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After Opium: Drug Addiction and Recovery in 20TH Century Vietnamese History [<em>after Opium</em> Considers the Social Exclusion of Addicts and State Projects for Their Recovery From the Time of the Colonial Opium Monopoly Through the Early Years of the Hiv/aids Epidemic. the Project Has Two Major Motivating Questions: When Did the Figure of the ?addict? First Appear in Vietnam and How Has It Been Deployed at Different Moments in Vietnam?s Political Past? and How Were These Shifts Experienced by Those Labeled as ?addicts? and Their Families? It Argues That the Historical Instability of Addiction as a Concept?its Layered and Varied Meanings, and Especially Its Framing as a Pathology That Requires Rehabilitation?emerged From Both Local Debates About the Dangers of Drug Use and Transnational Exchanges of Expertise and Policy Which Tied the Fate of Vietnamese Drug Addicts to Those Elsewhere.]