E241. Dr. Drew Thinks Addicts Are Great Survivors

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🗓️ 13 July 2023

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Bridget sits down with physician and radio host Dr. Drew Pinsky. They reminisce about Love Lines, which Bridget was a huge fan of in her teens, how Dr. Drew wound up on the radio in the first place, what struck him the most about the calls he was receiving, the massive amount of ignorance regarding sex and the human body at the time, the consequences of the sexual revolution, and how people today are less ignorant because they have access to more information but they’re still as confused as ever. The also cover the importance of therapy, the miracles he's seen happen working with addicts, how someone who’s nearly dead can go to thriving, what he's learned about addiction and its treatment, the human propensity to self-destruct, why addicts are great in extreme situations, finding humor in the darkest places, dealing with depression and OCD, the importance of human relationships to how our brains learn and understand things, and the truth about dopamine hits. Listen to Bridget's appearance on The Dr. Drew Podcast . Sponsor Links: Shopify - https://bit.ly/shopify-wiw The Jordan Harbinger Show - https://spoti.fi/3LhJBTP Your Welcome Podcast - https://bit.ly/WiW-YourWelcome Progressive Insurance - https://pgrs.in/3Dp5ZIW

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0:00.0	This week, we welcome radio host and physician, Dr. Drew Pinsky.
0:04.6	What were the questions that would struck you the most in the early days?
0:09.2	The magnitude, I mean, use a word that has a kind of pejorative quality.
0:13.9	And I don't mean it pejoratively, but the ignorance around human biology and
0:20.6	reproductive health and ST dies and how, how they were babies come from.
0:25.8	I mean, it was, it was a birth control of how that work.
0:29.0	It was astonishing.
0:31.4	One of the things, one of the very problematic aspects of the sexual revolution is
0:37.0	the adults who carried this thing out never thought about what it would do to
0:42.2	adolescents. Right.
0:44.5	They assumed adolescents would, of course, not have sex.
0:47.3	They would know better.
0:48.6	Well, I had just been an adolescent.
0:50.3	I knew what was going on.
0:52.2	Itting me, the adolescents picked up your sexual revolution.
0:55.7	And of course, went further than anybody.
0:59.2	We were in it.
1:00.1	And so no information, no planning for that.
1:02.6	No, what are you going to do about this?
1:04.1	I mean, what, what, what, what goes on here?
1:06.2	This is Watkins.
1:07.2	Welcome with Bridget Pettasy and Bridget Pettasy and you are welcome.
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