Professor David Nutt - The Truth About Drugs

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🗓️ 7 August 2016

⏱️ 111 minutes

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Summary

David Nutt is a British psychiatrist and neuropsychopharmacologist specialising in the research of drugs that affect the brain and conditions such as addiction, anxiety and sleep.

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Chapters:

00:00 Trailer.
02:09 Brian’s thoughts on the episode.
06:09 Brian’s Introduction.
06:51 Why LSD was made illegal.
15:14 Alcohol, the original recreational drug.
18:28 Influence on Government and media attitude to recreational drugs.
20:17 Scoring drugs.
24:38 Social, class and racial attitudes to use of alcohol and other recreational drugs.
27:04 Ecstasy versus Equasy paper.
31:15 Calls for resignation and the sacking of David Nutt.
33:43 A youthful fascination with LSD and its effect on America.
38:11 Discovering profound impact of LSD on the brain.
43:01 Those that cannot change their minds, cannot change anything.
48:15 Analogy of drug laws being the worst censorship of research since the ban on the telescope.
51:53 David’s motivation for constantly striving for what he believes.
55:00 Brexit, a sad day for young scientists.
58:58 Dilemma of uneducated use of legal drugs versus benefits of illegal drugs used responsibly.
1:07:03 The future of research on psychedelics.
1:11:38 David’s hope for the future use of psychedelics.
1:14:14 What he never talks about.
1:15:24 Why is there no Professor David Nutt counterpart in America?
1:18:43 Judges rely on us. Scientists can change policy.
1:23:17 Risks of speaking out.
1:24:36 What to tell your kids about drug use.
1:27:04 Use of medicinal cannabis in America and implication for policy in the UK.
1:30:33 Success Secrets.
1:31:24 Inspirational successful person.
1:33:12 David Nutts obituary.
1:34:56 What he thinks other people think him crazy for believing.
1:35:17 What keeps David Nutt awake at night.
1:38:06 Phone call to the 20 hear old David Nutt.
1:38:55 Best advice ever received.
1:40:57 Advice to the 20 year old who is an aspiring scientist or questioning drug use.
1:42:44 His final good advice to anyone thinking about using illegal drugs.
1:46:04 Brian’s summing up.

Show Notes:
David Nutt on Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Nutt
David Nutt on Twitter
https://twitter.com/profdavidnutt?lang=en-gb
David Nutt Blog
http://www.drugscience.org.uk/blog/
https://profdavidnutt.wordpress.com/

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Transcript

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0:00.0	and I'm just going to kick it off and introduce you and away we go.
0:04.0	Once drugs become used for fun, they become demonized.
0:12.0	There's also this sort of puritanical thing that you
0:14.8	nothing should be pleasurable unless you work hard at it. Isn't it outrageous?
0:20.8	Something that was shown to be really promising as a treatment,
0:26.7	as a way of exploring the brain, gets banned simply because it's changing the way people vote.
0:39.0	It wasn't just changing their politics, it was changing music, it was changing arts, and it, you know, but it was potentially changing health.
0:44.0	Drug prohibition is going to do your kids more harm than a rational drug policy.
0:52.0	Scientists can change policy because judges rely on us and if
0:56.8	their scientists don't speak up and tell the truth then the law will
0:59.7	continue to be inaccurate and biased.
1:04.0	You've got to be the first person on the moon,
1:06.0	you've got to be the first person to study
1:08.0	LSD using modern imaging.
1:10.0	Someone has to do it.
2:15.3	If you cannot change your mind you cannot change anything. Oh, I'm going to do. The Professor David Nutt is a man who's been on our radar for many many years because let's be honest on London real we like to talk about psychedelics and the effects that other compounds have on our brains have on the
2:20.9	spirit world and have on the world around us.
2:24.0	And Professor Nutt has been at the forefront of doing research on such things as
2:28.8	Silasibbons, on LSD, on MDMA, and finding out how they can actually help us as medicine.
2:35.0	And working with the Beckley Foundation, our good friend Amanda Fielding,
2:39.0	they have published some extraordinary studies on how these substances affect the brain and what we can learn from them
2:45.8	and how we can one day use this stuff as medicine. And you know David has a fascinating career,
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