Tag Archives: Cocaine

Victorian Women on Drugs, Part 1: Queen Victoria

Posted on April 4, 2012 by

We here at Points are very excited to present the first installment of guest blogger Kristina Aikens’ four-part series. Kristina received her PhD in English from Tufts University in 2008, producing the thesis “A Pharmacy of Her Own: Victorian Women … Continue reading →

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Friday Reads, Vol. 4

Posted on February 10, 2012 by

Editor’s Introduction: Because we here at Points believe that an understanding of the past is best supplemented with an eye toward the present (and the future), we offer up this weekly selection of news pieces on drug- and alcohol-related issues. In the past … Continue reading →

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Cracking Wise: Finding Humor in America’s Most Notorious Street Drug

Posted on January 14, 2012 by

On March 12, 2002, Comedy Central aired the South Park episode “Jared Has Aides”. Holding true to South Park form, the episode oscillated between incisive hilarity and unwatchable stupidity, the most lasting take-away from the episode being the “22.3 Years … Continue reading →

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“Rock” Raines and The Good Doctor

Posted on January 12, 2012 by

Baseball fans are generally a conservative lot, deeply resistant to the idea that the National Game has long been tainted by the presence of drug pushers and dope fiends. Ken Burns’ wildly successful and stupefyingly long PBS series on the game is … Continue reading →

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Q & A with Paul Gootenberg

Posted on September 8, 2011 by

Editors’ note: Paul Gootenberg’s recent guest post proposing some new directions for research into cocaine’s history generated some very useful comments.  Paul replied to these comments in the original post, and we’ve dug them up and posted them here: Kawaldeep … Continue reading →

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The Points Interview: Howard Markel

Posted on August 12, 2011 by

The Points Interview returns today after a six-week holiday, with the fourteenth installment of the series featuring Howard Markel’s An Anatomy of Addiction: Sigmund Freud, William Halsted, and the Miracle Drug Cocaine.  Just released by Pantheon, An Anatomy of Addiction … Continue reading →

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Beyond Andean Cocaine: Excess Ideas for Further Cocaine Research

Posted on August 8, 2011 by

Editors’ Note: Graduate students, pay attention!  This guest post from SUNY-Stony Brook historian Paul Gootenberg lays out a series of dissertation-worthy research questions in cocaine’s modern history.  Readers of all sorts will observe that many of the unanswered questions have … Continue reading →

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