In the book Pastuk documents cocaine smuggling while working as a music editor at Vice Media.

Bad Trips: How I Went from VICE Reporter to International Drug Smuggler is co-written by Slava Pastuk and Brian Whitney.

[3] The book documents Pastuk's life that started with his birth in Ukraine, and emigrated with his mother to Canada.

[1] He lived in Barrie, before moving to Toronto at the age of 19 for a marketing job, that he then quit to work for Noisey Canada, part of Vice Media.

[1][3][4] Alan MacKenzie of the Winnipeg Free Press describes the book as entertaining, but Pastuk's self-importance as exhausting and notes his lack of remorse.