Ep27: Bradford Martins on his feral childhood, and reconnecting with a sense of community and home

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Bradford Martins, MD, PhD is a board-certified addiction psychiatrist based at a psychiatric clinic in New Haven, Connecticut where he supports folks navigating substance use disorders, including through implementing community-based models for the prevention and treatment. Dr. Martins is also an Assistant Professor Adjunct at Yale University conducting research in both the Bassir Nia Lab to study the therapeutic potential of dimethyltryptamine (DMT) for alcohol use disorder, and the ENACT Lab to study the therapeutic effect of psilocybin on OCD, while also working towards greater equity and accessibility in the psychedelic space. We hear about the origins of that community and equity focus in Brad’s psychedelics roots, exploring his experience growing up as a self-proclaimed 'feral child' in the woods of Arkansas, later leading him to his first psychedelic experience where he deeply reconnected to the land he grew up on while in community with friends and fellow ‘Children of the Forest’.

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For anyone in the US looking for SUD or Mental Health treatment: Home - FindTreatment.gov
A link to the DMT study for alcohol use disorder: Study Details | NCT06070649 | The Potential Therapeutic Effects of Psychedelic, N, N-dimethyltryptamine (DMT), on Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD) | ClinicalTrials.gov
Brad’s favourite quote from ‘Helplessness Blues’ by Fleet Foxes: https://youtu.be/7HHgedNNQco?si=x8SPUWQZBX8Fco90 -- “If I know only one thing, it’s that everything that I see of the world outside is so inconceivable, often I barely can speak”
Erowid, a non-profit educational & harm-reduction resource with 60 thousand pages of online information about psychedelics and associated topics: https://www.erowid.org/

Music credit: Music by Mass X Audio from Pixabay

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