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Benjamin Fong joins us to talk about his new book Quick Fixes: Drugs in America from Prohibition to the 21st century Binge. We chat about the uniquely American obsession with drugs, the war machine’s love affair with meth, the burgeoning psychedelic movement, and why everyone is so desperate to get high. 

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hannah mihulka

Great episode. As someone who hates the medical model, but needs my meds in order to stay functional in society and keep a job...it's a tough one. I do believe I need to take them in order to stay sober, make good decisions, and all that, but that being said I would like to know what it's like without them. Unfortunately, I'm not God not a Evil Doctor nor balanced enough to try it out -- short story, take ur meds, but they aren't the whole answer.

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Connor Sick

Fantastic episode, extremely well articulated throughout. I’m a therapist who works with many people with chronic mental health conditions that may require treatment through therapy or medication at some point or throughout their lives, although most people do not. Many people are misdiagnosed with a chronic mental illness because the medical model of mental health care has necessitated a billable diagnosis for any form of ongoing treatment. I wish more therapists and prescribers in my profession shared these observations

Connor Sick

aside Stealing Fire is an interesting book which presciently lionized the psychopharmeceutical-psychedelics movement and greatly overindulges psychedelics in Silicon Valley, which I was assigned in grad school in training for my profession circa 2016. Edit: I’ve since started re-reading this book. It’s a transhumanist text. The authors talk a lot of transhumanism. Why was I assigned this in social work grad school