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Tim Ferriss · 2023-05-25

Thinking Differently About Addiction and Mental Health — Dr. Nora Volkow

Thinking Differently About Addiction and Mental Health — Dr. Nora Volkow

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Demerol

“Yeah, that's interesting, because I love Demerol. I probably shouldn't be saying these things, but what happened to me, I was in a horrible car accident.”— Dr. Nora Volkow
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Adderall

“with counterfeit pills that are sold like Adderall, which is an amphetamine, or like Ativan, which is a benzodiazepine”— Dr. Nora Volkow
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Ativan

“or like Ativan, which is a benzodiazepine that you use for anxiety or sleep, or even disguised as Vicodin, which is an opioid medication for pain.”— Dr. Nora Volkow
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Vicodin

“or even disguised as Vicodin, which is an opioid medication for pain. They sell them on the web, and they are less expensive than the real thing.”— Dr. Nora Volkow
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Narcan

“xylazine does not respond to Narcan, which is the antidote that we use for fentanyl.”— Dr. Nora Volkow
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morphine

“with my arm dislocated, sort of sticking out of my chest, for hours, and they gave me morphine. And I remember thinking two things. The first was, This is incredible.”— Tim Ferriss
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psilocybin

“The data is strongest for the use of psilocybin for depression, particularly for studies have shown, and I think that even though the sample sizes are not very large”— Dr. Nora Volkow
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Chantix

“the effects actually appear to be larger than the ones that you see with medications that we used for the treatment of nicotine dependence, just like Chantix or nicotine replacement therapies.”— Dr. Nora Volkow
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ketamine

“I went through two weeks of ketamine infusion several years ago, not because I was depressed, but because I wanted to be able to speak firsthand to the experience”— Tim Ferriss
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Salvinorin A

“even something that is a non-classical psychedelic, let's say Salvinorin A, so you have a kappa-opioid agonist, may have some really interesting applications for minimizing damage after stroke”— Tim Ferriss