Science Actually is a podcast by Imperial College London students and staff. Are you keen to find out more about current and future research, and to discover how not every question will have one answer? In each episode a member of our podcast team interviews an Imperial expert to see if they have the answers to our burning questions. In the first series, we dive into myths surrounding different aspects of student life: memory, food, sleep and partying. The second series revolves around the science that is shaping our future. Intro by Clara Tillous Oliva, jingle by Hendrik Vogt, artwork by Ali Al-Sikab. Check out our website (https://www.imperial.ac.uk/medicine/study/undergraduate/science-actually-podcast/), or follow us on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/science_actually_podcast/) and Twitter (@ScienceAccPod)
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Science and Drugs: Can drugs of abuse have health benefits?
In this episode of Science Actually, Katie Addy discusses drugs of abuse and their potential health benefits with our guest Dr Balázs Szigeti. Balázs is a researcher at the Centre for Psychedelic Research at Imperial College London. He has a background in computational neuroscience and started a collaboration with the Global Drug Survey to quantitatively compare the dose of recreational users of various drugs such as MDMA with the scientific literature. Balázs tells us a bit about his research into MDMA and psychedelics. He explains the difficulty of researching drugs of abuse, their potential benefits to people suffering with mental health disorders and the difficulty in regulation of such drugs. He also tackles our main question: can drugs of abuse have health benefits? Check out our website (https://www.imperial.ac.uk/medicine/study/undergraduate/science-actually-podcast/), or follow us on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/science_actually_podcast/) and Twitter (@ScienceAccPod)