Introduction to the History of Drugs

A drug is a substance that, when introduced to the body, produces some non-nutritional physiological effect. This includes medicinal drugs as well as recreational drugs, and they take many forms. Focusing predominately on medicinal drugs, what is the history of our relationship with these substances? How did the ancients attempt to cure disease? How do we do it now? How has this changed over the millennia? This is a fascinating story, that traces human thought from the Stone Age all the way to the modern pharmaceutical industry. Let's learn together, about the history of drugs!
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I dont do drugs I am the drug

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So, to quote the late, great George Carlin, “Whatever you shoot, drop, snort, smoke or rub into your belly button “ is a drug.

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I love how you explain things in such a simple, easy-to-understand way, without sounding like you're dumbing anything down for your audience. That said, I was a little disappointed to hear you talk about average life expectancy without explaining that one big reason why it was so low was because of all the infant and child mortality, rather than people who lived to adulthood only living until 40 or so.

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Looking forward to this wonderful series.

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Man I can foresee a lot of conspiratorial hate coming to this series.

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Medics today:

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Now do a scientific episode with you trying all the drugs.

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I was expecting a tighter focus from the title, but the breadth of what is to be covered has got me really excited. Thanks Professor!

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I have visited the Pharmacy museum in Basel Switzerland recently, it was very interesting and I start searching in this area. Then I found your videos. It’s exactly what I want to know. Thank you very much indeed to make these kind of high quality videos.

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Prof Dave this series is a fantastic idea and to start it with those charts on life expectancy is very important. I was showing to some of my family member the effects of science discoveries ( quantum physics and microelectronics) on our lives and life quality trying to give them a sense of respect for real science and those Giants on whose shoulders we have built our modern lifestyle, i will pass to them this video and encourage them to follow the whole series. From Singapore thank you Prof Dave.🙏🏻👍🇸🇬

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2nd time around this series is still just as good, if not better. I really hope you do another historical deep dive into some other topic, like trade or warfare. It would be awesome to see a history of sciences too, although you cover a ton of it in this series and that could be too broad of a subject. Still, I’d pay a dollar to see that.