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Drugs, Addiction and Recovery
Interviews with scholars of drugs, addiction and recovery about their new books.
October 29, 2026
Last Day
Based on the groundbreaking podcast of the same name, Last Day: How to Stop Losing Our Loved Ones to the Opioid Crisis (Gallery/Lemonada Books, 2026) …
October 26, 2026
In Praise of Addiction
Elizabeth Roberts has experienced the suffering wrought by addiction: her sister’s destructive alcoholism and dependency on prescription drugs, her mo…
October 16, 2026
The Warm Hug
Drawing on decades of experience in recovery advocacy, Keith Keller's new book, The Warm Hug: Substance Use and How to Fix the Failure of Treatment an…
October 14, 2026
Hit Doctors
As overdose deaths continue to mount and debates rage over harm reduction, drug policy, and homelessness, Hit Doctors: Care, Harm, and the Art of Surv…
September 16, 2026
Sober State
What happens when a democratic state—still in the process of formation—commits to banning a substance, especially one as controversial as alcohol? Sob…
September 9, 2026
Lives Interrupted
An account of the North American fentanyl crisis told through stories and photographs of its victims Lives Interrupted: The Fentanyl Tragedy (Arsenaul…
August 19, 2026
Ganja Matters
Ganja is the popular name in Hindustani, Bengali, and other South Asian languages for intoxicating substances produced from the plant species Ca…
May 31, 2026
A Scourge of Humanity
As the First World War came to a chaotic end, Europeans feared that a wave of crime and anarchy would sweep across their continent. The upheavals …
May 12, 2026
Markets of Pain
Markets of Pain offers a sweeping history of the business of licit opium--following cultivators, merchants, scientists, and policymakers--and shows ho…
April 29, 2026
Sanitariums, Hospitals, and the Belladonna Cure
Author and experienced harm reductionist Kenneth Anderson is back on the New Books Network to discuss the three new titles in his series exploring the…
April 27, 2026
Settler Cannabis
Despite it's centrality to a hippie counterculture which claimed an environmentalist ethos, California's "green rush" of cannabis growing from the mid…
April 20, 2026
Am Yisrael High
Mentioned in the Bible and discussed in numerous traditional texts, cannabis has long been a part of Jewish life. For millennia, Jews have been buying…
April 12, 2026
Coca and the Victorians
The South American coca plant was established in 19th-century Britain as a medical product before it became a globally restricted drug. Drawing on bot…
April 6, 2026
Governing the Excluded
The Colombian village of Briceño might, at first glimpse, look like many communities in the rural Global South. Many of the people living there rely o…
March 26, 2026
Addiction with Gina Turrigiano (EF, JP)
In Recall This Book's second episode (January 2019) John and Elizabeth spoke with their brilliant Brandeis colleague, the MacArthur-winning neuroscien…
March 3, 2026
Liquid Handcuffs
A hard-hitting exposé of how methadone clinics fail people in recovery—and an urgent, unapologetic case for their abolition. Methadone is a life-sav…
February 25, 2026
Live a Little Better
John Beyer is the founder and owner of Men on the Move, one of the East Coast's premier moving and self-storage companies. While although John's journ…
February 24, 2026
What Would You Do Alone in a Cage with Nothing But Cocaine?
Dr. Hanna Pickard has written a revolutionary new paradigm for understanding addiction. Why do people with addiction use drugs self-destructively? W…
February 18, 2026
Addiction, Inc
How the war on drugs created the gold standard treatment for addiction--until America's opioid crisis got privatized for profit, to the detriment of p…
February 9, 2026
Out Of Bounds
Highly promising basketball player Chris Washburn was selected third overall in the 1986 NBA Draft by the Golden State Warriors. But a chance encounte…