China and the Origin of International Opium Commission

Abstract

This year’s International Anti-Drug Shanghai Forum and International Symposium on the History of the Relationship between Society, Government and Science and Psychoactive Substances was named “Changing Minds: Societies, States, the Sciences and Psychoactive Substances in History.” The forum was held at Shanghai University in conjunction with the biennial meeting of the Alcohol and Drugs History Society (ADHS) and took its cue from recent shifts in attitudes toward and understandings of intoxicants and psychoactive substances, exploring inner drivers for change in ideas about such materials from a historical perspective.