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Kenneth Anderson, Sanitariums, Hospitals, and the Belladonna Cure, April 29, 2026
Helen Redmond, Liquid Handcuffs: Policing and Punishment in Methadone Clinics and the Future of Opioid Addiction Treatment, March 3, 2026
Hanna Pickard, What Would You Do Alone in a Cage with Nothing But Cocaine?: A Philosophy of Addiction, February 24, 2026
Jonathan Gleason, Field Guide to Falling Ill, January 27, 2026
Shoshana Walter, Rehab: An American Scandal, November 8, 2025
Katie Herzog, Drink Your Way Sober: The Science-Based Method to Break Free from Alcohol, September 30, 2025
Melody Glenn, Mother of Methadone: A Doctor’s Quest, a Forgotten History, and a Modern-Day Crisis, August 6, 2025
Ryan Reft, “Heroin and Chocolate City,” May 20, 2024
David Pozen, The Constitution of the War on Drugs, April 28, 2024
George Fisher, Beware Euphoria: The Moral Roots and Racial Myths of America's War on Drugs, February 3, 2024
Sean Howe, Agents of Chaos: Thomas King Forçade, High Times, and the Paranoid End of the 1970s, December 10, 2023
Benjamin Y. Fong, Quick Fixes: Drugs in America from Prohibition to the 21st Century Binge, August 15, 2023
Donovan X. Ramsey, When Crack Was King: A People’s History of a Misunderstood Era, August 12, 2023
Helen Redmond, “Methadone and Covid-19: A Discussion,” July 12, 2023
Mark Parrino, “How Do We Treat Opioid Addiction? A Discussion,” February 13, 2023
Ben Westhoff, Fentanyl, Inc.: How Rogue Chemists are Creating the Deadliest Wave of the Opioid Epidemic, February 7, 2022
Kenneth Anderson, Strychnine and Gold: The Untold History of Addiction Treatment in the United States, February 2, 2022
Kevin A. Sabet, Smokescreen: What the Marijuana Industry Doesn’t Want You to Know, October 13, 2021
Joseph Gfroerer, War Stories from the Drug Survey: How Culture, Politics, and Statistics Shaped the National Survey on Drug Use and Health, July 2, 2021
Dennis McDougal, Operation White Rabbit: LSD, the DEA, and the Fate of the Acid King, April 7, 2021
Ido Hartogsohn, American Trip: Set, Setting and the Psychedelic Experience in the Twentieth Century, November 13, 2020
Joe Miller, US of AA: How the Twelve Steps Hijacked the Science of Alcoholism, January 7, 2020
Thomas Hager, Ten Drugs: How Plants, Powders, and Pills Have Shaped the History of Medicine, October 14, 2019
Lucas Richert, Strange Trips: Science, Culture, and the Regulation of Drugs, October 11, 2019
Judith Grisel, Never Enough: The Neuroscience and Experience of Addition, September 19, 2019
Travis Rieder, In Pain: A Bioethicists’s Personal Struggle With Opioids, September 11, 2019
