Addiction on the Joe Rogan Experience
4 fact-checked claims across 4 episodes · Aug 2020 to Jan 2025 · updated Jul 16, 2026
Each is a receipt: the exact quote, its timestamp, what published evidence says, and who benefits.
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- Dr. Phil (1)
- Dr. Debra Soh (1)
- Dr. Mark Gordon (1)
- Jordan Peterson (1)
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“if you renew that prescription one time, one time, if you are taking those opioids at the seven-day mark, your chance of being addicted at one year is one in 1…”
Dr. Phil claims that renewing an opioid prescription once at the 7-day mark gives a 1-in-12 chance of addiction at one year, and still using at 30 days gives a 1-in-3 chance.
“well okay to go back to your point about porn addiction number one there's no evidence for pornography addiction in that i need to introduce you to”
Soh asserts there is no evidence that pornography addiction exists.
“And one with one session is in the 80 percent range. With two sessions, it's somewhere around 97 percent, which is just crazy. 93 to 97 percent. It's phenomena…”
Dr. Gordon claims ibogaine treatment has roughly 80 percent success with one session and 93 to 97 percent with two, and that Texas HB 1802 in 2022 was the first state-funded psychedelic research bill.
“5% of them would drink themselves into a coma on first exposure.”
Peterson claims that in a Montreal researcher's study of wild-caught vervet (green) monkeys given access to alcohol, 5% of the monkeys drank themselves into a coma on their very first exposure.