New Books in Drugs, Addiction and Recovery

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Opium

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Public Health

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Drug Policy

Opioid Crisis

Islam

Alcoholism

Neuroscience

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Heroin

Colonialism

Craft Beer

Mexican Drug Trade

Drug Addiction

Alcohol Consumption

PTSD

This podcast is a channel on the New Books Network. The New Books Network is an academic audio library dedicated to public education. In each episode you will hear scholars discuss their recently published research with another expert in their field. Discover our 150+ channels and browse our 28,000+ episodes on our website: ⁠newbooksnetwork.com⁠ Subscribe to our free weekly Substack newsletter to ... more

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David Petruccelli, "A Scourge of Humanity: The Origins of Interpol and the End of Empire in Central and Eastern Europe" (Oxford UP, 2025)

As the First World War came to a chaotic end, Europeans feared that a wave of crime and anarchy would sweep across their continent. The upheavals of the war and of the subsequent violent breakup of the Habsburg, German, and Ottoman empires magnified ... more

31 May 2026 • 1 hr 3 min

Benjamin Robert Siegel, "Markets of Pain: Opium, Capitalism, and the Global History of Painkillers" (Oxford UP, 2026)

Markets of Pain offers a sweeping history of the business of licit opium--following cultivators, merchants, scientists, and policymakers--and shows how this potent crop reshaped global trade, medicine, and geopolitics.

For centuries, opium has been... more

12 May 2026 • 37 min

Kenneth Anderson, "Sanitariums, Hospitals, and the Belladonna Cure: Volume Three of the Untold History of Addiction Treatment in the United States" (The HAMS Harm Reduction Network, Inc., 2022)

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 history of America's addiction treatment industry. We discussed the first two books of his series, ... more

29 Apr 2026 • 1 hr 8 min

Kaitlin P. Reed, "Settler Cannabis: From Gold Rush to Green Rush in Indigenous Northern California" (U Washington Press, 2023)

Despite it's centrality to a hippie counterculture which claimed an environmentalist ethos, California's "green rush" of cannabis growing from the mid-twentieth century onwards has been anything but. In Settler Cannabis: From Gold Rush to Green Rush ... more

27 Apr 2026 • 1 hr 23 min

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Benjamin Siegel

Author, Associate Professor of History at Boston University

Boston University

Episode: Benjamin Robert Siegel, "Markets of Pain: Opium, Capitalism, and the Global History of Painkillers" (Oxford UP, 2026)

Kenneth Anderson

Author and researcher; founder and CEO of the HAMS Harm Reduction Network

HAMS Harm Reduction Network

Episode: Kenneth Anderson, "Sanitariums, Hospitals, and the Belladonna Cure: Volume Three of the Untold History of Addiction Treatment in the United States" (The HAMS Harm Reduction Network, Inc., 2022)

Kaitlin Reed

Enrolled member of the Yurok tribe; Associate Professor of Native American Studies at Cal Poly Humboldt; Co-director of the Roe Dallagher Food Sovereignty Lab and Traditional Ecological Knowledge Institute

Cal Poly Humboldt

Episode: Kaitlin P. Reed, "Settler Cannabis: From Gold Rush to Green Rush in Indigenous Northern California" (U Washington Press, 2023)

Ed Rosenthal

cannabis horticulture expert, legalization advocate

Author and educator

Episode: Am Yisrael High: The Story of Jews and Cannabis

Madison Margolin

journalist covering psychedelics, cannabis, spirituality, and Jewish life; co-founder of Double Blind Magazine

Double Blind Magazine

Episode: Am Yisrael High: The Story of Jews and Cannabis

Adriana Kertzer

Founding partner at Plant Medicine Law Group; founder of Jew Who Tokes

Plant Medicine Law Group

Episode: Am Yisrael High: The Story of Jews and Cannabis

Rabbi Dr. Yosef Glassman

Board-certified physician, expert in Jewish cannabinoid therapeutics

IDF Medical Corps; Johns Hopkins/ Tufts/ Harvard affiliations

Episode: Am Yisrael High: The Story of Jews and Cannabis

Kim Embrey

Historian of Victorian Britain, author of Coca and the Victorians

Transcript Publishing (book author)

Episode: Kim Embrey, "Coca and the Victorians: From Botanical Curiosity to Regulated Drug, 1835–1912" (Transcript Publishing, 2025)

Alex Diamond

Sociologist and author of Governing the Excluded, Rural Livelihoods Beyond Coca in Colombia's Peace Laboratory

University of Chicago Press (publisher)

Episode: Alex Diamond, "Governing the Excluded: Rural Livelihoods Beyond Coca in Colombia's Peace Laboratory" (U Chicago Press, 2026)

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Emily Dufton

Host of New Books Network, specializes in drugs, addiction, and recovery content.

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Kenneth Anderson, "Sanitariums, Hospitals, and the Belladonna Cure: Volume Three of the Untold History of Addiction Treatment in the United States" (The HAMS Harm Reduction Network, Inc., 2022)

Q: Can you explain the significance of the Towns Belladonna Cure and why it remains a notable case study in the history of addiction treatment?

Town's Belladonna Cure illustrates how marketing charisma and regulatory loopholes can propel a treatment into centers of power and public attention, even as clinical efficacy remained questionable and safety concerns persisted; it demonstrates the complex interplay of science, marketing, and patient outcomes in early 20th-century medicine.

Kenneth Anderson, "Sanitariums, Hospitals, and the Belladonna Cure: Volume Three of the Untold History of Addiction Treatment in the United States" (The HAMS Harm Reduction Network, Inc., 2022)

Q: What role did Yale's early addiction research play in shaping national treatment approaches, and how did it diverge from other contemporary models like Hazelden?

Yale introduced a rigorous, university-backed research framework that influenced national practice, while Hazelden fostered more religion- and community-based models; this split underscored a broader transition from purely reformist or spiritual approaches to more evidence-driven, institutional settings.

Kenneth Anderson, "Sanitariums, Hospitals, and the Belladonna Cure: Volume Three of the Untold History of Addiction Treatment in the United States" (The HAMS Harm Reduction Network, Inc., 2022)

Q: Why did you choose to structure Volume 3 as a continuation focusing on for-profit and hospital-based treatment, and what does this reveal about the broader industry at the time?

The shift to for-profit and hospital-based models shows how capital and insurance dynamics drove the expansion of treatment infrastructure, often outpacing solid scientific validation, which helps explain why some approaches persisted despite limited evidence of efficacy.

Alex Diamond, "Governing the Excluded: Rural Livelihoods Beyond Coca in Colombia's Peace Laboratory" (U Chicago Press, 2026)

Q: What was the most surprising finding about the relationship between coca substitution and local authority?

The substitution program didn't simply reduce coca; it created new channels of state presence and everyday governance, tying villagers to the state through road-building, services, and employment while also reshaping who wields power locally.

Emily Dufton, "Addiction, Inc: Medication-assisted Treatment and America's Forgotten War on Drugs" (U Chicago Press, 2026)

Q: Can you talk about the effect of the Reagan administration's abandonment of methadone treatment?

Dufton explains that Reagan's administration fundamentally undercut methadone treatment programs by withdrawing federal funding, which shifted from treatment to a focus on research.

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