New Medical Uses for Old Drugs
AARP Washington State Podcast
English - December 20, 2019 08:31 - 48 minutes - 46.3 MB - ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsPersonal Journals Society & Culture Education aging crime healthyaging agefriendly finance fraud happiness health healthyliving scams Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Medicine is taking a new look at old drugs for treatment of PTSD, depression, anxiety, smoking cessation, end of life care and more. We talk with UW professor Dr. Ingrid Walker about the research being done at major institutions like Johns Hopkins on psychedelic and other drugs and what hope these old, sometimes ancient, drugs have for new medical and therapeutic use.