Welcome to the Drug Injury (D.I.S.) Portal Site. This site is a web-based introduction to some of the drug injury materials and catalog of materials housed at the National Institute for Drug Injury Research (NIDR), and is the result of a project funded by the “Practical Study on Construction and Utilization of Infrastructure for Data Archives of Drug Injury Materials (22KC2009)” (funded by the Health and Labor Administration Promotion and Research Project) research group.
What is drug abuse? The novice or newcomer who visits this site in search of an answer to this question can learn about the history of postwar Japan’s victims’ movements, including radiation exposure and pollution problems, the changes in pharmaceutical administration, and the way society continues to whip victims. The damage caused by drug pollution differs depending on the drug that caused the problem, the timing of the outbreak, and the symptoms, but it is not limited to health damage.
This website aims to portray a “life-size image” of the victims of drug-related accidents, which cannot be captured by numerical figures such as the number of victims or the amount of compensation, by using artifacts, court records, and video materials left behind by victims and their bereaved families. This is the “living proof” that the drug-attack victims risked their lives to convey to those of us living today. In order to preserve and convey this intention, we will continue to expand the number of materials that can be made available to the public, and we will ask the world about the problematic nature of drug-related injuries.
D.I.S.” is an abbreviation for Drug-Induced Suffering, which has been used by some as a translation for drug-induced injury. In fact, there is no fixed English translation for drug-induced injury. Therefore, in order to communicate about drug-induced injury to the world, we must not only show D.I.S. as a translation of drug-induced injury, but also unravel the historical background and the experiences of the victims, as shown on this website. We hope that the chronology and bibliography on this site will open the door to the D.I.S. issue and allow you to directly experience the profundity of the problem. We would be more than happy if you use this site as a first step in this process.
March 2025 Principal investigator: Masatake Hongo (Momoyama Gakuin University)
Research Team Members
- Masatake Hongo (Momoyama Gakuin University)
- Tetsuhiko Sato (Kwansei Gakuin University)
- Chika Yazaki (Kanto Gakuin University)
- Chiai KAGEYAMA (Research Associate) (International Institute for Economics and Labor Studies)
- Nobuyuki Horiuchi (Research Associate) (National Institute of Japanese Literature)
activity log
research report
Published in Practical Research on the Construction and Utilization of the Infrastructure of Data Archives for Drug Injury Materials.