Review of 'High Society' at the Wellcome Collection

According to their press release the Wellcome Collection’s latest exhibition High Society "explores the role of mind-altering drugs in history and culture" and challenges "the perception that drugs are a disease of modern life". Indeed, it was my impression that the exhibition did more than just challenge false historical assumption, it challenged the very notion of applying the word disease to drug use as some sort of catch-all understanding; one that fails time and again to notice the subtle, but often extraordinary, nuances of the human-drug relationship.