5: The Opioid Industry Documents Archive - on archiving the epidemic

For the Medical Record

Join us in our conversation with Caleb Alexander, MD, MS, and Jason Chernesky, PhD, about the Opioid Industry Documents Archive. Both based at Johns Hopkins University, Dr. Alexander is a practicing internist and epidemiologist, and Dr. Chernesky is a historian of medicine and the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) Opioid Industry Research Postdoctoral Fellow. Taking the OIDA's collection of documents as the starting point, we discuss commercial determinants of health, geographies of empathy across American drug epidemics, what litigation documents can tell us about public health, and writing the “second draft” of the story of the opioid epidemic.
SOURCES, PROJECTS, AND SCHOLARS MENTIONED
Industry Documents Library
Truth Tobacco Industry Documents
Polina Ilieva
Rachel Taketa
G. Caleb Alexander, et al. “The Opioid Industry Documents Archive: A Living Digital Repository” (2022)
Cecília Tomori
David Herzberg, White Market Drugs: Big Pharma and the Hidden History of Addiction in America (2020)
Caroline Jean Acker, Creating the American Junkie: Addiction Research in the Classic Era of Narcotic Control (2006)
Tom Lippincott
Beth Macy, Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America (2018)