EP7: Pioneer Dr. David Nutt Confronts Drugs & the Brain

In This Episode I had the honour of speaking with Dr. David Nutt

David is a psychiatrist and professor of neuroscience who specializes in studying the impact of drugs on the human brain.

In 2010, The Times Eureka Science Magazine included David in the 100 most important figures in British Science, and the only psychiatrist.

David was famously fired as drug advisor to the British Government in the early 2000s for stating in a research paper that alcohol and tobacco were more harmful than many illegal drugs including LSD, ecstasy and cannabis.

David and I had a wide ranging conversation about his career; his public dismissal as government drug advisor; various drugs and their effects on the brain; as well as his current drug research looking at effects of psilocybin on depression.

What a beauty!