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Hosted by Isaac Campos · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 17 episodes
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This is a podcast about drugs, history, and the endlessly fascinating interaction of the two. Sometimes we'll talk drugs. Sometimes we'll talk history. Sometimes we'll talk about both. This podcast is connected to the Substack newsletter of the same name.https://isaaccampos.substack.com/ isaaccampos.substack.com
Isaac Campos hosts History on Drugs Podcast, a history show with 17 episodes published.
My latest guest is John O’Connor, author of A Short, Strange Trip: An Untold Story of Magic Mushrooms, Madness, and a Search for the Meaning of Life in the Amazon, which was published today (April 14, 2026). This is the
My latest conversation is with Graham Harding, author of Champagne in Britain, 1800-1914: How the British Transformed a French Luxury (Bloomsbury, 2023). Graham and I met last spring in London, where we talked about the
My latest guest is Stephen Snelders of Utrecht University. Stephen and I met up in Amsterdam last March to talk about drugs, history, and the Netherlands. A native of Amsterdam, Stephen watched up close as the various dr
This week’s guest is Matthew Connelly, professor of international and global history at Columbia University. This interview was especially fun for me because it was Matt who, back at the University of Michigan in the 199
This week’s guest is drug-policy-reform legend Ethan Nadelmann. Ethan led the charge against the War on Drugs beginning in the 1980s, first as a professor at Princeton and then as the head of the Lindesmith Center (which
Maia Szalavitz is my latest podcast guest. Maia is the author of Undoing Drugs: How Harm Reduction is Changing the Future of Drugs and Addiction, Unbroken Brain: A Revolutionary New Way of Understanding Addiction, and He
My latest podcast is with Paul Gootenberg, one of the towering figures in drug history. Paul just retired from his longtime position as the SUNY Distinguished Professor of History and Sociology at Stony Brook University,
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My latest guest is historian Erika Dyck. Erika is one of the world’s leading authorities on psychedelics both past and present. She hails from Saskatchewan, Canada, which back in the 1950s was ground zero for new scienti
This week’s guest is Davarian Baldwin, Paul E. Raether Distinguished Professor of American Studies at Trinity University. He’s the author of In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower: How Universities are Plundering Our Cities (B
Today on the podcast I talk to Dale Gieringer, the longtime head of California NORML (National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws). Dale came in last spring to talk about what it was like to be there for some
My guest in Episode #6 is historian Brianna Leavitt-Alcántara. Bri is a specialist in colonial Central America, especially the history of women and religiosity. She’s also my friend and colleague here at the University o
In the fifth installment of the History on Drugs podcast, John O’Connor joins Isaac to discuss his recently published book—The Secret History of Bigfoot: Field Notes on a North American Monster (Sourcebooks, 2024)—along
This week’s guest is my colleague Willard Sunderland. Willard is the Henry R. Winkler Professor of Modern History at the University of Cincinnati and an expert on the history of the Russian Empire. Our conversation cente
In this episode I talk to Nancy Campbell about a life in drug history. From growing up in small-town Pennsylvania, to Seattle and northern California in the 1980s during the height of the War on Drugs, to a historic 1990
In this episode, my colleague Jeff Zalar joins me. This is a wide-ranging conversation that takes us from the post-industrial, working-class Rust Belt, to Panama and the first Gulf War (via the Marines), through graduate
My guest this week is James Bradford of the Berklee College of Music. It’s a great conversation. James is a really interesting guy with a really fascinating story, and he generously shares a lot of it. We talk about his
John O'Connor
Partner, Technology & Data and co-Head of FinTech · William Fry LLP
2 appearances on this show
Ethan Nadelmann
1 appearance on this show
Maia Szalavitz
1 appearance on this show
Erika Dyck
Canadian Research Chair for the History of Medicine · University of Saskatchewan
1 appearance on this show
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History on Drugs Podcast is hosted by Isaac Campos. The show is categorised under history (society) and has published 17 episodes.
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