Author Peter Andreas will be speaking on his new book, “Killer High: A History of War in Six Drugs” as part of the brand new WaterFire Symposium, a series of public dialogues at the WaterFire Arts Center.

“Ingeniously plotted, briskly written, and strikingly illustrated, Killer High delivers a kaleidoscopic trip through the history of drugs and war. Peter Andreas looks at the drug-war relationship from every angle: how combatants and noncombatants used drugs; how wars were fought through, for, or against drugs; and how wars shaped the fates of drugs, often speeding their rise as global commodities.”
—David Courtwright, author of Forces of Habit and The Age of Addiction

Peter Andreas is the John Hay Professor of International Studies. He joined the Institute in the fall of 2001, and holds a joint appointment with the Department of Political Science. Previously, Andreas was an academy scholar at Harvard University, a research fellow at the Brookings Institution, and an SSRC-MacArthur Foundation Fellow on International Peace and Security.

About WaterFire Symposium
Join us at the WaterFire Arts Center for a series of public dialogues curated by Symposium Books and WaterFire. This series of talks, panels, and readings will cover the most pressing topics facing our society today, from environmentalism and urbanism to science and visual arts.

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