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Drugs, Addiction and Recovery
Drugs, Addiction and Recovery
January 13, 2021
Intoxicating Zion
A Social History of Hashish in Mandatory Palestine and Israel
Haggai Ram
Hosted by Lucas Richert
When European powers carved political borders across the Middle East following World War I, a curious event in the international drug trade occurred: Palestine became the most important hashish waystation …
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Chinese Studies
January 8, 2021
Recovering Histories
Life and Labor after Heroin in Reform-Era China
Nicholas Bartlett
Hosted by Suvi Rautio
Heroin first reached Gejiu, a Chinese city in southern Yunnan known as Tin Capital, in the 1980s. Widespread use of the drug, which for a short period became “easier to …
History
December 23, 2020
Thai Stick
Surfers, Scammers and the Untold Story of the Marijuana Trade
Peter Maguire and Mike Ritter
Hosted by Michael Vann
In the 1970s surfing and smoking pot went hand in hand. As surfers traveled the world in search of perfect waves in places like Bali, Indonesia, some of them encountered …
Medicine
December 3, 2020
OD
Naloxone and the Politics of Overdose
Nancy D. Campbell
Hosted by Laura Stark
Reducing harm or shrinking the likelihood of accidental death are remarkably contentions projects—in areas from sex education, to pandemic management, to drug use. Nancy Campbell’s important new book, OD: Naloxone …
Drugs, Addiction and Recovery
November 13, 2020
American Trip
Set, Setting, and the Psychedelic Experience in the Twentieth Century
Ido Hartogsohn
Hosted by Emily Dufton
Are psychedelics invaluable therapeutic medicines, or dangerously unpredictable drugs that precipitate psychosis? Tools for spiritual communion or cognitive enhancers that spark innovation? Activators for one’s private muse or part of …
History
November 6, 2020
Cocaine and Surfing
A Sordid History of Surfing's Greatest Love Affair
Chas Smith
Hosted by Michael Vann
Surfers are the ultimate bad boys, living the counter-culture life of decadence and hedonism as they travel the world in search of the perfect wave, partying hard along the way …
Anthropology
October 26, 2020
The Medicalization of Marijuana
Legitimacy, Stigma, and the Patient Experience
Michelle Newhart and William Dolphin
Hosted by Lucas Richert
Medical marijuana laws have spread across the U.S. to all but a handful of states. Yet, eighty years of social stigma and federal prohibition creates dilemmas for patients who participate …
American Studies
October 23, 2020
Love in the Drug War
Selling Sex and Finding Jesus on the Mexico-US Border
Sara Luna
Hosted by Alize Arıcan
Sex, drugs, religion, and love are potent combinations in la zona, a regulated prostitution zone in the city of Reynosa, across the border from Hidalgo, Texas. During the years 200 …
Eastern European Studies
October 6, 2020
Narkomania
Drugs, HIV, and Citizenship in Ukraine
Jennifer J. Carroll
Hosted by Steven Seegel
Against the backdrop of a post-Soviet state set aflame by geopolitical conflict and violent revolution, Narkomania: Drugs, HIV, and Citizenship in Ukraine (Cornell UP, 2019) considers whether substance use disorders …
Literature
October 1, 2020
Seconds and Inches
Carly Israel
Hosted by Eric LeMay
Today I interview Carly Israel about her bold new memoir, Seconds and Inches (Jaded Ibis Press). In the opening sentence of her introduction, Israel writes, “My last name, Israel, means …
Drugs, Addiction and Recovery
September 18, 2020
Chemically Imbalanced
Everyday Suffering, Medication, and Our Troubled Quest for Self-Mastery
Joseph E. Davis
Hosted by Claire Clark
Everyday suffering—those conditions or feelings brought on by trying circumstances that arise in everyone’s lives—is something that humans have grappled with for millennia. But the last decades have seen a …
Drugs, Addiction and Recovery
August 11, 2020
Acid Revival
The Psychedelic Renaissance and the Quest for Medical Legitimacy
Danielle Giffort
Hosted by Lucas Richert
Psychedelic drugs are making a comeback. In the mid-twentieth century, scientists actively studied the potential of drugs like LSD and psilocybin for treating mental health problems. After a decades-long hiatus …
Anthropology
August 3, 2020
RX Appalachia
Stories of Treatment and Survival in Rural Kentucky
Lesly-Marie Buer
Hosted by Claire Clark
Using the narratives of women who use(d) drugs, this account challenges popular understandings of Appalachia spread by such pundits as JD Vance by documenting how women, families, and communities cope …
Chinese Studies
July 2, 2020
Know Your Remedies
Pharmacy and Culture in Early Modern China
He Bian
Hosted by Sarah Bramao-Ramos
He Bian’s new book Know Your Remedies: Pharmacy and Culture in Early Modern China (Princeton University Press, 2020) is a beautiful cultural history of pharmacy in early modern China. This …
Native American Studies
June 10, 2020
In League Against King Alcohol
Native American Women and the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, 1874–1933
Thomas John Lappas
Hosted by David Dry
Many Americans are familiar with the real, but repeatedly stereotyped problem of alcohol abuse in Indian country. Most know about the Prohibition Era and reformers who promoted passage of the …
Literature
June 4, 2020
Attention
A Love Story
Casey Schwartz
Hosted by Lucas Richert
Combining expert storytelling with genuine self-scrutiny, Casey Schwartz details the decade she spend taking Adderall to help her pay attention (or so she thought) and then considers the role of …
Literature
May 14, 2020
On Drugs
Chris Fleming
Hosted by Matthew Thompson
"After I’d finished my rapid-fire history of self-justification he paused and then said, deadpan and rural-Australian-slow: 'Right. Ok. So how is that all working out for you?'" On Drugs (Giramondo …
Philosophy
May 11, 2020
Love Drugs
The Chemical Future of Relationships
Brian Earp and Julian Savulescu
Hosted by Carrie Figdor
Consider a couple with an infant (or two) whose lives have become so harried and difficult the marriage is falling apart. Would it be ethical for them to take oxytocin …
French Studies
May 4, 2020
The Colonial Life of Pharmaceuticals
Medicines and Modernity in Vietnam
Laurence Monnais
Hosted by Lucas Richert
Situated at the crossroads between the history of colonialism, of modern Southeast Asia, and of medical pluralism, this history of medicine and health traces the life of pharmaceuticals in Vietnam …
Latin American Studies
April 15, 2020
Marijuana Boom
The Rise and Fall of Colombia's First Drug Paradise
Lina Britto
Hosted by Lisette Varon Carvajal
In her recently published book Marijuana Boom: The Rise and Fall of Colombia's First Drug Paradise (University of California Press 2020), Lina Britto tells the forgotten story of the first …
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