Psychedelics for Addiction Recovery | Matthew Johnson, PhD
Finding Genius Podcast
Richard Jacobs
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 6 March 2024
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
When you think of what addiction recovery looks like, you probably don't envision the consumption of psychedelic drugs. On today's episode, Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Johns Hopkins and author of 47 articles on psychedelic drugs, Matthew Johnson, PhD, explains why and how psychedelic therapy might have a place in addiction recovery after all.
His area of expertise lies in understanding the ways in which psychedelic drugs can serve as behavior change agents. This idea is consistent with neuroscience research findings, countless anecdotal stories, and ceremonial use of psychedelic substances in a variety of indigenous cultures. Intrigued by the idea?
Tune in to hear all the details and learn more, including:
- How Dr. Johnson characterizes the commonality between people who benefit from the use of psychedelics (and it's not about religion or spirituality)
- How psychedelic drug use could help those who suffer from addiction to cocaine, alcohol, or tobacco, as well as cancer-related depression, anorexia, and PTSD
- When psilocybin pills could become an FDA-approved option for clinical treatment of a variety of disorders
Tune in to hear the full discussion.
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| 0:30.1 | This is the Finding Genius Podcast. |
| 0:33.0 | That is Richard Jacobs. |
| 0:35.0 | Hello, this is Richard Jacobs with the Finding Genius Podcast. |
| 0:41.0 | I have Matthew Johnson. He's an expert on |
| 0:43.7 | Psychodelics. He's an associate professor at Johns Hopkins. He's working with |
| 0:48.4 | Psychodelics for possibly 15 plus years and he's published 119 papers, 47 specifically on psychedelics. |
| 0:55.9 | He's helped to establish safety guidelines and to guide research into them. |
| 1:00.2 | And I know that Tim Ferris, amongst a lot of other people very interested in |
| 1:04.8 | psychodelics and how they could be used to help people with PTSD etc so |
| 1:08.7 | Matthew welcome thanks for coming Richard great to be with you yeah if you don't mind, what's your history, like why this area of research got you into it? |
| 1:18.0 | Yeah, so it's a fascinating area. |
| 1:21.0 | I'm an experimental psychologist or a research psychologist and I'm one of the things I do is |
| 1:28.4 | study decision-making particularly in addictions. |
| 1:33.4 | And so for me, it's the most interesting thing about psychedelics |
| 1:40.3 | is their ability to serve as behavior change agents. |
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