Tag Archives: Drugs

Call for Papers: Tonics, Elixirs, and Poisons: Psychoactive Substances in European History and Culture

Posted on May 9, 2012 by

For a Conference 8-9 September 2012, the Antipodean East European Study Group at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, seeks proposals for papers that engage with the following. Psychoactive substances, whether narcotics, stimulants or hallucinogens, affect their users as individuals, … Continue reading →

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The NIAAA-NIDA Merger: Comments from the Field I

Posted on April 20, 2012 by

Editor’s Note: Following up on Ron Roizen’s two-part think-piece on the NIAAA and NIDA merger, we offer the comments of Paul M. Roman, Regents Professor of Sociology at the University of Georgia and Director of their Center for Research on … Continue reading →

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Reflections on the NIAAA/NIDA Merger, Part 2

Posted on April 13, 2012 by

Part 1 here. The current merger plan arose out of a request by the U.S. Congress, accompanying the FY2001 appropriations act, that NIH engage the National Academy of Sciences to conduct a study of “whether the current structure and organization of … Continue reading →

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Reflections on the Scheduled NIAAA/NIDA Merger, Part 1

Posted on April 12, 2012 by

Editor’s Note: Ready or not – and like it or not! — the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) and the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) are scheduled for merger in less than 18 months.  Points contributing … Continue reading →

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March In Review

Posted on March 31, 2012 by

Editor’s Note: As you may have noticed, we here at Points have not been publishing our regular Week in Review lately. Instead, we’re experimenting with a new monthly review column that will allow our readership to get a more holistic sense of … Continue reading →

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Documents: “A Female Junkie Speaks”

Posted on March 26, 2012 by

Editor’s Note:  A few days ago I articulated my interest in uncovering the radical feminist position on drug use and abuse—or in figuring out why radical feminists didn’t have one.  Now in the document-gathering phase, I’ve come across one early … Continue reading →

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Addiction, History and Historians: Ron Roizen’s Response to Courtwright’s Reply

Posted on March 22, 2012 by

Editor’s Note:  Let’s face it–there was an awful lot to chew on in the recent roundtable on David Courtwright’s essay.  A private exchange between Ron Roizen and David Courtwright has led, with David’s encouragement, to Ron organizing his thoughts as … Continue reading →

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On Speed: James Bond and the Myth of the Nazi Superman

Posted on March 15, 2012 by

Ian Fleming describes the preparations for a secret and dangerous operation of his secret agent and assassin James Bond in the 1954 novel Live and Let Die. Among other essentials, ‘There was even a box of Benzedrine tablets to give … Continue reading →

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Feminist Anti-Addiction Discourse: Towards a Research Agenda

Posted on March 13, 2012 by

Devoted Points readers may recall that over the last year contributing editor Michelle McClellan and myself have mused on the odd relationship—or lack thereof—between addiction studies and women’s studies. Given the high correlation between alcohol/drug abuse and a variety of … Continue reading →

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Addiction, History and Historians: David Courtwright replies

Posted on March 13, 2012 by

Editor’s Note:  We’ve been very pleased to post a series of responses to David’s Courtwright’s essay on addiction, history and historians.  Now that Nancy Campbell, Alex Mold, Daniel Bradburd, and Samuel Roberts have all had their say, it seems fitting … Continue reading →

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