Press and talks

A selection of Spanish and international press coverage of DoctorX:

El Observatorio de drogas del DoctorX (El País 26/8/12)

Buying Your Drugs Online Is Good for You (Vice UK 24/1/2014)

The Secret Side of the Web Is Home to Heroes, Not Just Crooks (Wired 5/6/14)

Un doctor spaniol vrea să furnizeze controale de calitate pentru drogurile ilegale (VICE Ed.Rumanía 26/8/14)

This Spanish family physician wants you to know more about illegal drugs (GlobalPost 20/10/14)

DoctorX ist der zuverlässigste Drogenberater des Darknets (Motherboard Deustch, 22/11/14)

Fernando Caudevilla: Spanish doctor advises drug users on the dark web’s Silk Road (The Sydney Morning Herald, 20/10/14)

C’è un dottore nel Dark Web? (Wired 14/1/15)

Maak kennis met de drugsvoorlichter van het darknet (Vice Ed. Netherlands 30/1/15)

The Dark Net’s Drug Counselor (Motherboard, 29/1/15)

Inside the Deep Web Drug Lab (Medium 27/3/15)

«Доктор Х» из Барселоны — как тестируют лекарства и наркотики, купленные в интернете (Imenaua 6/4/15)

Silk Road’s leader paid a doctor to help keep customers safe (Dailydot.com 28/5/15)

Silk Road, Online Black Market, Reduced Users’ Risks, Defense Says (New York Times, 19/5/15)

The drug bazaar's "Doctor X" discusses our failed war on drugs and shameful addiction policies (Salon 3/6/15)

Entrevistamos al doctor más confiable de la Deepweb (Vice Colombia 23/6/15)

Shedding light on the dark web (The Economist 16/6/16)

Legitimate Uses For The Dark Web (17/7/17)

Volajú ho DoctorX, na darknete radí, ako bezpečne brať drogy (Napunk, 12/5/18)

Interview with Fernando «DoctorX» Caudevilla (SAPAS, 12/5/18)

To Tackle Drug Use, Researchers Turn to Online Forums (Undark.org 18/10/19)

"“El médico de familia puede diagnosticar una adicción y proporcionar tratamiento de primera línea” (El Médico Interactivo, 1/3/23)

DoctorX interviewed in Deep Web (Kykeon Analytics 25/8/23)

Some videos of DoctorX at work

My talk for the International Drug Policy Reform Conference 2015 in Washington (20 November 2015) focused on online advice for recreational drug users from a harm-reduction perspective in cryptomarkets.

Liminal Village 2016: harm and risk reduction on the Deep Web. A talk at Boom Festival (Lisbon).

The classic panel where it hardly matters what you say because everyone already agrees (Fort Apache, February 2016).

A short interview by Youth RISE (2017).

Of the two hours of questioning under a blinding spotlight, the only question that got cut was "Do you take drugs?" (Pasapalabra).

My contribution to "Drug Crypto Markets Beyond 2020" (side event to CND 2020, Vienna, UN 2020).

Much of this coverage is about his work on cryptomarkets: Harm reduction on the dark web.