White opioids: Pharmaceutical race and the war on drugs that wasn’t

White masculinity: Jan Smuts, race and the South African war.

NO SINGLE FIGURE DID MORE to shape South Africa in the first fifty years of the twentieth century, or to establish it in the international imagination, than Jan Christiaan Smuts. Widely recognised in his day as an exceptional scholar, soldier, and scientist, he was also South Africa’s most outstanding white statesman in the twentieth century, the equivalent in terms of international stature the...

The War on Drugs:

This paper was prepared for a Research Symposium on Bad Public Goods, sponsored by Northwestern University’s Searle Center on Law, Regulation, and Economic Growth to be held at the Searle Center Conference Center, Northwestern University School of Law, Chicago campus, September 14-16, 2008. It draws freely from Benson (2008) and a number of other previous writings on drug policy, including Bens...

The empirical war on drugs.

In a special issue of the journal Addictions (1995) academics, researchers and health care professionals debated the status of the empirical in socially orientated drugs research. A number of researchers noted that our knowledge and understanding of drugs and drug users has changed significantly since the 1990s. Post AIDS this shift is identified as a consequence of the development of qualitati...

Escallating the War on Drugs:

The war? Program? Experiment? On drugs.