45 claims checked against research: 3 contradicted 2 overstated 4 needing context 29 supported 2 corroborated online 5 unverified
"the genetic risk of addiction is about 50 to 60%. So if you have a biological parent or grandparent with addiction, you are more likely to develop that addiction." (said at 0:00:27)
No published record matching the claim that the genetic risk of developing an addiction is approximately 50% to 60% was located; this does not prove the claim false.
"and that lasted a good 10 to 14 days, completely mapping on with the amount of time it takes typically to get out of acute withdrawal." (said at 0:44:25)
No published record matching the claim that acute withdrawal from an addictive substance or behavior typically lasts 10 to 14 days was located; this does not prove the claim false.
"You know, maybe that's partially true, but even people doing, like doctors and lawyers, they are— HOST: Oh, okay. Yeah. GUEST1: Equal rates of alcoholism among those groups." (said at 0:53:46)
No published record matching the claim that doctors and lawyers experience rates of alcoholism equal to those in blue-collar occupations was located; this does not prove the claim false.
"The target organ that it damages the most is the brain." (said at 1:07:14)
No published record matching the claim that the brain is the organ damaged the most by cannabis was located; this does not prove the claim false.
"It's an experiment in rats where rats were injected with cocaine, the same amount of cocaine every day for seven days. And over the course of those seven days, the rats went from kind of hiding in the shadows of the cage to progressively running a little bit more and a little bit more, and by day seven, they were in a running frenzy... Then there was no more cocaine injected after seven days, and no cocaine or any addictive substance administered to the rats for a year... And then the rats were injected with a single dose of cocaine, and immediately they were plunged back into that running frenzy that you saw on day seven." (said at 1:59:20)
No published record matching the claim that rats sensitized to daily cocaine for seven days retain behavioral sensitization (locomotor frenzy) when challenged after a full year of abstinence was located; this does not prove the claim false.