Magic Mushrooms: Your Favorite Drugs Episode!

Science Vs

Spotify Studios

Education, Science, Health & Fitness

4.4 • 12.4K Ratings

🗓️ 3 August 2023

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Here’s the episode you voted as our best drug episode: Magic Mushrooms! People are saying that shrooms cured their depression and anxiety. But is this for real? How could taking a trip on psychedelics fix your brain? Today, magic mushrooms ditch their tie dye for a lab coat as we go on a magical journey into the science. We talk to clinical psychologists Dr. Alan Davis and Dr. Albert Garcia-Romeu, and neuropsychologist Dr. Katrin Preller. Here’s a link to our transcript: https://bit.ly/SVFavDrugsEp This episode does deal with depression. Here are some crisis hotlines: United States: US National Suicide Prevention Lifeline 988 (Online chat available); US Crisis Text Line Text “GO” to 741741 Australia: Lifeline 13 11 14 (Online chat available) Canada: Canadian Association for Suicide Prevention (See link for phone numbers listed by province) United Kingdom: Samaritans 116 123 (UK and ROI) (Online chat available) Full list of international hotlines here This episode was produced by Meryl Horn and Michelle Dang with help from Wendy Zukerman, Nick DelRose, Rose Rimler and Hannah Harris Green. We’re edited by Blythe Terrell. Fact checking by Diane Kelly. Mix and sound design of this episode was by Bobby Lord. Mix and sound design of our original episode was by Peter Leonard. Music written by Peter Leonard, Marcus Bagala, Emma Munger, and Bobby Lord. A huge thanks to all the researchers we got in touch with for this episode, including Prof. David Nichols, Dr. James Rucker, Prof. Bryan Roth, Dr. Erika Dyck, Dr. Daniel Wacker, Mary Cosimano, Dr. Fred Barrett, Dr. Natalie Gukasyan, Dr. Jeff Guss, Dr. Suresh Muthukumaraswamy. Prof. Harriet de Wit, Dr. Nadia Hutten, Dr. Vince Polito, Dr. Kim Kuypers and Dr. Matt Kasson. Thanks to all the clinical trial participants and ‘psychonauts’ who spoke to us. And special thanks to Lexi Krupp, Zukerman family and Joseph Lavelle Wilson. Science Vs is a Spotify Studios Original. Listen for free on Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts. Follow us and tap the bell for episode notifications. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, where do you hear?
0:01.7	We're visually working away on our next season
0:04.9	of Science Versus, which I'm really excited about.
0:07.5	I'm excited to share it with you.
0:09.0	It's gonna be in your ears pretty soon.
0:13.5	And to get you pumped, we wanted to do something
0:16.4	a little special.
0:17.3	So if you remember a few months back,
0:20.6	we did this big survey of you, our listeners,
0:23.7	where we asked you to pick your favorite
0:26.7	all-time episodes of Science Versus.
0:30.4	1600 people responded.
0:32.3	Thank you so much.
0:33.5	And so for the next few weeks,
0:35.1	we're gonna play those episodes.
0:36.9	What we are calling the winners
0:39.1	of the inaugural Science Versus Best Episode Competition.
0:43.7	Yes.
0:45.3	Bring in the sound effects.
0:47.1	Puff!
0:48.1	Perth, that's too possibly too many sound effects.
0:51.2	I don't know, is it possible?
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