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PT334 – Prof. David Nutt – The Human Brain, Addiction, and Telling the Truth About Drugs

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Life Sciences, Science, Medicine, Health & Fitness

4.6598 Ratings

🗓️ 5 July 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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In this episode, David interviews David Nutt: Psychiatrist, Founder/Chief Scientific Officer at Drug Science, Chief Research Officer at Awakn Life Sciences, and Professor of Neuropsychopharmacology at Imperial College London.

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Hello everybody. Welcome to another psychedelic today podcast. This time we have two

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Englishmen called David. Me, David Trapkin and the one and only Professor David

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Nut. Fantastic conversation. I literally had the strategy of let's talk about

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everything and anything. Squeeze it in to an hour. So we go all over the place. We had the

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opportunity of talking in person at Toronto, the From Research to Reality Conference last month.

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Wonderful to meet him. He's been a legend in my life back in England because he's outspoken because he believes

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in the truth, you know, that we deserve to know the truth around science and around drug

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policy.

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So it's just a fantastic person, wonderful sense of humor and incredibly down to earth for one of the most

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kind of quoted and cited scientist researchers in Britain to be that down to earth and approachable.

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What a gift that is.

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Another gift to his I noticed is his role at Imperial College being a mentor and figurehead

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for so many junior scientists kind of

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coming through the ranks. You know, obviously Robin Harris and Ros Watts, but a lot of the

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current cohort of scientists that are going through Imperial that really look up to him and I got to

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chat with quite a few of them in Toronto. It's kind of that

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farther figure that brings authority, respect and confidence in doing this groundbreaking work

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