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/ <br/><br/><a href="https://isaaccampos.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast">isaaccampos.substack.com</a>
History on Drugs Podcast
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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/ <br/><br/><a href="https://isaaccampos.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast">isaaccampos.substack.com</a>
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Recent Episodes
June 17, 2026
Opioids, Methadone, and the History of Medication-Assisted Treatment, with Emily Dufton
<p>My latest guest is Emily Dufton. Emily is an independent scholar and historian who has written a lot about drugs over the years. Her first book, Grass Roots: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Marijuana in America (Basic Books, 2017), told the roller-coaster story of the marijuana-legalization movement since the 1960s. Her new book, Addiction, Inc.: Medication-Assisted Treatment and America’s Forgotten War on Drugs (University of Chicago Press, 2026), is about methadone maintenance and other forms of medication-assisted treatment (MAT) during roughly the same time period. </p><p>As Emily explains, most addiction researchers will tell you that the best way to treat opioid addiction is medication-assisted, yet this approach to treatment continues to carry heavy stigma and is underutilized in the United States. In her book, and in this conversation, Emily explains why. We also talk about being a writer, growing up in Allentown, Pennsylvania, the Nixon Administration, Emily getting hazed by Jerome Jaffe, and more.</p><p>As always the podcast is available through <a target="_blank" href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/history-on-drugs-podcast/id1737673830">Apple Podcasts</a>, <a target="_blank" href="https://open.spotify.com/show/7FRLeEgSuqJ9FTRuh5DaRQ?si=27e574acae1442e4">Spotify</a>, <a target="_blank" href="https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTK8xZMhj6hL8MQXa9POaRxT_SEpemkoL&si=61zM0XiuemQGM48S">YouTube</a>, <a target="_blank" href="https://pca.st/xb3pnqb3">Pocketcasts</a>, and the <a target="_blank" href="https://isaaccampos.substack.com/podcast">Substack app</a>. </p><p><strong>Episode Outline</strong></p><p>0:00-5:08: Introduction. </p><p>5:08-13:15: Academic versus popular publishing, book synopsis and inspiration, medication-assisted treatment (MAT) defined.</p><p>13:15-17:24: Allentown, deindustrialization, and opioids.</p><p>17:24-21:24: Researching MAT, Michael Massing’s The Fix, getting hazed by Jerome Jaffe.</p><p>21:24-29:15: The history of methadone, the Nazis, methadone maintenance in the USA, Vincent Dole and Marie Nyswander.</p><p>29:15-38:40: The US in the 1960s, the French Connection, heroin in Vietnam, Nixon’s declaration of “war on drugs,” the supposed John Erhlichman quote.</p><p>38:40-48:29: Nixon’s concerns about crime, Jeff Donfeld and Bud Krogh, Robert DuPont, Jerome Jaffe, the advantages of methadone, the very loud critics and methadone’s fall from grace in the 1970s.</p><p>48:29-1:10:07: The revival of MAT, the AIDS crisis, COVID-19, the story of Buprenorphine, heroin in the ‘90s, the Drug Abuse Treatment Act of 2000, the launch of Suboxone, Shaun Thaxter, Reckitt Benckiser Pharmaceuticals.</p><p>1:10:07-1:17:57: Why isn’t MAT reaching more people?</p><p>1:17:57-end: Outro.</p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://isaaccampos.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1">isaaccampos.substack.com</a>
April 14, 2026
A Strange Trip into Terence McKenna and Psychedelics, with John O'Connor
<p>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).</p><p>This is the story of Terence McKenna, arguably the single most important figure in popularizing psilocybin mushrooms in the late twentieth century United States. In the early 1970s, McKenna traveled to the Colombian Amazon in search of psychedelics and, in the end, believed he’d discovered the key to saving humanity. Though he is perhaps better known for his “stoned ape theory,” which posits the importance of psychedelics in the evolution of Homo sapiens. In the 1990s he spread his ideas through various publications and, most importantly, on the American lecture circuit, helping to reignite interest in these substances. All of this would eventually morph into today’s psychedelic renaissance.</p><p>In this episode John and I talk about McKenna, Colombia, writing, and our own adventures with these drugs. It’s a great conversation.</p><p>As always the podcast is available through <a target="_blank" href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/history-on-drugs-podcast/id1737673830">Apple Podcasts</a>, <a target="_blank" href="https://open.spotify.com/show/7FRLeEgSuqJ9FTRuh5DaRQ?si=27e574acae1442e4">Spotify</a>, <a target="_blank" href="https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTK8xZMhj6hL8MQXa9POaRxT_SEpemkoL&si=61zM0XiuemQGM48S">YouTube</a>, <a target="_blank" href="https://pca.st/xb3pnqb3">Pocketcasts</a>, and the <a target="_blank" href="https://isaaccampos.substack.com/podcast">Substack app</a>.</p><p>On April 15, I will begin serializing a chapter from the book on the <a target="_blank" href="https://isaaccampos.substack.com/">newsletter</a>. No subscription necessary, but we appreciate you signing up (it’s free).</p><p><strong>Episode Outline</strong></p><p>0:00-4:09: Introduction.</p><p>4:09-20:22: Podcast critiques, the new book, psychonauts, McKenna and his mission, True Hallucinations, Roger Casement, La Chorrera, the “hippie trail,” Richard Evans Schultes, psychedelics in Colombia.</p><p>20:22-51:45: Setting the record straight, personal experiences with psychedelics, fun versus therapy, what LSD meant in the 1980s, “set and setting” and drugs, identifying with the Sixties during the 1980s, more on psychedelics and fun, do psychedelics have to be therapy?</p><p>51:45-1:05:39: Roland Griffiths, the challenges of psychedelic therapy, quackery, indigenous psychedelics versus the global market, psychedelics and violence in the Amazon.</p><p>1:05:39-1:15:48: On becoming a writer, what makes for a successful travel story, writing books versus magazine articles.</p><p>1:15:48-1:24:13: Regrets, last thoughts on the impact of Terence and Dennis McKenna, psychedelics and bullshit.</p><p>1:24:13-End: Outro.</p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://isaaccampos.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1">isaaccampos.substack.com</a>
February 2, 2026
Episode #15: Graham Harding and the History of Champagne in the UK
<p>My latest conversation is with <a target="_blank" href="https://www.stx.ox.ac.uk/people/graham-harding">Graham Harding</a>, author of Champagne in Britain, 1800-1914: How the British Transformed a French Luxury (Bloomsbury, 2023).</p><p>Graham and I met last spring in London, where we talked about the history of champagne during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, along with the fascinating history of “branding,” which came of age during the same period. Graham has not only studied branding with academic rigor, but also lived it during a long career in marketing and advertising prior to becoming an academic. Additionally, he has published A Wine Miscellany: A Jaunt Through the Whimsical World of Wine, which has been <a target="_blank" href="https://www.vinography.com/2008/02/book_review_a_wine_miscellany">described</a> as “a thorough and entertaining collection, sprinkling facts and lore on the history, culture, business and science of savoring and making wine.” This episode is filled with booze, business, and some great stories.</p><p>As always the podcast is available through <a target="_blank" href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/history-on-drugs-podcast/id1737673830">Apple Podcasts</a>, <a target="_blank" href="https://open.spotify.com/show/7FRLeEgSuqJ9FTRuh5DaRQ?si=27e574acae1442e4">Spotify</a>, <a target="_blank" href="https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTK8xZMhj6hL8MQXa9POaRxT_SEpemkoL&si=61zM0XiuemQGM48S">YouTube</a>, <a target="_blank" href="https://pca.st/xb3pnqb3">Pocketcasts</a>, and the <a target="_blank" href="https://isaaccampos.substack.com/podcast">Substack app</a>.</p><p><strong>Episode Outline</strong></p><p>0:00-5:30: Introduction.</p><p>5:30-7:56: The unexpected bonuses of publishing Champagne in Britain.</p><p>7:56-18:21: Early life, Cambridge, working in publishing, advertising, and marketing.</p><p>18:21-28:25: Leaving the business world for academia, getting into wine, A Wine Miscellany, developing his dissertation topic, champagne and the origins of modern marketing, nineteenth-century “influencers,” product placement.</p><p>28:25-41:58: The science of champagne bubbles, the early history of champagne, “Sir Farter,” making champagne drier in Britain and the origins of the drink we enjoy today.</p><p>41:58-49:55: The birth of modern branding, the intersection of taste and social history, why champagne was better for branding than “still” wine.</p><p>49:55-57:16: The history of the term “branding,” why champagne became the drink of the aristocracy.</p><p>57:16-1:05:41: Graham’s family background and its possible relationship to his career path, going back to school in his 60s, working with William White, Christina de Bellaigue, and Peter Mandler.</p><p>1:05:41-1:16:45-: New collaborative projects, craft vs. science in pinot noir.</p><p>1:16:45-end: Outro.</p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://isaaccampos.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1">isaaccampos.substack.com</a>
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