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#153 - Meet The Neuroscientist Who Does Recreational Heroin

#153 - Meet The Neuroscientist Who Does Recreational Heroin4 days ago1 h 14 min

<p>🧠 JOIN THE GIANT&#39;S SHOULDER FAMILY</p><p>Become a YouTube Member for exclusive episodes, early access + ad-free viewing πŸ‘‡ </p><p>https://www.youtube.com/@thegiantsshoulder/join</p><p><br></p><p>Carl Hart is a human drug scientist β€” the Mamie Phipps Clark Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry at Columbia University and Chair of its Department of Psychology, who runs one of the very few laboratories on earth licensed to give people real doses of crack cocaine, methamphetamine and MDMA. His volunteers live inside a sealed four-room lab for weeks at a time, originally built for NASA to study astronauts, with no contact with the outside world while he measures their sleep, their food intake and how much they speak. He started that work believing drugs were what had gone wrong in neighbourhoods like the one he grew up in. Thirty years of data refused to agree with him.</p><p><br></p><p>Expect to learn why there is no such thing as drug addiction in a rat, why &quot;hard drugs&quot; is a category the human body doesn&#39;t recognise, why he refuses to use the word &quot;psychedelic&quot;, how one extra methyl group is the only difference between methamphetamine and the main ingredient in Adderall, why psychiatry still runs on a theory formalised in 1967 when only six neurotransmitters were known, what heroin actually feels like and why the real danger is constipation rather than overdose, why addiction tracks access rather than pharmacology, and much more…</p><p><br></p><p>SPONSORS</p><p>Get Jenni Your Intelligent Research Assistant (GIANT20 for 20% off) - http://jenni.ai/?utm_source=youtube&amp;utm_medium=inf&amp;utm_campaign=thegiantsshoulder</p><p><br></p><p>GS EPISODES MENTIONED</p><p>David Luke - Meet the Professor of Paranormal Consciousness - DMT Entities, Telepathy Tapes &amp; OBE&#39;s: https://youtu.be/qLKD1gt1X5o</p><p><br></p><p>GUEST LINKS</p><p>Columbia Psychiatry Profile: https://www.columbiapsychiatry.org/profile/carl-hart-phd</p><p>Personal Website: https://drcarlhart.com/</p><p>X: https://x.com/drcarlhart</p><p>Drug Use for Grown-Ups: Chasing Liberty in the Land of Fear: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_Use_for_Grown-Ups</p><p>High Price: A Neuroscientist&#39;s Journey of Self-Discovery: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Price_(book)</p><p><br></p><p>FOLLOW EVAN</p><p>https://x.com/evan_mcgl</p><p><br></p><p>TIMESTAMPS</p><p>0:00:00 Trailer</p><p>0:02:16 Why Human Rights Became His Whole Mission</p><p>0:03:45 &quot;I Believed the Bullshit About Drugs&quot;</p><p>0:07:42 The Brain-Imaging Studies That Prove Nothing</p><p>0:10:32 Why &quot;Hard Drugs&quot; Is a Made-Up Category</p><p>0:12:42 There Is No Such Thing as Addiction in a Rat</p><p>0:14:18 Put Cocaine on Your Gum and See What Happens</p><p>0:15:50 Rat Models for Autism, ADHD and Depression</p><p>0:18:03 How Many Hoops to Give a Human Crack Cocaine</p><p>0:20:38 &quot;Psychedelic&quot; Is a Political Word, Not a Real Thing</p><p>0:22:40 Why the One-Receptor Story Is Bullshit</p><p>0:23:56 Psychiatry Is Still Running on a 1967 Theory</p><p>0:31:17 One Methyl Group: Meth vs Adderall</p><p>0:34:41 The Lab NASA Built for Astronauts</p><p>0:37:45 The Phenomenology Gap Nobody Studies</p><p>0:39:01 &quot;I Was a Virgin to These Drugs, And Not Even Curious&quot;</p><p>0:44:14 What Heroin Actually Feels Like</p><p>0:47:04 The Real Danger Is Constipation</p><p>0:52:47 The Overdose Myth He&#39;s Trying to Destroy</p><p>0:55:39 Education, Not Harm Reduction</p><p>0:58:40 Addiction Isn&#39;t About Drugs, It&#39;s About Access</p><p>1:01:38 Not Whether to Legalise, But How</p><p>1:05:30 Dublin&#39;s Cocaine Problem, Evan Pushes Back</p><p>1:06:46 &quot;That&#39;s Quite Arrogant of You&quot;</p><p>1:09:05 The Same Argument That Delayed Emancipation</p><p>1:12:50 &quot;We Put People on the Moon. This Is Not Complicated.&quot;</p><p><br></p><p>.....Email for sponsorship enquiries: evan@thegiantsshoulder.com</p>