60 Minutes 8/16
60 Minutes
CBS News
3.8 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 17 August 2020
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Anderson Cooper reports on some promising studies on psychedelic drugs as alternative treatments. European Union officials are sounding the alarm about a series of scandals involving allegations of bribery, cronyism and money laundering among top Maltese officials. Jon Wertheim has the story. And we revisit Bill Whitaker' interview with Grammy-award winner Shakira, which took place a few weeks before she performed at the halftime show for Super Bowl LIV. Those stories on this week's "60 Minutes."
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| 0:14.5 | I start seeing the colors and the geometric designs, |
| 0:18.0 | and then boom. |
| 0:20.0 | Visions began. |
| 0:22.0 | Visions brought about by the powerful psychedelic drug |
| 0:25.0 | Silasaybin, administered by scientists, |
| 0:28.0 | aimed at helping people suffering from depression, anxiety, and addiction. |
| 0:32.5 | Do you ever have a day where you wake up and you're like, |
| 0:34.5 | man, I wish I could have a vodka right now. |
| 0:36.5 | Not at all. |
| 0:37.5 | Which is the craziest thing, because that was my favorite thing to do. |
| 0:42.0 | The image on the left shows connections within the brain |
| 0:45.0 | before Silasaybin, on the right after. |
| 0:51.0 | Malta sits as a sun-dappled spec in the Mediterranean, |
| 0:55.0 | a short ferry ride to Sicily, and not much farther to Libya. |
| 0:59.0 | Over the last three millennia, |
| 1:01.0 | Malta has been conquered or colonized by just about every world power. |
| 1:08.0 | Most of the 500,000 people here are Catholic, |
| 1:11.0 | a tradition that started early. |
| 1:13.0 | The Apostle Paul is said to have been shipwrecked here in 68D. |
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