Understanding the Social Determinants of Addiction | Aaron Ferguson and Zach Rhoads
Finding Genius Podcast
Richard Jacobs
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 5 March 2024
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
"There are benefits to all mind-altering activities or substances…and it can almost be radical to even recognize that in a culture that seems hell-bent on convincing us all that drugs are evil and that drugs are the cause of the problem.
What we've tried to do with The Social Exchange…is to broaden the definition of addiction beyond just drugs and to broaden it beyond just an over-medicalized mentality around it," says Aaron Ferguson, co-host of The Social Exchange podcast.
On today's episode, he is joined by his co-host Zach Rhoads to discuss the creation, development, and goals of the podcast, as well as what they've learned by interviewing countless experts and pain patients who've experienced addiction on a firsthand basis.
Among many topics, they discuss differing viewpoints and arguments surrounding the concept and experience of addiction, the philosophy of harm reduction, and chemical dependency versus environmental influences.
Tune in for all the details of this compelling and passionate conversation.
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| 0:30.3 | 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 Aaron Ferguson and Zach Rhodes. They co-host |
| 0:44.3 | the social exchange podcast where they talk a lot about addiction issues and |
| 0:48.9 | how that affects the individuals, their families, society, and all the issues surrounding it. |
| 0:54.2 | So glad to have you guys, thanks for coming. |
| 0:56.8 | Thank you so much for having us. |
| 0:58.2 | Thanks a lot, Richard. |
| 0:59.6 | Yeah. |
| 1:00.6 | What's the backstory? |
| 1:01.6 | Why focus on these issues, you know, unfortunately, you know, my guess is that you know people that have had addiction problems or, you know, God's a bit ahead of yourself, but what's your backstory and why you did this? |
| 1:12.8 | I mean, I'll take it, I'm speaking, I'll kick it off and then I'll |
| 1:16.1 | with the parent to clean up the mess I make. |
| 1:19.7 | But I started off, I work with children and with families. I do family counseling and so I started a |
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