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.

DAY 3: History and Science of Medicine

This interdisciplinary panel will discuss the ways in which OIDA collections are an important gateway into telling new stories and developing new analyses about the worst drug epidemic in U.S. history.

• 12:00-12:15 Welcome (Jason M. Chernesky, Johns Hopkins University)  
• 12:15-1:00 Keynote (David Courtwright, University of North Florida)  
• 1:00-1:30 Presentation #1 (Antoine Lentacker, University of California, Riverside)   
• 1:30-2:00 Presentation #2 (Liz Chiarello, Saint Louis University)  
• 2:00-2:25 Facilitated Discussion (Cecília Tomori, Johns Hopkins University)  
• 2:25-2:30 Wrap-up (Jason M. Chernesky)   

OIDA was launched by UCSF and Johns Hopkins in March 2021 as a free public resource. The digital repository includes publicly disclosed documents arising from litigation brought against opioid manufacturers, distributors, pharmacies and consultants by local and state governments and tribal communities. Read more

The Hopkins team includes faculty and staff from the schools of Public Health, Medicine, Nursing, and Engineering, the Welch Medical Library, and the Sheridan Llibraries' Digital Research and Curation Center.