257 - Carl Hart: The Neuroscience of Drugs and Their Role in the Good Life

257 - Carl Hart: The Neuroscience of Drugs and Their Role in the Good Life

Carl Hart is Mamie Phipps Clark Professor of Psychology at Columbia University, where he researches the behavioral and neuropharmacological effects of psychoactive drugs in humans. In this wide-ranging conversation, Robinson and Carl discuss drugs from many different angles, touching on the neuroscience of addiction, the opioid crisis, drugs’ connections to poverty, the roles they can play in a creative life, and more. Carl’s most recent book is Drug Use for Grown-Ups (2021, Penguin).


Drug Use for Grown-Ups: https://a.co/d/efgXuJK


OUTLINE

00:00:49 Introduction

00:03:14 What Is a Drug?

00:14:58 DARE and Drug Education

00:26:07 Rodrigo Duterte and the Drug War in the Philippines

00:39:25 Studying Drugs in the Lab

00:49:07 Does Addiction Change the Brain?

00:58:12 On the Opioid Crisis

01:10:42 How Should We Solve the Opioid Crisis?

01:14:01 What Is the Connection Between Drugs and Poverty?

01:18:21 How Do Drugs Affect the Brain?

01:28:27 How Can Drugs Improve Your Creativity?

01:36:04 Should Science Inform Drug Policy?


Robinson’s Website: http://robinsonerhardt.com


Robinson Erhardt researches symbolic logic and the foundations of mathematics at Stanford University, where is also a student in the Law School.

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242 - Victor Davis Hanson: President Donald J. Trump and the Fate of the United States

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241 - Raphael Bousso: The Cold Truth About Quantum Mechanics

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240 - Peter Godfrey-Smith: Cuttlefish, Octopuses, and the Consciousness of Mysterious Minds

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239 - Ned Block: Consciousness, Artificial Intelligence, and the Philosophy of Mind

239 - Ned Block: Consciousness, Artificial Intelligence, and the Philosophy of Mind

Ned Block is Silver Professor at New York University in the Departments of Philosophy and Psychology, where he works on the philosophy of mind, the philosophy of neuroscience, and cognitive science. I...

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238 - Barry Loewer: What Is The Philosophy of Science?

238 - Barry Loewer: What Is The Philosophy of Science?

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237 - Tim Maudlin: A Masterclass on Special Relativity

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236 - David Albert: A Masterclass on Time’s Arrow

236 - David Albert: A Masterclass on Time’s Arrow

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