpacks the science of our two most commonly used legal drugs - tobacco and alcohol. Science historian Professor Robert Proctor reveals how our nicotine habit transformed into such a lethal addiction.

Episode 2: Medicinal Mindbenders

Air Date: August 23rd, 2022

Summary: Cannabis, psychedelics and MDMA are all experiencing a research renaissance, as scientists reach new understandings of their interaction with the human body and mind.

Episode 3: The Stimulants

Air Date: August 30th, 2022

Summary: We look at the different effects of caffeine, cocaine and methamphetamine. Two-time world surfing champion Tom Carroll opens up about his own battle with addiction and how he got clean.

Episode 4: New Epidemics

Air Date: September 6th, 2022

Summary: The finale examines the opioid crisis in the United States and looks at diseases caused by poor diet and sugar addiction.

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