Absolutely agree. I think what bothers me with some of their recent content is that it is still produced with the same aspiration to quality, but it's simply wasted on the subject matter.
What do people think of the Ibogaine episode (S01E07)? I'm sort of familiar with the politics and some of the pharmacology, but have never been an addict, particularly to heroin, and aside from MAPS, don't know much about the ibogaine anti-addiction groups.
I found that to be kind of a mixed bag. I definitely think that to get rid of addiction, you cannot simply take addiction away from a person because you leave a hole that they filled with drugs precisely because they are unable to fill it with anything else (if only at that time in their lifes).
Whether it is a good idea to fill it with some curious mix of African rituals and some even more curious psychedelics is questionable, but I think it's reasonably straightforward why it works. Snap them out of it, bring them into an empathetic community. A lot of approaches go like that. It's probably mostly placebo, but hey, placebo works 20% of the time.
