While I was at the International Harm Reduction Conference in April I was lucky enough to get to talk with Patrick Gallahue and Rick Lines about IHRAs latest report into countries that use the death penalty as a punishment for drug offences.

Interviewing Patrick and Rick was really interesting, and of course scary. The fact that some countries seem to feel its appropriate to kill people based on the substances they are involved in was something I was aware of but the scale of the situation was a shock.

I'm afraid that because this was recorded during a conference the sound quality isn't as good as on a normal Hooked podcast.

You can either download the episode directly (link now fixed) or better still you can subscribe to the podcast via iTunes which will automatically get each new episode as it comes out.

Let us know what you think of the show by visiting our forum, site members can post to the forum and comment on all site articles (membership is free). We've put links to lots of related information for this episode in the show notes.

If you are not someone who has listened to podcasts before, or if you have never even heard of them then we have an introductory article that explains all here.