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Drugs, Addiction and Recovery
Interviews with scholars of drugs, addiction and recovery about their new books.
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…
January 27, 2026
Field Guide to Falling Ill
Jonathan Gleason spent ten years writing the ten essays in his debut collection, Field Guide to Falling Ill (Yale UP, 2026). In them, Gleason braids t…
January 26, 2026
RX Appalachia
Using the narratives of women who use(d) drugs, this account challenges popular understandings of Appalachia spread by such pundits as JD Vance by doc…
January 24, 2026
Beware Euphoria
George Fisher, the Judge John Crown Professor of Law at Stanford Law School, just released his new book Beware Euphoria: The Moral Roots and Racial My…
January 19, 2026
How Do We Treat Opioid Addiction?
Mark Parrino has been involved with the delivery of health care and treatment for opioid use disorder (OUD) since 1974. As the president of the Americ…
January 18, 2026
Habit Forming
Habitual drug use in the United States is at least as old as the nation itself. Elizabeth Kelly Gray's book Habit Forming: Drug Addiction in America, …
January 15, 2026
Worthy of Justice
Over the past three decades, jurisdictions across the United States have developed alternatives to traditional criminal procedures and punishments for…
January 11, 2026
Mixing Medicines
Clare Griffin's book Mixing Medicines: The Global Drug Trade and Early Modern Russia (McGill-Queen's UP, 2022) introduces the reader to the dynamic an…
January 6, 2026
Psychonauts
Mike Jay's Psychonauts: Drugs and the Making of the Modern Mind (Yale UP, 2023) is a provocative and original history of the scientists and writers, a…
December 16, 2025
The Wounded Generation
In its duration, geographical reach, and ferocity, World War II was unprecedented, and the effects on those who fought it and their loved ones at home…