The moment you've all been waiting for ... it's the Poppers ep! With poppers in the crosshairs, we had to give y'all a whiff of the story behind your favorite little brown bottle. We start at the beginning in a french apothecary, peruse some titillating archival material, and perform some particularly lewd and crude reports that absolutely dripping with nitrites, among other things ;) Tune in next week for our interview with Adam Zmith, who quite literally wrote the book on poppers.

*Trigger Warning for explicit descriptions of sex

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Sources Referenced in this Episode

View scanned Drummer archives: cowboyfrank.men/

Special thanks to CSUDH Gerch Archives and Special Collections for making their archives available for research. With their cooperation we viewed archival material from: Drummer Magazine, Newswest, The Sentinel, The Advocate, and several other queer periodicals published between 1975 - 1990.

Adam Zmith, "Deep Sniff: A History of Poppers and Queer Futures" [2021] https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/676195/deep-sniff-by-adam-zmith/

Gina Tonic, "From Heart Medicine to Party Drug: A Brief History of Poppers"

Tim Willems, "Hit Hold Release 3: A Gay Adult Poppers Fantasy" [2024]

Time Magazine, "Nation: Rushing to a New High"

Jerry Mills, "Poppers: The Collected Cartoons of Jerry Mills" [1985]

H.W. Haverkos et. al, "Nitrite inhalants: history, epidemiology, and possible links to AIDS."

Austin Le et al. "Use of 'Poppers' among Adults in the United States, 2015 - 2017"

Wayne, on Erowid, "Mostly for Solo Sex"

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We're finally giving into our targeted Instagram ads and taking our mental health into our own hands (with an internet nurse practitioner who shares a name with a certain former First Lady). It's 2025 and we're getting our Ketamine from a compounding pharmacy in Ohio and shipped through the goshdang US postal service.

*Trigger Warning for discussions of suicidal ideation.

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Research and Writing by Kai

Editing and Production by Max

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Sources Referenced in this Episode

FDA Spravato Announcement https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-approves-new-nasal-spray-medication-treatment-resistant-depression-available-only-certified

Michelle Lhooq, The Psychedelic Industry Grew Too Fast—And Now is Getting a Reality Check https://doubleblindmag.com/the-psychedelic-industry-grew-too-fast-and-now-is-imploding/

Reddit thread including discussion of Ketamine therapy https://www.reddit.com/r/TherapeuticKetamine/comments/1dv7ulc/spravato_or_at_home/

Miski, Magical Depression Annihilator https://erowid.org/experiences/exp.php?ID=116071

Mayo Clinic on Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT) https://www.mayoclinic.org/tests-procedures/electroconvulsive-therapy/about/pac-20393894

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Finally one for the dolls! JK all our episodes are for the dolls. Do trans people like Ketamine more than cis people? I don't know, but it sure seems like it sometimes when you hang out with a lot of trans people who like Ketamine! We read from Hannah Baer's excellent book Trans Girl Suicide Museum, and discuss some the factors that contribute to higher rates of drug use among the queer community.

TW: for discussion of suicide, some graphic sexual content and brief mention of eating disorders.

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Sources Referenced in this Episode

Hannah Baer, "Trans Girl Suicide Museum" [2019] https://hessepress.storenvy.com/products/28804096-hannah-baer-trans-girl-suicide-museum

Jack K. Day et al., Transgender Youth Substance Use Disparities: Results from a Population-Based Sample https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6802742/

Sam Baker, Joy in my Body: an Exploration of Queer Drug Use https://digitalcommons.bard.edu/senproj_f2023/4/

Delilah Friedler, Does the Queer Scene Have a Ketamine Problem? https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/ketamine-queer-scene-addiction-side-effects-1234656422/

Jessalyn Maguire, “Angry at the Wrong Thing:” Queering Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy for Clients Experiencing Body Image and Eating Distress https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/28376811.2024.2371792?src=

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