Drugs: Time for a Change?

The Naked Scientists Podcast

Dr Chris Smith

Natural Sciences, Science, Science Radio, Naked Scientists, Health & Fitness, Engineering, Medicine, Technology, Life Sciences

4.6 • 958 Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2016

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

100 years since the first UK drug law, we explore the controversial and confusing science behind the drugs debate. From the brain basis of addiction to how ecstasy could treat anxiety, what are the implications of the world's war on drugs? Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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0:00.0	I have you loud and clear.
0:03.4	Hello.
0:04.4	Hello.
0:05.4	Welcome.
0:06.4	Science and that is the same physics medicine, or space time brain life the universe
0:16.8	hello welcome to a special episode of the naked scientists with me Georgia
0:21.4	Mills and me corny o'erec and for the next hour we'll be
0:24.4	investigating psychoactive substances from the ancient origins of drug use. It seems
0:28.8	very likely that taking drugs was something we were doing before we were human.
0:34.0	To one man's battle with drug addiction.
0:37.0	It was like a hammer blow to realize I was actually physically addicted to morphine at that stage.
0:42.0	And we hear how one organization is calling for a change in the way we police users.
0:46.0	The resistance to making this change is not a scientific one, it's a political one,
0:51.0	because the reality we live in at the moment is the drugs
0:53.7	policy both in this country and across the world is driven by politics rather than the
0:58.6	science and that is a situation we need to change. The Naked Scientists
1:02.4	Podcast is powered by UKfast.co.uk.
1:07.0	A hundred years ago the first UK drug laws came into play and it was the
1:17.1	beginning of a long battle against the use of mind-altering substances, a war now
1:21.5	being fought all over the world.
1:24.1	The drugs debate is one that encompasses politics, morality, welfare and everything in between.
1:30.3	But today, as always, we'll be focusing on the science.
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