Tag Archives: ADHS

Special Announcement: The Points Online Library Project

Posted on April 7, 2012 by

Points‘ mission, in addition to providing readers with a regular opportunity to read new, insightful, and provocative content on the history of drugs and alcohol, is to help further develop  online research and publishing in general. In an age in which WordPress, … Continue reading →

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Another Points Milestone, Another List!

Posted on January 11, 2012 by

You’ll all be pleased to know that Points recently passed the 50,000-view mark–nothing spectacular, of course, but worthy of note in our little corner of the electronic universe.  If you’re new to Points, or just curious, here’s a walk back … Continue reading →

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Alcohol and Drugs History at the AHA Annual Convention I

Posted on January 2, 2012 by

Editor’s Note: If you’ve not looked at our banner recently, you may not know that Points readers is an official organ for the Alcohol and Drugs History Society (ADHS), an affiliated organization of the American Historical Association.  That venerable body … Continue reading →

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200 Posts–Another Points Milestone

Posted on December 18, 2011 by

Not that anyone’s counting, but we’ve just now passed 200 posts for the Points blog. As I noted back in July on the occasion of our 100th post, we’re no match for the production levels of older and more established … Continue reading →

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Call for Papers: Drugs and Drink in Asia

Posted on September 23, 2011 by

Editor’s Note: We’re posting a just-issued call for papers for a conference (“Drugs and Drink in Asia: New Perspectives from History”) to be held at Shanghai University through the David F. Musto Center for Drug Policy Studies.  As one of … Continue reading →

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100 Posts–A Points Milestone

Posted on July 7, 2011 by

Our previous post was number one hundred for the Points blog–a small number, I suppose, in the blogging world, but still something of a milestone for our start-up enterprise!  The tag cloud to the right shows the most commonly used … Continue reading →

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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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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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Reminder: Pub/Street/Meds is Going Fast

Posted on May 10, 2011 by

The window is closing fast for next month’s scintillating Alcohol and Drugs History Society Conference on The Pub, the Street, and the Medicine Cabinet, 24-26 June in Buffalo, New York.  By “window” in this instance we mostly mean “conference hotel … Continue reading →

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