Monthly Archives: June 2011

More Dispatches From Buffalo: Addiction Analytics

Posted on June 30, 2011 by

Editors’ Note: We’re grateful to guest blogger Michael Durfee for adding to our ADHS conference reporting.  Below is the first of three very insightful panel reviews he’s prepared.  Michael is currently a doctoral candidate in History at SUNY Buffalo.  He’s … Continue reading →

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A Dispatch from Buffalo: Session H1 – Drugs and the City

Posted on June 29, 2011 by

As readers of this blog know, many of us recently convened in Buffalo for the 6th Biennial Meeting of the Alcohol and Drug History Society. Overall the conference was a great event, and I enjoyed myself tremendously – thanks to organizer … Continue reading →

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The Points Interview: Dan Weimer

Posted on June 29, 2011 by

Sliding into the lucky thirteenth installment of the Points Interview is Dan Weimer, author of Seeing Drugs: Modernization, Counterinsurgency, and U.S. Narcotics Control in the Third World, 1969–1976 (Kent State University Press, 2011).  Dan is on the faculty of Wheeling … Continue reading →

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Keller’s Reticence: A Note on the Perils of Insider Historiography

Posted on June 28, 2011 by

Mark Keller (1907-1995) was the long-time editor and editor emeritus of the Journal of Studies on Alcohol.(1)  His career in alcohol studies stretched all the way back to the 1930s, when he worked for Norman Jolliffe at Bellevue Hospital as … Continue reading →

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Bound by Law? Questioning the “Lobster Trap” of the Controlled Substances Act

Posted on June 23, 2011 by

In her fourth in a six-post series for Points, Siobhan Reynolds reviews the policies and judicial precedents that leave doctors unwilling to prescribe opioids to patients in pain. Reynolds focuses in particular on how federal control of the medical profession … Continue reading →

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Glimpses of Blythewood

Posted on June 21, 2011 by

Mrs. Marty Mann reportedly spent over a year as a patient at Blythewood Sanitarium in Greenwich, Connecticut.  According to Sally Brown and David R. Brown’s biography – although sources differ on this point – Mann was admitted to Blythewood at … Continue reading →

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Your Buffalo Bill of Fare

Posted on June 16, 2011 by

We’ve been noting for a while now the upcoming conference, Pub, Street and Medicine Cabinet, otherwise known as the 6th International Conference on the History of Alcohol and Drugs.  It begins one week from today (the evening of Thursday, June … Continue reading →

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Warring Cultural Icons? Addiction and Mental Illness as Brain Diseases

Posted on June 15, 2011 by

Points readers packing for the big Alcohol and Drugs History Conference next week will want to take a break from stuffing their toiletries into quart-size ziploc bags in order to welcome Guest Blogger Stanton Peele, psychologist, author, and principled opponent … Continue reading →

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The Points Interview: James Nicholls

Posted on June 14, 2011 by

For the twelfth installment of the Points Interview we revisit alcohol (one of the psychoactive “Big Three”, to use David Courtwright’s term), and a marvelous account of England’s long public debate over the place of drinking in the social order. … Continue reading →

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What Drug War Anniversary?

Posted on June 13, 2011 by

A few days ago, New York Times columnist Charles M. Blow commemorated the “40th anniversary of one of the biggest, most expensive, most destructive social policy experiments in American history: The war on drugs.”  The Times column wasn’t exactly delivering … Continue reading →

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