The following conversation looks at: the history of drugs in the United States, the dichotomy between the word 'medicine' and 'drug', the ongoing opioid crisis and much more.
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This episode features David Herzberg. Herzberg is a historian of drugs whose research focuses on the legal kind—psychoactive pharmaceuticals. He explores the nature and trajectory of drug commerce, drug use, and drug policy in American racial capitalism. His work has appeared in numerous scholarly and medical journals, in popular media, and in two books: White Market Drugs: Big Pharma and the Hidden History of Addiction in America (University of Chicago Press, 2020) and Happy Pills in America: From Miltown to Prozac (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009). Herzberg is also co-editor of Social History of Alcohol and Drugs: An Interdisciplinary Journal, the official organ of the Alcohol and Drug History Society.

Music: Coma-Media (intro)
                 WinkingFoxMusic (outro)
Recorded: 12/8/2022