The History of Drugs in Society explores the history of different substances and how we’ve lived alongside and interacted with them.This season, we’re going to look at opium in one of three ways: opium as a medicine, opium as a commodity that is traded, and opium as a drug that is consumed and people become addicted to. Each episode will have one of these three as the primary focus. We will start with the first signs of the opium poppy through the current opioid crisis in America and the major issues surrounding opioids globally.
Episodes
Tuesday Jun 09, 2020
Tuesday Jun 09, 2020
This episode, the second of two exploring opium as a commodity, focuses on the British role in the opium trade in the 1700-1800s and an overview of the market as we head into the 1900s. I focus on the expansion of the British in India, the Opium Wars, the opium trade overall, and how this sets the stage for prohibition.
Suggested podcasts:
- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00776k9
- https://jorschneider.com/2018/11/02/when-trade-wars-turned-bloody-the-opium-war-with-stephen-platt/
- https://soundcloud.com/teacupmedia/chp-006-the-opium-war
- Throughline Hong Kong episode
- More on Chinese perspective?
- Book: Imperial Twilight by Stephen Platt for context leading up to and through the first Opium War
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