The Opioid Industry Documents Archive: National Symposium 2025 | Day 3: Histories and Stories of the Opioid Crisis

Description

The Opioid Industry Documents Archive (OIDA) is a digital archive co-created by the University of California, San Francisco and Johns Hopkins University containing millions of documents from the opioid industry that shed light on the root causes of the opioid crisis. This unique virtual symposium offers a series of complementary panels that demonstrates OIDA's value in addressing fundamental questions of importance to historians, health policy and legal experts, journalists, archivists, and people with lived experience.

Day 3: Histories and Stories of the Opioid Crisis

This interdisciplinary panel will explore the ways in which OIDA collections serve as an important resource for looking back and looking forward, telling new stories and developing new analyses about the worst drug epidemic in U.S. history.

Speakers:

• David Herzberg, University at Buffalo (SUNY)
• Domenic Esposito, Opioid Spoon Project
• Alexis Pleus, Truth Pharm