#329: Bertha Madras

The Dr. Drew Podcast

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Talk Radio, Comedy, Science, Health & Fitness

4.4 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2018

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Psychobiology expert and former Deputy Director of Demand Reduction in the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy Bertha Madras joins Dr. Drew today for a conversation about drug use in America and how the medical community is focusing its efforts to try and better understand the way that our brains interact with drugs, especially when it comes to the opioid crisis in America.

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0:00.0	Thanks for listening to the Dr. Drew Podcast on Podcast One.
0:17.3	And welcome to Dr. Drew Podcast everybody.
0:19.0	We appreciate you supporting this podcast.
0:21.0	I've got a lot of interesting guests coming up and today we're going to have Bertha Madrasen
0:24.9	here, a professor of psychobiology at Harvard.
0:26.8	Before I get into this interview, I want to take a quick call from Sarah.
0:31.8	Sarah, go ahead.
0:33.8	Thanks Dr. Drew.
0:34.8	I wanted to ask you about the reaction that I had recently.
0:38.8	A couple weeks ago I found out that I was pregnant.
0:41.8	And congratulations.
0:42.8	Well, thank you.
0:44.8	It would have been my first pregnancy and I'm happily married.
0:49.8	I'm 35.
0:50.8	And my reaction was that I was really sad.
0:53.8	And it was a very visceral kind of depression.
0:57.8	Like as soon as you found out or it sort of slowly came on.
1:01.8	It was kind of as soon as I found out and it lasted for about three days where I just was really, really sad.
1:07.8	And I cried a lot which I normally am not a cryer.
1:10.8	So I was just wondering if you've ever had a pregnant mother or a presumably mother have that type of reaction.
1:19.8	For sure, I'm all kinds of mood swings.
1:21.8	You've heard of baby blues and also postpartum depression.
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