How to Rewire Your Brain with Professor David Nutt

Live Well Be Well with Sarah Ann Macklin | 21 June 2022 | 1h 13m | Listen Later | Podcasts | Spotify
Interview with David Nutt about his life and work researching drugs. Discusses drug science, how psychedelic treatment can lead to breakthroughs in mental health, drug policy, and the impact of drugs such as cannabis and alcohol.

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Rick Emerson on Unmask Alice

Thecuriousmanspodcast | 27 July 2022 | 1h 11m | Listen Later | Podcasts | Spotify
Interview with Rick Emerson about his book Unmask Alice: LSD, Satanic Panic, and the Imposter Behind the World’s Most Notorious Diaries. Explains how “Go Ask Alice”, the supposed diary of a middle-class drug addict, with its portrayal of sex, drugs and teenage self-destruction, demonised LSD, and led to the war on drugs.

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Chris Letheby: Philosophy of Psychedelics

The Dissenter | 11 March | 1h 07m | Listen Later | Podcasts | Spotify
Interview with Chris Letheby about his book Philosophy of Psychedelics. Discusses the philosophy of psychedelics: epistemology; psychedelic therapy; the neurobiology of psychedelics; changes to the sense of self; autobiographical changes; the epistemic risks and benefits of psychedelic therapy; and spiritual experiences from a naturalistic point of view.

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Drug Use: Is Getting High an American Right?

The Next Big Idea | 4 March 2021 | 1h 24m | Listen Later | iTunes
Interview with Carl Hart about his book Drug Use for Grown-Ups. Backgrounds research that suggests responsible use of drugs like cannabis, cocaine, heroin, and meth can be a good thing. Argues that the criminalisation of drugs is racist.

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Michael Pollan on the Psychedelic Society

The Ezra Klein Show | 14 December 2020 | 1h 16m | Listen Later | iTunes
Interview with Michael Pollan discussing the Oregon ballot initiative that legalized the use of psilocybin. Covers what Proposition 109 does and the challenges it will face, the lost history of psychedelics being used as a therapeutic tool in the 1950s, why the mental health profession in America is so excited about the revolutionary possibilities of psychedelic treatment, why the “noetic experience” induced by psychedelics has such incredible healing potential, whether widespread psychedelic use would create massive population-level changes in society, and much more.

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Acid Revival: The Psychedelic Renaissance and the Quest for Medical Legitimacy

The Hour of History Podcast | 1 August 2020 | 0h 56m | Listen Later | iTunes
Interview with Danielle Giffort about her book Acid Revival: The Psychedelic Renaissance and the Quest for Medical Legitimacy. Backgrounds the rise, fall, and reemergence of psychedelic research and discusses the new generation of researchers working to rehabilitate psychedelic drugs and usher in a new era of psychedelic medicine.

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Rick Doblin – Psychedelic Breakthroughs

The Tim Ferriss Show | 12 June 2020 | 1h 41m | Listen Later | iTunes
Interview with Rick Doblin, the founder and executive director of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS). Discusses MAPS’s work to make MDMA-assisted psychotherapy an approved treatment for PTSD.

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Robin Carhart-Harris on Psychedelics and the Brain

Sean Carroll’s Mindscape Podcast | 3 February 2020 | 1h 17m | Listen Later | iTunes
Interview with Robin Carhart-Harris, the Director of the Centre for Psychedelic Research in the Department of Brain Sciences at Imperial College London. Discusses the history of psychedelics, how they work, how they can help with conditions from addiction to depression, and how they can help people discover things about themselves.

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