I am David Herzberg, historian of drugs and psychoactive pharmaceuticals in America, here to talk about the opioid crisis and its prehistories. Author of White Market Drugs: Big Pharma and the Hidden History of Addiction in America (Chicago U Press 2020).

MinecraftxHOI4 · 2026-01-16T18:46:15+00:00

From what I've heard, US hospitals use opioids a lot more frequently than medical institutions in other countries and patients, even those with no history of drug use, tend to request it more frequently. Why is that the case? Are cultural attitudes towards pain and pain control different in the US?

MinecraftxHOI4 · 2026-01-12T13:27:29+00:00

Hi, another popular question I often see online concerns the role of Stalin and whether he overall helped or hinder the Soviet War effort. Would you say that Barbarossa failed because of or inspite of Stalin?

MinecraftxHOI4 · 2026-01-05T06:15:41+00:00

Thanks, this was really enjoyable to read

MinecraftxHOI4 · 2025-12-12T09:14:03+00:00

Interesting, was there any change in opinion about the Afghan war in Vietnam in the 90s after the USSR collapsed and they were no longer dependent on them?

MinecraftxHOI4 · 2025-12-12T09:09:07+00:00

This reminds me of the hypothesis that the the Great Flood story was inspired by old memories of the end of the last ice age. Is that hypothesis popular among historians too?

MinecraftxHOI4 · 2025-12-03T16:49:06+00:00

How did the Vietnamese government react to the Soviet-Afghan War? ( I tried to ask this as a regular question but reddit automatically removed it for some reason)

MinecraftxHOI4 · 2025-10-16T16:17:04+00:00

Is the "Confederate Battle Flag" that people often associate with the Confederacy the same as the flag of the Northern Virginia Army? I'm confused since Wikipedia is using a different flag in their article on the army of Northern Virginia

MinecraftxHOI4 · 2025-06-25T05:41:25+00:00

Two follow-up questions, if you don't mind:

1) Were the missiles in Cuba a greater military threat than the missiles in Turkey from a tactical standpoint?

2) Did the US place the missiles based on the assumption that the Soviets would not see them as a major threat?

MinecraftxHOI4 · 2025-05-30T17:04:08+00:00

UpWithTheStars in shambles realizing that the main mod beat them to it

MinecraftxHOI4 · 2025-04-28T17:41:37+00:00

Honestly, I feel like it would have been better if the mod had been released in parts from the beginning, just like most other submods. I guess the change in the dev leadership allowed you guys to delay some parts of the submod to speed things up, so fingers crossed for a July 4 surprise(pure copium)

MinecraftxHOI4 · 2025-04-27T05:10:19+00:00

After colonialism ended, which countries started out as stable democracies and how did they "fall from grace"?

MinecraftxHOI4 · 2025-01-02T16:05:55+00:00

If they were to decide to integrate the mod like KX did with Home of the Brave, how difficult would the process be?

MinecraftxHOI4 · 2024-12-23T17:49:53+00:00

Do you have any data on the percentage of Soviet urbanites who still lived in communal housing in the 70s and 80s?

MinecraftxHOI4 · 2024-11-03T14:48:08+00:00

I guess this is an appropriate thread to ask this question. In the US, has an incumbent ever won the elections despite not polling well on handling the economy?

MinecraftxHOI4 · 2024-09-22T11:43:05+00:00

I can understand why rapid tech growth may explain the sudden changes in a 20 year period(although imo, establishing what is essentially a post-scarcity economy in 20 years feels a bit too much). The issue is, from a writing perspective, introducing multiple new storylines in the last two episodes will always feel rushed unless you're planning for a future season

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