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Toxic History!Author: Adam Blumenberg MD
Toxic History! is a narrative medicine lecture series where medical experts tell you stories from the history of poison. Human beings have known about poison substances that harm and even kill for thousands of years. Poisons have been seen as mysterious, supernatural, and enigmatic. What are these plants, mixtures, and elements with such powerful properties? It is only in the past century that science has begun to demystify these chemicals and explain how they work. Still, the impact they have on the world from cultish mass suicides to chemical attacks to a single case of homicide can be profound. Toxic History! explores the impact on society, culture, and science behind poisonous events in history. Language: en Genres: Health & Fitness, History, Medicine Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it Trailer: |
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Flooding vs Friction: History Lessons on What Causes Drug Crises, and How to End Them
Episode 56
Sunday, 13 September, 2026
This talk draws lessons about drug policy from the history of what Professor Herzberg calls “white markets,” i.e., legal psychoactive pharmaceuticals. America is famous for its drug wars, but from Bayer’s Heroin to Purdue’s OxyContin, white markets have always been far larger, and while they have caused three major public health catastrophes, they have also been a site of policy creativity that can serve as a model for maximizing the benefit, while reducing the harms, of these desirable but dangerous products.
