How Psychedelics Can Help People, Addiction in America, and Practicing Gratitude, with Dr. Roland Griffiths | Ep. 483

The Megyn Kelly Show

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4.6 • 32.8K Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2023

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Megyn Kelly is joined by Dr. Roland Griffiths, Director of the Center for Psychedelic and Consciousness Research at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, to talk about the history of psychedelic drugs, how caffeine is one of the most-used addictive drugs in the world, how "psilocybin" research started and how it is conducted, the amazing results of psychedelic use in patients, how psychedelics can help with depression and addiction, what happens in the brain during a psychedelic experience, the differences between MDMA or psilocybin or ketamine, the current state of addiction in America, groundbreaking cancer patient study using psychedelics as therapeutics, how Griffiths' personal experience of a terminal cancer diagnosis has changed his own perspective, appreciating life and practicing gratitude, the questions about end of life, how we can make the most of our lives, the nature of consciousness, and more. Support Roland and his work: https://griffithsfund.org

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Megan Kelly show, your home for Open, Honest, and Provocative Conversations.
0:07.0	Hey everyone, I'm Megan Kelly, welcome to the Megan Kelly show.
0:15.0	Oh my gosh, I'm excited for today's show.
0:17.4	This is something I know absolutely nothing about, but it's popping up here, there, and everywhere.
0:24.7	And if you're like me and you've never taken a magic mushroom and you don't know anything
0:29.8	about it, but you're hearing the buzz about this psilocybin, you know, there's also LSD.
0:36.8	I get it.
0:37.8	I have the same associations with those at least LSD that you might as a children of the
0:42.5	70s, but this is growing and growing in popularity under controlled settings because it's proving
0:50.2	to be a game changer, a game changer when it comes to things like depression, anxiety,
0:57.2	even potentially addiction, anorexia, smoking, I mean, we're going to go down the list of things
1:06.6	that this drug is potentially helping with and the studies that are being done on it now
1:11.7	thanks to our guest today.
1:13.2	Now, psilocybin is a naturally occurring, basically compound that you can find in these magic
1:19.4	mushrooms and it affects the central nervous system.
1:22.6	I know what you're thinking, okay, but it's not about getting high.
1:25.9	It's really not.
1:26.9	It is about treating some of these problems that a lot of people have.
1:31.0	My god, have you seen the latest stats on anxiety and depression?
1:34.5	Studies have shown that psilocybin has great potential when it comes to depression, alcohol,
1:39.0	addiction, smoking.
1:41.4	We could go down the list eating disorders, as I mentioned, OCD potentially.
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