The Dr Suzette Glasner Podcast

Dr. Glasner is a clinical psychologist, addiction scientist, award-winning author, and Associate Professor of Psychiatry at UCLA in the David Geffen School of Medicine. The Dr. Suzette Glasner podcast discusses the latest advances in addiction science, trends in alcohol and other substance use, misuse, and addiction across the lifespan, and how to use the science underlying addictive behaviors and the effects of substance use on the brain to shape our health behaviors and every day lives. drglasner.substack.com

The Dr Suzette Glasner Podcast is a health podcast hosted by Dr. Suzette Glasner, with 65 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Dr. Suzette Glasner hosts The Dr Suzette Glasner Podcast, a health show with 65 episodes published.

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  Episode #57

  Ep. 57: Mental Illness Is Now The World's Leading Cause of Disability

  Jun 5, 202616 minS0

  <p>In this episode, Dr. Suzette Glasner examines a striking new finding from one of the largest health studies ever conducted: for the first time in recorded history, mental illness has become the leading cause of disability worldwide.</p><p>Drawing on a major analysis published in The Lancet that tracked mental disorders across 204 countries from 1990 to 2023, Dr. Glasner explains what researchers found, why anxiety and depression are driving much of the increase, and what this shift tells us about the state of global mental health today.</p><p>You can watch or listen to the full episode of The...

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  Episode #56

  The Opioid Defense: What Alex Murdaugh's Case Reveals About Addiction and Accountability

  May 29, 202619 minS0

  <p>The South Carolina Supreme Court just ordered a retrial in the Alex Murdaugh case — and the opioid defense his attorneys raised is about to get a second look.</p><p>To be precise: the defense never claimed opioids made Murdaugh kill his wife and son. They claimed opioids made him lie to police in the aftermath. That’s a narrower argument, but from an addiction science standpoint, it’s actually the more interesting one — and the one that tends to get flattened in media coverage.</p><p>Can a decade-long opioid addiction impair the way someone processes and responds to acute...

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  Hayden Panettiere: Postpartum Addiction

  May 23, 202619 minS0

  <p>Hayden Panettiere’s memoir, This Is Me: A Reckoning, is out now. Inside, she describes a postpartum crisis that millions of mothers experience — but almost no one talks about how it’s connected to addiction. In this episode, addiction scientist and clinical psychologist Dr. Suzette Glasner unpacks what postpartum depression actually is, why it co-occurs with alcohol and substance use so often (and at such high rates), who is most at risk, and what we now know works to prevent and treat both.</p><p>Featuring clips from Hayden Panettiere on Good Morning America and On Purpose with Jay Shetty...

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  Episode #54

  Ep. 54: BuzzBallz: A High-Risk Gen-Z Drinking Trend

  May 16, 202613 minS0

  <p>A 13-year-old in Sheffield asked her mother to add BuzzBallz to a New Year’s Eve shopping list last December. The mother — who runs a sobriety group for women — had never heard of them. Her daughter said, “All my friends are drinking them.”</p><p>Today, BuzzBallz are a $500 million brand. The colorful, 15% ABV cocktails in plastic balls are the second-fastest-growing prepared cocktail brand in America, stocked in convenience stores, gas stations, and supermarkets nationwide. They are sweet, single-serve, cheap (under $5), and increasingly in the hands of underage drinkers.</p><p>In this episode, clinical psychologist and addiction scientist Dr. Suzett...

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  Episode #53

  Ep. 53: Beating Phone Addiction

  May 10, 202617 minS0

  <p>For most of the past decade, the conversation about phone and social media addiction has been stuck at a single question: is this real? In March, a California jury answered it. They found Meta and Google liable for designing addictive social media platforms that harmed a young user — the first time at this scale that the companies were ruled responsible for the addictive design choices baked into their products. </p><p>In this episode, clinical psychologist and addiction scientist Dr. Suzette Glasner takes the question the verdicts have now opened — what do we actually do about it? — and answers it fro...

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