The Drug Science Podcast

Dr Ben Sessa was the first doctor to administer MDMA assisted therapy in the 21st century and Christopher Trudgian was one of his very first patients. They both join Professor David Nutt to answer the...

26 Mai 202046min

Adam Winstock joins Professor David Nutt to discuss how drug use has changed in the past 20 years and the data that he has collected as a part of the Global Drug Survey (GDS).Using anonymous online re...

19 Mai 202037min

Lucy Stafford is a medical cannabis patient and advocate. Having spent most of her teenage years in severe pain, dependent on opiates and a feeding tube, discovering medical cannabis has transformed h...

15 Mai 202042min

Professor David Nutt begins season 2 by taking a deep dive into entheogenic plants with a legend of the psychedelic renaissance - Dennis McKenna. Dennis deliberates on his life’s work, ethnobotany, in...

12 Mai 202051min

How can psychedelics be used to help healthy people? In our last episode we heard about how psychedelics can be used to help the sick, but what about the healthy?Wellbeing is becoming an increasingly ...

18 Des 201948min

What is the role of psychedelics in medicine? The question professor David Nutt, Michelle Baker Jones and Matt Jackson will be discussing, in the first EVER live Drug Science podcast recording!The wor...

3 Des 201955min

Professor David Nutt sits down with Mark Johnson and Ian Miller todiscuss the science, and challenge the concept, of addiction.• Why do some people become ‘addicted’ to drugs and others do not?• Is ad...

30 Okt 201941min

Professor David Nutt sits down with Joss Stone, Suzi Gage & Hannah Deacon to discuss the recent progress and biggest issues relating to medicinal cannabis. Many people up and down the country have tur...

25 Sep 201954min