Is it time to give up alcohol? | Anna Waldstein, David Nutt, Joanna Kavenna
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- Anna Waldstein, David Nutt and Joanna Kavenna discuss what drives our attachment to culturally dominant intoxicants and their possible alternatives.
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There's a drug we use to celebrate, commiserate, flirt with new friends and reconnect with old ones. It's central to our culture and our way of life. And it's called alcohol. But the line between enjoyment and dependence is slim. Globally more people died from alcohol last year than from Covid-19. During lockdown, alcohol-related deaths have been at their highest rate since records began. And it's the leading cause of death in men up to the age of 60.
Do we not act to contain this killer because of its centrality to our culture and the vested interests involved? As an alternative to prohibition, would we be better to normalise other social drugs claimed to be safer such as psychedelics? Or should we recognise that all cultures have used intoxicants, accept the risks and enjoy their effects?
Chair of the Independent Scientific Committee on Drugs, David Nutt, Medical Anthropology and Ethnobotany academic Anna Waldstein, and bestselling author Joanna Kavenna go head to head on desire and restraint. Hosted by Postdoctoral Training Fellow at the Francis Crick Institute Güneş Taylor.
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Dr Anna Waldstein is a Senior Lecturer in Medical Anthropology and Ethnobotany at the University of Kent. Her current research centres on the political and spiritual dimensions of medicinal plant-use, and the historical relationship between medicine and social control, as well as issues related to embodiment, intersubjectivity and spirituality.
Chair of the Independent Scientific Committee on Drugs, David Nutt has been a fierce defender of science based policy since his infamous sacking as drugs advisor to the government.
Güneş Taylor is a training fellow at the Francis Crick Institute, the London-based biomedical research centre. Güneş has debated the implications of genome editing in forums such as Fertility Fest, the Festival of Genomics, and Virtual Futures, as well as on the Guardian's podcast Science Weekly. In 2018, Güneş was awarded the Crick Public Engagement Prize for her efforts in the public communication of science.
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Can we really move on from alcohol? What do you think? To watch the full debate, visit iai.tv/video/dangerous-desires?TH-cam&+comment
No.
There isn't really a replacement.
But people should use a greater diversity of drugs. Most of the problems with alcohol are just the result of people having to use alcohol where it's inappropriate, because other drugs are illegal. E.g. it makes very little sense to me to drink alcohol when you're alone at your house.
replaced alcohol about 10 years ago - best decision of my life
I always hated alcohol. But the first time I had ganja, I knew I loved it. Good for the body and it's fun.
It's always enlightening when one listens to discussions from "The world's leading thinkers" (especially when they label themselves as such)
I was just thinking the same thing haha
Hemingway and many other writers did not drink before writing, the idea they did is a myth, they drank after writing. Hemingway in particular was highly critical of Falkner who sometimes did drink and write, saying he could tell on the page where Falkner started drinking and that he was a lot worse for it. You'd think experts could do some basic research and see through everyday myths.
"Conscious drinking" sounds really tedious.
Right when the gentleman was talking about financial disadvantage in not making a safe alcohol iai directs us away.
no
I think this is is a bunch of useless conjecture that wastes people's time. I could produce a more interesting conversation with a random stranger.
Read David’s book and you’ll understand more about this conversation
Zero information. Empty posturing. Couldn't bring myself to listen to the end.
How about individual personal responsibility? Or are we stupid, weak, unreliable etc. and need some big brother to decide for us?
Most people I know are 'stupid, weak, unreliable etc. and need some big brother'
@@grayzytube That is exactly what Marx, Lenin, Hitler, Mao and Putin said. We have seen that this attitude always leads to genocide.
Do we need more of it?
There is nothing wrong with people seeking advice/ guidance from other people that they trust. There is everything wrong with sociopaths erecting themselves into Messiahs to the ones they deem beneath themselves.
i guess for people that struggle with personal responsability, developing alternatives isn't a bad idea
WhAt AbOuT pErSoNaL rEsPoNsIbIlItY mAn
How about you learn something about brain development and childhood trauma before you suggest people weak and unreliable. And this "individual responsibility" horseshit, oh please. Could you put down your Jordan Peterson books and learn some actual useful things about how people become the way they are, and perhaps why some people are what you might consider "weak". No one is against personal responsibility,, that's besides the point. The world and civilization depends on entire communities and ecosystems. Of course your hero Jordan lobsterson doesn't believe in things climate and environment or societies and communities,unless they push his ideas of course.