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About Emily Dufton

Emily Duftonis the author ofGrass Roots: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Marijuana in America(Basic Books, 2017). A drug historian and writer, her second book, on the development of the opioid addiction medication industry, is under contract with the University of Chicago Press.

    NBN Episodes hosted by Emily:

    Drugs, Addiction and Recovery February 7, 2022

    Fentanyl, Inc.

    How Rogue Chemists Are Creating the Deadliest Wave of the Opioid Epidemic

    Ben Westhoff

    Hosted byEmily Dufton
    Ben Westhoff is an award-winning investigative journalist whose best-selling 2019 book Fentanyl, Inc.: How Rogue Chemists Are Creating the Deadliest Wave of the Opioid Epidemic (Grove Press, 2019), was one of the …
    Drugs, Addiction and Recovery February 2, 2022

    Strychnine and Gold

    The Untold History of Addiction Treatment in the United States

    Kenneth Anderson

    Hosted byEmily Dufton
    Kenneth Anderson is the author of Strychnine and Gold, a two-volume history of the “untold story of addiction treatment in the United States.” Anderson knows what he’s talking about when …
    Drugs, Addiction and Recovery October 13, 2021

    Smokescreen

    What the Marijuana Industry Doesn't Want You to Know

    Kevin A. Sabet

    Hosted byEmily Dufton
    Called the “quarterback of the new anti-drug movement,” Kevin Sabet received his Ph.D. in social policy from the University of Oxford and has worked in drug policy for over two …
    Drugs, Addiction and Recovery July 2, 2021

    War Stories from the Drug Survey

    How Culture, Politics, and Statistics Shaped the National Survey on Drug Use and Health

    Joseph Gfroerer

    Hosted byEmily Dufton
    Joseph Gfroerer spent nearly 40 years working as a statistician for the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). Starting in …
    Drugs, Addiction and Recovery April 7, 2021

    Operation White Rabbit

    LSD, the DEA, and the Fate of the Acid King

    Dennis McDougal

    Hosted byEmily Dufton
    Operation White Rabbit: LSD, the DEA, and the Fate of the Acid King (Simon and Schuster, 2020) traces the rise and fall—and rise and fall again—of the psychedelic community through the …
    Drugs, Addiction and Recovery November 13, 2020

    American Trip

    Set, Setting, and the Psychedelic Experience in the Twentieth Century

    我do Hartogsohn

    Hosted byEmily Dufton
    Are psychedelics invaluable therapeutic medicines, or dangerously unpredictable drugs that precipitate psychosis? Tools for spiritual communion or cognitive enhancers that spark innovation? Activators for one’s private muse or part of …
    Drugs, Addiction and Recovery January 7, 2020

    US of AA

    How the Twelve Steps Hijacked the Science of Alcoholism

    Joe Miller

    Hosted byEmily Dufton
    我n the aftermath of Prohibition, America’s top scientists joined forces with members of a new group, called Alcoholics Anonymous, and put their clout behind a campaign to convince the nation …
    Drugs, Addiction and Recovery October 14, 2019

    Ten Drugs

    How Plants, Powders, and Pills Have Shaped the History of Medicine

    Thomas Hager

    Hosted byEmily Dufton
    Behind every landmark drug is a story. It could be a researcher’s genius insight, a catalyzing moment in geopolitical history, a new breakthrough technology, or an unexpected but welcome side …
    Drugs, Addiction and Recovery October 11, 2019

    Strange Trips

    Science, Culture, and the Regulation of Drugs

    Lucas Richert

    Hosted byEmily Dufton
    Strange Trips isn’t only the title of Dr. Lucas Richert’s new book; it’s also a good description of the journey substances take from the black market to the doctor’s black …
    Drugs, Addiction and Recovery September 19, 2019

    Never Enough

    The Neuroscience and Experience of Addiction

    Judith Grisel

    Hosted byEmily Dufton
    Not a lot of authors go from spending their early twenties homeless and addicted to cocaine to becoming one of the world’s leading researchers on the neuroscience of addiction. But …
    Drugs, Addiction and Recovery September 11, 2019

    我n Pain

    A Bioethicist’s Personal Struggle with Opioids

    Travis Rieder

    Hosted byEmily Dufton
    On a spring day in 2015, Dr. Travis Rieder’s life changed. A motorcycle accident, a shattered foot, and a long series of surgeries later, the Johns Hopkins University bioethicist had …
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