Combat trauma researcher Kate Pate and US military veteran Nathan Pohl join Professor Nutt to answer the question - Could ayahuasca and other plant-based medicines lead the next generation of psychotherapy?
Dec 10
142. Animal Research and the Future of Depression with Prof Emma Robinson
Join us in this episode as we speak with Emma Robinson, a professor of psychopharmacology at the University of Bristol with extensive experience in animal research. She unpacks the regulations surrounding animal research, offering a scientist’s view on animal rights activism, eth ... Show More
1 h
Nov 26
141. Clubs, Raves, Drugs and Social Media with Simon Doherty
<p>In this episode of the Drug Science Podcast, we talk to Simon Doherty, a journalist and content creator with a focus on harm reduction. He explores how reporting on electronic music and rave culture naturally led to his work on harm reduction. He goes on to dissect Talk to Fra ... Show More
44m 39s
Sep 2019
Dr. Ben Sessa - Preliminary Results from MDMA Assisted Therapy for Alcohol Use Disorder
<p>In this episode, Kyle and Joe interview Ben Sessa, a Consultant Psychiatrist. Ben comes on the show to talk about preliminary results from the first ever, MDMA assisted therapy for alcohol use disorder (AUD).<strong><br /></strong></p> <h1>3 Key Points:</h1> <ol> <li>Ben Sessa ... Show More
45m 25s
Sep 2023
115. The Future of Therapy Is Psychedelic
<p>For 37 years, Rick Doblin has been pushing the F.D.A. to approve treating post-traumatic stress disorder with MDMA, better known as Ecstasy. He tells Steve why he persisted for so long, why he doesn’t like calling drug use “recreational,” and what he learned from his pet wolf. ... Show More
53m 5s
Aug 2023
PT430 – Maya Albert – Psychedelics for Eating Disorders, Davos' House of Psychedelics, and The Future of the Synthesis Institute
<p>In this episode, Joe interviews Maya Albert: Co-Founder of the Psyched conference, and Director of Operations at Tabula Rasa Ventures and the Synthesis Institute.</p> <p>She shares her journey of how she became involved in the psychedelic space through her mother, and her pers ... Show More
1h 4m
Sep 2021
Psychedelics for Treating Mental Disorders | Dr. Matthew Johnson
This episode I discuss medical research on psychedelic compounds with Dr. Matthew Johnson, Ph.D., Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. We discuss the biology and medical clinical-trial uses of psilocybin, MDMA, ayahuasca, DMT, and L ... Show More
2h 49m
Aug 2021
Anna Lembke, MD on The Neuroscience of Addiction, Dopamine Fasting & The Opioid Crisis
The relentless pursuit of pleasure always leads to pain. As the world evolves from one of scarcity to overabundance, we increasingly orient our lives around the pursuit of pleasure and avoidance of pain—an instinct that has produced a myriad of unprecedented types of addiction, a ... Show More
2h 24m
Apr 2021
Lucas Richert, "Break on Through: Radical Psychiatry and the American Counterculture" (MIT Press, 2020)
"Antipsychiatry," Esalen, psychedelics, and DSM III: Radical challenges to psychiatry and the conventional treatment of mental health in the 1970s. The upheavals of the 1960s gave way to a decade of disruptions in the 1970s, and among the rattled fixtures of American society was ... Show More
46m 4s
Jun 2023
Why Psychedelics May Be The Future Of PTSD, Addiction, And Depression Treatment
This episode is brought to you by Rupa Health, InsideTracker, and LMNT. Compounds that have long been considered recreational drugs by conventional standards are finally being recognized through science as powerful tools for overcoming hard-to-treat health issues like PTSD, depre ... Show More
1h 10m
Dec 2022
Can Psychedelic Therapy Reset Our Social Media Brains?
When you look at the world, it can feel like we're in a precarious moment. If you’ve listened to past episodes, you know we call this the meta-crisis — an era of overlapping and interconnected crises like climate change, polarization, and the rise of decentralized technologies li ... Show More
42m 51s