Neuroscientist Ranks Every Drug By How Hard They Are to Quit! Tier List

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Professor David Nutt is a neuro­psychopharmacologist, former UK chief drug adviser, and author of Drugs Without the Hot Air, Drink?, Cannabis, and Psychedelics. He built the first evidence-based Drug Harm Scale, ran the world’s first LSD brain-scan, and is now engineering hangover-free “alcohol” with GABA science.

Drug policy often punishes the wrong substances. In this rapid-fire tier-list episode, Nutt ranks ten headline drugs—LSD to fentanyl—by real-world harm, exposing how politics, potency and route of use twist our perceptions and our laws.

Expect to learn why alcohol and tobacco still out-kill every illegal drug, how MDMA became both a rave staple and a prescription therapy, the science behind ketamine’s antidepressant buzz and its bladder danger, why 2 mg of fentanyl can be fatal, how smoking vs injecting changes heroin risk, what makes high-THC cannabis a new drug entirely, the true neurotoxicity story of cocaine, why psilocybin and LSD aren’t addictive, how Sentia mimics a glass of wine without the damage, and much more…

Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
00:55 LSD
09:55 MDMA
24:16 Cocaine
34:21 Psilocybin
37:09 Fentanyl
40:57 Cannabis
43:35 Tobacco
45:00 Alcohol
49:49 Ketamine
51:20 Heroin
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