433. How Are Psychedelics and Other Party Drugs Changing Psychiatry?

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🗓️ 1 October 2020

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Three leading researchers from the Mount Sinai Health System discuss how ketamine, cannabis, and ecstasy are being used (or studied) to treat everything from severe depression to addiction to PTSD. We discuss the upsides, downsides, and regulatory puzzles.

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0:00.0	Hey there, it's Stephen Dubner.
0:07.0	The episode you're about to hear was recorded live via Zoom in collaboration with the Green
0:11.8	Space at WNYC, our hometown radio partner.
0:15.9	We gathered three medical researchers to talk about how a variety of drugs, often used for
0:21.8	recreational purposes, are increasingly being used in medical settings.
0:27.0	This is a topic of great interest these days, one example being Michael Pollan's best
0:31.7	selling book How to Change Your Mind, What the New Science of Psychedelics teaches us
0:37.2	about consciousness, dying, addiction, depression, and transcendence.
0:42.0	The substances we will be discussing today are ketamine, MDMA, and CBD.
0:48.5	The entire Zoom conversation lasted 90 minutes.
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1:00.5	after this.
1:05.2	From Stitcher and Dubner Productions, this is Freakonomics Radio.
1:19.2	The podcast that explores the hidden side of everything.
1:22.5	Here's your host, Steven Dubner.
1:33.1	Good evening, and thanks for tuning in.
1:36.0	As you likely know, there are many natural and synthetic psychedelic substances they've
1:42.2	been used by countless cultures for centuries, perhaps millennia, for many purposes, medicinal,
1:48.9	religious, social, recreational, and so on.
1:52.6	The first synthetic hallucinogenic molecule LSD was discovered by the Swiss chemist Albert
1:58.6	Hoffman in 1938, and it came to be considered a wonder drug, helpful not only in expanding
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