The user-based online organization Erowid aims to provide unbiased information about a broad variety of psychoactive substances. Their website provides pharmacological, chemical, biomedical and botanical resources, and hosts more than 20.000 experience reports written by drug users. This large body of user-based knowledge is frequently consulted by drug users who wish to reduce the harmful effects of drug consumption, and whose primary source of information is more and more online.

In order to understand the knowledge practices associated with Erowid, and their entanglements with contemporary drug use, our team of digital anthropologists explored novel methods to analyze Erowid's digital content and connect it with ethnographic expertise. The results that we present on this website provide both a glimpse into practices of reporting drug use, into actual patterns of drug consumption, and into the possibilities of a digitally literate anthropology.