And the Hello and welcome to serious inquiries only this is episode 455. I'm Thomas Smith

excited for the usual end of the month flurry of episodes

but I'm really excited to bring you these two because I learned a ton.

Dr. Janessa Seymour is back one of my favorite guests and she's going to teach us about addictive drugs and addiction and some of the policy around that some of the research around that and actually why there's so little that is useful there.

And this is a just a jam-packed two-parter.

I learned so much.

Part one focuses on the things I just mentioned, drugs, drug use, what is addiction, how does it work,

like what, how do you even define it, a lot of those kinds of things, really fascinating stuff,

and then part 2 is about solutions, both the terrible solutions that don't do

anything that for some reason we've decided to try and also what solutions

might actually possibly help

what ways we can deal with addiction. I learned so much about opioids, fentanyl,

like what's going on with fentanyl? It's just nice to get a lot of this information from a non-drug war source.

And Dr. Janessa Seymour is someone I trust to stick to what the science actually

says without the moralizing.

So I really think you're going to enjoy this.

I, like I said, I learned a lot in these two episodes and they're all ready.

So if you get done with this one, you want to hear the next one hop on

Patreon slash serious pot I'll have it up right away for patrons I want to thank you

for supporting the show and there's plenty more end of the month SIO where this came

from and dare I say it where there's woke.

We're very busy at the Smith household and we can't wait for you to hear why.

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