Book- Bad Trips: How I Went from VICE Reporter to International Drug Smuggler

The true story of a music editor at VICE who tried to become the coolest reporter the company had ever had ― by becoming an international

drug smuggler.

In 2019, music reporter Slava P, an editor for VICE media, was sentenced to nine years in prison for recruiting friends into a scheme to smuggle cocaine from the U.S. into Australia.

Five of them were already in jail.

Immediately, Slava P was internationally infamous.

Was he a victim of pressure to commit extreme acts for the sake of a good story?

A product of a drug-obsessed work environment?

Or a manipulator who pushed vulnerable young people into crime?

Here, Slava P tells his side of the story:

What exactly happened and how the precarious, dog-eat-dog atmosphere of a media company can lead the young, the naive,

and the ambitious into taking crazy risks.

Bad Trips is a story about drugs, hip-hop, influencers, and glamour,

set against the backdrop of one of the world’s most influential news and entertainment sites, VICE.

Its cast of beautiful young people and semi-famous rappers passes from the seediest apartments to the most elegant of private clubs.

Slava P’s chronicling of his years at this famous hotbed of excess is a piercing insight into contemporary media culture.

248 pages.