Every Pill I Took
Prompted by Michael Lorenzini’s Every Pill I Took (2022), Peder Clark explores the materiality of Ecstasy pills, thinking about the possible meanings behind- and consequences of- their brash branding.
Ketamine Infusion: Neuroplasticity as a Mythology of the Self
Matthew Hiller reflects on the growing use of ketamine in mental health care and its relationship to the ‘myth’ of neuroplasticity.
Race, Public Health, and Drug Control in the American Philippines
Eva Ward discusses the contradictions and assumptions behind America’s ‘war on drugs’ in the Philippines.
‘Addicted. Pregnant. Poor’ reviewed by Dr Kwanwook Kim
Addicted. Pregnant. Poor by Kelly Ray Knight (Duke University Press, 2015). This deeply engaging and long standing ethnography conducted from 2007 to 2011 fully discloses the sufferings of women living in daily rent hotels