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Drugs, Addiction and Recovery
Interviews with scholars of drugs, addiction and recovery about their new books.
November 6, 2024
Pharmacopoeias, Drug Regulation, and Empires
The word "pharmacopoeia" has come to have many meanings, although it is commonly understood to be a book describing approved compositions and standard…
November 3, 2024
Carceral Recovery
Carceral Recovery: Prisons, Drug Markets, and the New Pharmaceutical Self (Lexington Books, 2023) explores the interrelation between carceral conditio…
September 20, 2024
The Balanced Brain
There are many routes to mental well-being. In this groundbreaking book, neuroscientist Camilla Nord offers a fascinating tour of the scientific devel…
September 17, 2024
Handcrafted Careers
Handcrafted Careers: Working the Artisan Economy of Craft Beer (U California Press, 2024) unpacks the problems and privileges of pursuing a career of …
September 1, 2024
The Book of Yerba Mate
Brewed from the dried leaves and tender shoots of an evergreen tree native to South America, yerba mate gives its drinkers the jolt of liquid efferves…
September 1, 2024
Wood, Whiskey and Wine
Barrels – we rarely acknowledge their importance, but without them we would be missing out on some of the world’s finest wines and spirits. For over t…
August 15, 2024
Sovereignty and Extortion
Over the past fifteen years in Mexico, more than 450,000 people have been murdered and 110,000 more have been disappeared. In Sovereignty and Extortio…
August 13, 2024
Movies Under the Influence
Movies under the Influence (University of Minnesota Press, 2024) by Dr. Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece charts the entangled histories of moviegoing and m…
July 31, 2024
On Alcohol, Islam, and the Ontic
An interview with Dr. Mustapha Sheikh on his co-authored paper on alcohol, Islam and the ontic. This episode was originally published on May 31, 2019…
July 29, 2024
The Constitution of the War on Drugs
The U.S. government's decades-long "war on drugs" is increasingly recognized as a moral travesty as well as a policy failure. The criminalization of …
July 16, 2024
City of Vice
San Francisco began its American life as a city largely made up of transient men, arriving from afar to participate in the gold rush and various atten…
July 9, 2024
The Way That Leads Among the Lost
Based on over a decade of research, a powerful, moving work of narrative nonfiction that illuminates the little-known world of the anexos of Mexico Ci…
June 26, 2024
The Disabled Will
John T. Maier's The Disabled Will: A Theory of Addiction (Routledge Press, 2024) defends a comprehensive new vision of what addiction is and how peopl…
June 22, 2024
Drugs and the Politics of Consumption in Japan
In early modern Japan, upper status groups coveted pills and powders made of exotic foreign ingredients such as mummy and rhinoceros horn. By the earl…
June 14, 2024
Tripping on Utopia
Today I talked to Benjamin Breen about his book Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic Science (Grand …
May 24, 2024
A Thirst for Wine and War
Adam Zientek, Assistant Professor of History at UC Davis joins Jana Byars to talk about his new book, A Thirst for Wine and War: The Intoxication of F…
May 20, 2024
Heroin and Chocolate City
Ryan Reft is a historian in the Manuscript Division at the Library of Congress, where he oversees collections pertaining to 20th and 21st century dome…
May 18, 2024
Kretek Capitalism
Indonesia is the world's second largest cigarette market: two out of three men smoke, and clove-laced tobacco cigarettes called kretek make up 95 perc…
May 8, 2024
Drink Maps in Victorian Britain
What is a ‘drink map’? It may sound like a pub guide, yet it actually refers to a type of late nineteenth-century British map designed specifically to…
April 29, 2024
States of Intoxication
Is alcohol a universal feature of human society? Why is it problematic in some countries and not others? How did alcohol help build the modern state? …