This Is Powerful With Paul Sculfor19 Sep 2024

S1 Ep10: David Nutt

This week special guest Professor David John Nutt helps us to examine the impact alcohol has on our brains, behaviour and longer term health. We have an eye-opening conversation about how monitored doses of LSD may cure alcoholism, how many subsidised private bars are actually part of the UK Houses of Parliament and the alternative ‘functional beverages’ which might just replace alcohol altogether.

Professor Nutt is an English neuropsychopharmacologist who’s controversial removal from the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs was a direct result of a study he published, which showed how alcohol is more harmful than heroin. Specialising in the research of drugs and alcohol and their relation to addiction, anxiety, and sleep, Professor Nutt is also the chairman of Drug Science, a non-profit which he founded in 2010 to provide independent, evidence-based information on drugs.

If you or someone you know is struggling with addiction, there are plenty of resources on the Stride Foundation website:
https://stridefoundation.com/

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Find more about Drug Science on the website
https://www.drugscience.org.uk/

And on the Drug Science Podcast
https://www.drugscience.org.uk/podcast

Links to David’s books
Drink - https://www.waterstones.com/book/drink/professor-david-nutt/9781529393231
Cannabis - https://www.waterstones.com/book/cannabis-seeing-through-the-smoke/professor-david-nutt/9781529360493
Psychedelics - https://www.waterstones.com/book/psychedelics/professor-david-nutt/9781529360530

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