Join members of Troy Foundry Theatre and author Nancy Campbell who will look at how differently overdoses were experienced, reported, and researched across different historical periods. She’ll talk about some interesting cases across the years, late 19th, early 20th, mid-20th, 1960s-1970s, and through the present. Some of these stories are from her most recent  book, OD: Naloxone and the Politics of Overdose Prevention (MIT Press, 2020), which illustrate how overdose affected everyday lives over time, but which have gone unseen until now.

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About the Speakers

Troy Foundry Theatre explores the social issues of today by collaborating with a variety of artists from multiple disciplines to produce and perform new work and reinterpreted classics through the means of new writing, devising and immersive performances.

Nancy D. Campbell is Professor and Department Head of Science and Technology Studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York, where she has taught for over two decades. Her most recent book is OD: Naloxone and the Politics of Overdose Prevention (MIT Press, 2020). She was a FRIAS Senior Fellow and Marie Curie Fellow of the European Union at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS) in 2017-2018. She is one of three editors of the Journal of the Social History of Alcohol and Drugs. Her books include Discovering Addiction: The Science and Politics of Substance Abuse Research (University of Michigan Press, 2007); Gendering Addiction: The Politics of Drug Treatment in a Neurochemical World (co-authored with Elizabeth Ettorre; Palgrave, 2011); The Narcotic Farm: The Rise and Fall of America’s First Prison for Drug Addicts (co-authored with JP Olsen and Luke Walden; Abrams, 2008); and Using Women: Gender, Drug Policy, and Social Justice (Routledge, 2000).