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About Lucas Richert
Lucas Richert is an associate professor in the School of Pharmacy at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He studies intoxicating substances and the pharmaceutical industry. He also examines the history of mental health.
NBN Episodes hosted by Lucas:
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? …
January 2, 2024
The African Roots of Marijuana
After arriving from South Asia approximately a thousand years ago, cannabis quickly spread throughout the African continent. European accounts of cann…
December 30, 2023
Psychedelic Prophets
Today I talked with historian Erika Dyck about Aldous Huxley, Humphry Osmond and their correspondence over a ten year period. Psychedelic Prophets: Th…
December 26, 2023
The Age of Addiction
We are living in an age of addiction, from compulsive gaming and binge eating to pornography and opioid abuse. Today I talked with historian David Cou…
February 17, 2021
Heavy Traffic
Much of the world's politics revolve around questions about the development of the international market for drugs; the roles merchants, government off…
January 13, 2021
Intoxicating Zion
When European powers carved political borders across the Middle East following World War I, a curious event in the international drug trade occurred: …
October 26, 2020
The Medicalization of Marijuana
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 …
August 11, 2020
Acid Revival
Psychedelic drugs are making a comeback. In the mid-twentieth century, scientists actively studied the potential of drugs like LSD and psilocybin for …
June 4, 2020
Attention
Combining expert storytelling with genuine self-scrutiny, Casey Schwartz details the decade she spend taking Adderall to help her pay attention (or so…
May 4, 2020
The Colonial Life of Pharmaceuticals
Situated at the crossroads between the history of colonialism, of modern Southeast Asia, and of medical pluralism, this history of medicine and health…
December 26, 2019
The Age of Intoxication
In Benjamin Breen's The Age of Intoxication: Origins of the Global Drug Trade (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019), we are transported back to a t…
December 9, 2019
Drug Politics
Iran has one of the planet's highest rates of addiction. Maziyar Ghiabi's Drug Politics: Managing Disorder in the Islamic Republic of Iran (Cambridge …
August 30, 2019
Grass Roots
Marijuana. Weed. Cannabis. Pot. Whatever term you use, this intoxicant and medical product leads to long discussions. Emily Dufton visits the podcast …
August 13, 2019
Poppies, Politics, and Power
Afghanistan and the United States have a complicated relationship. And poppies have often been at the center of the problem between the two countries.…
August 7, 2019
Mescaline
Psychedelics are not terribly new. And the drug mescaline is certainly not new. Mike Jay's new book, Mescaline: A Global History of the First Psychede…
August 5, 2019
The Trials of Psychedelic Therapy
Are we in the midst of a psychedelic renaissance? If so, what can we learn about the present moment through the history of psychedelic experiments in …
July 12, 2019
Silent Cells
Over the past forty years, U.S. prisons and jails have used various psychotropic drugs. In this interview, Anthony Ryan Hatch discusses the need to th…