High Society events
'High Society' is supported by a diverse series of events.
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A two day symposium, 11-12 February 2011. Intoxication in society and culture, the temperance movement and the origins of drug control.
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Thursday 3 February 2011. Is it realistic to expect drug policy to reflect scientific evidence?
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20 January 2011, 19.00-20.30. Mind-altering drugs are a universal habit, but an acquired taste: one culture's religious sacrament is another's public health problem. How did the contemporary category of 'drug' come into being, and how do attitudes differ across other times and places?
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2 December 2010, 19.00-20.30. Drugs that alter consciousness can only be fully described by human subjects - often reporting wildly different experiences. Can science make sense of these subjective experiences, or are they better conveyed by artists or writers?
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1 December 2010, 13.00-13.45. What's it like being a scientist with a licence to possess illegal drugs? Celia Morgan, a psychologist at UCL, works on cannabis and ketamine, conducting experiments on people who are high on their own supply to determine the effect of drugs on their cognitive function.
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December 2010 and January 2011. Be transported to the coffee houses of 18th-century Leipzig in this immersive evening of music and mind-altering substances.