Join us in this episode as we speak to Dr Harriet de Witt, professor of psychiatry and neuropharmacology at the University of Chicago. She shares how she fell in love with the field, studying the animal model of self-administration, and how that work fed into her later research with human participants. As a leading expert on the pharmacology of MDMA, she explores the subtle differences between amphetamine and MDMA, before talking about the results from both her MDMA and LSD studies.

Links

● UChicago Profile

● Amphetamine

● MDMA

● LSD

● MDMA/Amphetamine/Alcohol Sociality Study

● LSD Microdosing & Emotionality Study

Join us in this episode as we speak to Dr. Rachel Andrews, an addiction and harm reduction researcher at the University of Bath, and Hannah Dawes, a PSHE teacher and the creator of the podcast The Exchange. The conversation focuses on the prevalence of vaping in schools, particularly exploring the ways in which vapes have been marketed to children and the patterns of use in schools. Rachel provides data from her team’s analysis of that shows what’s really in the vapes students are using, while Hannah lends her perspective within schools, explaining how a supportive approach to students using vapes is more successful than punitive measures.

Links

Nicotine

Drug Science Blog

Spice

Cannabis

Teaching About Nicotine and Vaping

Daniel Spargo-Mabbs Foundation

The Exchange
Spice Comic

In this episode of the Drug Science Podcast, Prof Nutt speaks with Erica Rex, author of the book Seeing What is There, which explores the complex history of psychedelic therapy. She shares her own experiences with psychedelic-assisted therapy, while providing context on the guardrails that are necessary for these treatments to maximize benefits and minimize harms. Viewing psychedelics as therapeutic accelerants, Erica speaks on the current state of mental health treatments and explores how complex trauma and other mental health problems could be better treated.

Erica Instagram
Erica Substack

Links

● Seeing What is There

● The Culture Is the Poison: Why Psychedelics Are Dangerous Medicine in a Neoliberal Society

● Psilocybin

● MDMA

● 5-MeO-DMT

● More From Erica