Tag Archives: Treatment

Lessons of the Narcotic Farm, Part Three: The Jenny Barn (continued)

Posted on March 30, 2012 by

Editor’s note: Today, we present the second half of Nancy’s Campbell’s “Lessons of the Narcotic Farm, Part Three: The Jenny Barn.”  You can find the first half of this post here.  Part One and Part Two of the series make … Continue reading →

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Lessons of the Narcotic Farm, Part Three: The Jenny Barn

Posted on March 27, 2012 by

Editor’s Note: Today, Points presents the third part in an ongoing consideration of the Lexington Narcotic Farm’s history and legacy.  Readers may wish to have a look at Part One and Part Two of the series, authored by JP Olsen. … Continue reading →

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Lessons From the Narcotic Farm, Part Two

Posted on March 21, 2012 by

Editor’s Note: Today, Points continues a series of reflections on the Lexington Narcotic Hospital, from Luke Walden, JP Olsen, and Nancy Campbell.  You can read the first post in the series here.  Walden is a documentary filmmaker, Olsen a journalist (and documentarian), … Continue reading →

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Lessons from The Narcotic Farm, Part One

Posted on February 29, 2012 by

Editor’s Note: Today, Points begins a series of reflections on the Lexington Narcotic Hospital, from Luke Walden, JP Olsen, and Nancy Campbell.  Walden is a documentary filmmaker, Olsen a journalist (and documentarian), and Campbell a historian (and Contributing Editor to Points). … Continue reading →

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A Debate for the Ages, Part II: What’s God Got to Do With It? David Wilkerson, Teen Challenge, and Evangelical Anti-Drug Activism

Posted on February 1, 2012 by

Editor’s Note: In this, the second installment of Points’ “A Debate for the Ages” series, Emily Dufton discusses the enormous popular success of Teen Challenge, a program that, by virtue of its embrace by evangelicals and Republican Presidents, has had … Continue reading →

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The “Lee Robins Study” and Its Legacy, Part Two

Posted on January 18, 2012 by

Editor’s Introduction: Earlier this week, Points began a look back at Dr. Lee Robins’ study of heroin use among returning Vietnam veterans, with an extended Introduction and some reflections from Dr. Dessa Bergen-Cico. Today, we’re posting the second and final … Continue reading →

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Points Forward: Kerwin Kaye, “Drug Courts and the Treatment of Addiction: Therapeutic Jurisprudence & Neoliberal Governance”

Posted on December 14, 2011 by

Editor’s Note:  Today marks the first in a new series, “Points Forward,” where your intrepid editors interview recent PhDs in the field of alcohol and drugs history and policy.  Our goal in this is to showcase some of the newest … Continue reading →

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Stigma on Alcoholism: A Modest Proposal

Posted on November 8, 2011 by

It seems to me — and, incidentally, it has seemed to me for a long time — that a key shortcoming in much of the prevailing research and thought surrounding the subject of the stigma on alcoholism stems from a failure … Continue reading →

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From Russia with Rigor

Posted on September 5, 2011 by

Last week the NY Times explored the “circle of hell” that is opiate addiction in Afghanistan, decrying the lack of any functional harm reduction or treatment programs in that perilously-close-to-failing state.  This Sunday’s paper takes us a bit farther east, … Continue reading →

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Freaky Friday: Grand Rounds with Dr. Dave Smith, Founder of the Haight-Ashbury Free Clinic

Posted on September 2, 2011 by

Thanks to the wonders of technology, Points readers interested in the secret history of addiction medicine and the psychedelic ’60s can check out a Grand Rounds talk that Dr. Dave Smith, founder of the Haight-Ashbury Free Clinic, gave at the … Continue reading →

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