Professor David Nutt is the neuropsychopharmacologist who built the world’s first science-based drug-harm scale, led the pioneering LSD brain-scan, and lost his post as the UK government’s chief drug adviser after declaring that alcohol is deadlier than LSD. He’s the author of Drugs Without the Hot Air, Drink?, Cannabis, and Psychedelics, and he’s now engineering a hangover-free alternative to booze.
Drug policy isn’t broken by accident—it’s broken by design. From kids denied life-saving cannabis to a global war on psychedelics that stalled mental-health breakthroughs for half a century, Professor Nutt reveals how politics trumped evidence, how psychedelic science is staging a comeback, and why the next revolution in public health might be an alcohol you can enjoy without poisoning your liver.
Expect to learn why alcohol tops the real league table of harm, how the famous drug-harm chart was built (and banned), what happened inside the MRI during the first LSD scan, the truth about cannabis and schizophrenia, how MDMA treats PTSD and ketamine tackles addiction, why prohibition breeds deadlier drugs like fentanyl, how hangover-free “Alcarelle” targets GABA without the toxic fallout, the regulatory red tape still strangling psychedelic research, practical advice for safer drug policy, and much more…
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@wodcast_channel Do you know the secret history of ‘Empathy’? Professor Nutt taught us so much about the history of language, censorship and prohibition, and it was intriguing to learn how changing one word could affect policy for decades to come. If you haven’t already, check out our interview on Episode 3 of the Wodcast! Out now on Spotify, YouTube and Apple Podcasts 🎧 #wodcast#intothewords#davidnutt#empathy♬ original sound – Basem khaled متخصص بشره
The Secret History of ‘Empathy’ with Professor Nutt
Professor David Nutt reveals the secret history of the word ’empathy’ in an intriguing discussion that highlights how changes in language can profoundly affect policy for decades.
His teachings shed light on the history of language, censorship, and prohibition, demonstrating the significant power vested in specific words. The conversation, featured on Episode 3 of the Wodcast, underscores how altering a single word can influence societal decisions and government policies over extended periods. This exploration of the evolution and impact of language is available on Spotify, YouTube, and Apple Podcasts, offering listeners a deeper understanding of linguistic influence on historical and contemporary issues.
Keywords: history of empathy, Professor Nutt, language and policy, censorship and prohibition, Wodcast interviews, changing word meanings, societal impact of language, vocabulary evolution, historical linguistics, policy influence
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Alan Lodge, Black & White Surveillance Salon de Normandy by The Community Room 412, Normandy Hôtel, 7 Rue de l’Échelle, 75001 Paris, France October 22nd – 25th, 2020.
Black & White Surveillance is a presentation of photography and archive materials surveying Alan Lodge’s extensive counter-documentation of police surveillance and his past involvement in legislative action and activism.
Alan ‘Tash’ Lodge (born 1953 in Luton, Bedfordshire) is a photographer based in Nottingham who has focused on alternative movements since the mid 1970s. After a short career as an emergency paramedic in the London Ambulance Service, Lodge took up photography and documented the early ‘free festivals’ in 1978. In 1985 Lodge joined the Peace Convoyon its way to Stonehenge where a festival was planned to take place and he photographed The Battle of the Beanfield. In 1987 Lodge published the booklet Stonehenge: Solstice Ritual, a photographic account of the rituals taking place at Stonehenge. Since the events at Stonehenge, Lodge has covered a range of issues including the Travellers movement, Reclaim the Streets, the road protests in the mid 1990s and the campaign against the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994. Lodge is also well known for his documentation of police surveillance, in which he received a ‘Winston Award’ for in 1998. Since the late 1990s Lodge has been a major contributor to the media network Indymedia.
In recent years Lodge has continued to extensively document his involvement and attendance of public demonstrations and festivals, and has actively involved himself in various welfare and advice agencies. He has worked as a field worker for the Release organisation and has sat on the management committees of several charities, including Festival Welfare Services, the Travellers Aid Trust and the Standing Conference on Drug Abuse (Scoda). Lodge’s website One Eye on the Road operates as an extensive archive of his prolific photographic career, as well as an essential resource providing legal information and advice. Lodge has successfully taken the police to court and won damages for false claims made against him. He has also pursued a number of complaints against the police.
Lodge’s work has appeared in publications & journals including Guardian, Independent, i-D, Select, Sounds, DJ, Radio Times, New Statesmen & Society and Squall. His photographs have also been used in TV documentaries across the BBC and Channel 4, including most recently for Jeremy Deller’s BBC documentary piece Everybody in the Place: an Incomplete History of Britain 1984-1992.
An ongoing diary of stuff, allsorts, and things wot happen ……
I am a photographer with a special interest to document the lives of travelling people and those attending Festivals, Stonehenge etc, what the press often describe as ‘New Age Travellers’ and many social concerns.
With my photography, I have tried to say something of the wide variety of people engaged in ‘Alternatives’, and youths’ many sub-cultures and to present a more positive view.
I have photographed many free and commercial events and have, in recent years, extended my work to include dance parties (’rave culture’), gay-rights events, environmental direct actions, and protest against the Criminal Justice Act and more recently, issues surrounding the Global Capitalism.
Further, police surveillance has recently become a very important subject for me!
In recognition of this work, received a ‘Winston’ from Privacy International, at the 1998 ‘Big Brother’ Awards. The citation reads: “Alan Lodge is a photographer who has spent more than a decade raising awareness of front-line police surveillance activities, particularly the endemic practice of photographing demonstrators and activists”.
I am based in Nottingham, UK.
Quotes & Thoughts
“Cowardice asks the question, ‘Is it safe?’ Expediency asks the question, ‘Is it politic?’ Vanity asks the question, ‘Is it popular?’ But, conscience asks the question, ‘Is it right?’
And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because one’s conscience tells one that it is right.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
“In Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance.
In Switzerland they had brotherly love – they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock!!”
Harry Lime [Orsen Wells] The Third Man 1949
“Civilization will not attain to its perfection, until the last stone from the last church, falls on the last priest.”
Emile Zola
“….I have an important message to deliver to all the cute people all over the world.
If you’re out there and you’re not cute, maybe you’re beautiful, I just want to tell you somethin’- there’s more of us ugly mother-fuckers than you are, hey-y, so watch out now…”
Frank Zappa
