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Podcast: Finding Genius Podcast
Episode: Understanding the Social Determinants of Addiction | Aaron Ferguson and Zach Rhoads
Description: “There are benefits to all mind-altering activities or substances…and it can almost be radical to even recognize that in a culture that seems hell-bent on convincing us all that drugs are evil and that drugs are the cause of the problem. What we’ve tried to do with The Social Exchange…is to broaden the definition of addiction beyond just drugs and to broaden it beyond just an over-medicalized mentality around it,” says Aaron Ferguson, co-host of The Social Exchange podcast. On today’s episode, he is joined by his co-host Zach Rhoads to discuss the...