TED

How I’m Helping Thousands Rebuild Their Lives After Prison | Susan Burton | TED

People in Santa Monica weren't going to prison for substance use, for alcoholism. And I thought, why didn't that judge give me a paper and say, "Miss Burton, go to AA." Was I not worth a piece of paper? Was I not worth direction toward a solution?

TBPN

WE'RE BACK: Meta Addiction, Jalapeño, Tim Cook's Last Day, Flocked

If it crosses species barriers, I'm much more likely to agree that something could be addictive.

TED Radio Hour

Rethinking addiction in the age of Ozempic

GLP-1s might be telling us that there's some type of universal pathology when it comes to addiction, and that they are part of how we fix it. Now that is a tantalizing prospect, that there's a general purpose key that unlocks the path to moderation. But that's what GLP-1s seem like they could be, moderation molecules. They don't extinguish our desires, but they help us keep them in check.

The Prof G Pod

We Legalized Sports Gambling. Now We're Paying for It.

It's another thing to have a frictionless gambling app on your phone where you can lose multiple mortgage payments on Malaysian women's doubles badminton, right?

The Origins Podcast

The Science Behind Drinking To Get Sober | Katie Herzog & Lawrence Krauss

One can take this pill a few hours before drinking and behaviorally produce over time a lost craving for alcohol that allows at least some users to have a reasonable alcohol consumption for the rest of their life without having to abstain forever.

The Origins Podcast

The Science Behind Drinking To Get Sober | Katie Herzog & Lawrence Krauss

Given that, it's kind of remarkable that this is a disease for which there's claimed to be no cure. The only approach has been to basically help people abstain for life from drinking. Once they're an alcoholic, they can never have a drink again.