Lincoln International Psychology Seminars: Q & A with Professor David Nutt

Professor David Nutt takes questions from the audience following his seminar Hidden Casualties: How the War on Drugs Destroyed Vital Medical Research, at the University of Lincoln.
David is a neuropsychopharmacologist specialising in the research of drugs that affect the brain and conditions such as addiction, anxiety, and sleep. He studied medicine at Cambridge University then took his clinical training at Guys Hospital, London. He completed a ground breaking study on benzodiazepine receptor inverse antagonists while working as a clinical scientist between 1978-1982. He moved to the US National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism and returned to the UK in 1988 to become the director of psychopharmacology at the University of Bristol. He now works at Imperial College London where he leads the psychedelic research centre. David is most widely known for work which has questioned public and political assumptions about the relative harms of legal and illegal recreational drugs through objective analysis of real data on harms and risk. He holds visiting professorships in Australia, New Zealand and the Netherlands and is a past president of the British Association of Psychopharmacology and of the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology. He was the recipient of the 2013 John Maddox Prize for promoting sound science and evidence on a matter of public interest, whilst facing difficulty or hostility in doing so. He is past president of the British Neuroscience Association and European Brain Council, a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, Royal College of Psychiatrists and the Academy of Medical Sciences.
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