Party Safer: What Music Festivals Can Teach Us About Drugs

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Whether it's Ness Creek, Coachella or Jazz Fest, some music festival-goers like to enjoy substances or alcohol. Erika Dyck, history professor at the University of Saskatchewan and a Canada Research Chair in history of health and social justice, specifically studies the use of psychedelics and harm reduction in these spaces. She joins Brent now to talk about what her research can teach us about keeping people safer and the long history of harm reduction.
18 Aug 11AM English Canada News Commentary

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