Matthew Perry's Death, Ketamine & Addiction with Bill Brigham
Psych Legal Pop Podcast
Tess & Brooke Brigham
4.2 • 610 Ratings
🗓️ 29 August 2024
⏱️ 66 minutes
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In this episode we discuss the death of Matthew Perry and the recent criminal charges against doctors and others who supplied him with the drug ketamine which caused his death. We are joined by our uncle, Bill Brigham, who is an expert in the field of substance abuse and addiction. We discuss the pros and cons of the use of ketamine and other psychedelic drugs to treat mental health disorders, the intersection of celebrity and substance abuse, and current trends in substance abuse.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome back to the psych legal podcast. |
| 0:05.7 | This is a podcast where we talk about popular culture through the lens of an attorney and a therapist. |
| 0:11.0 | I'm Brooke Brigham. |
| 0:11.8 | I'm the attorney. |
| 0:13.0 | And I'm Tess Brigham. |
| 0:14.0 | I'm the therapist. |
| 0:15.4 | And today we have a very special guest. |
| 0:17.5 | He's actually our only repeat guest. |
| 0:20.6 | Yes. It's actually our only repeat guest. Yes. Who's been here last now. |
| 0:27.6 | I mean, Bill, you keep getting these bookings. I mean, this is really. Yes. How lucky are you? |
| 0:34.8 | So we're here with our uncle Bill Brigham, who appeared previously on episode 149 when we talked about sports and popular culture. |
| 0:46.6 | And he previously worked for the NFL substance abuse intervention program. |
| 0:53.5 | We talked a little bit about that. So we have him |
| 0:55.9 | here today because we want to talk about Matthew Perry's death. And there have been recently |
| 1:04.6 | charges brought against several people and we'll get into that and what those charges are and what's happening |
| 1:12.4 | with that. |
| 1:13.2 | But first, Bill, if you want to just give us a little bit of information about your background |
| 1:19.1 | in substance abuse. |
| 1:22.1 | Yeah. |
| 1:23.0 | So I said 40 plus years in the substance abuse field and residential treatment and methadone |
| 1:30.2 | maintenance and for 20 some years with the NFL substance abuse program. |
| 1:36.6 | So it worked over that period of time, obviously a lot of different drugs were the drugs |
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