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How the Legal Opium Market Shaped Global Trade—and Led to an Opioid Crisis

BU historian Benjamin R. Siegel’s Markets of Pain charts opium from a commodity in colonial India to fuel for a drug crisis in modern-day America

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Dream of Being a Fulbright Scholar? Hear from Recent Awardees

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Research News

Brink Bites: A Boston Climate Leader and New Oral Cancer Targets

Reggie Wong Memorial Park was recently featured in an article exploring pollution in Chinatown, written by BU students Ariana Bista (SPH’26) and Maddie Bockus (COM’27). The park is set to be renovated in the future to be safer, greener, and more inviting. Photo by Bista
Public Health

Global Health Storytelling Course Brings Journalism and Public Health Students Together