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Women, Intoxicants, and Informal Laws: Transnational Perspectives (19th-21st centuries)
Notetakers Kayla Greenstein, University of Sydney Philipp Rühr Presenters Chair: Catherine Carstairs , University of Guelph Dorota...
Bob Beach
Oct 7, 20243 min read


Women and Psychoactive Drugs
Notetakers Kayla Greenstein, University of Sydney Philipp Rühr Presenters Chair: Catherine Carstairs , University of Guelph Erika Dyck ,...
Bob Beach
Oct 2, 20243 min read


Criminalization, De-Criminalization, and Legalization: History and Contemporary Politics
Chaired by Lucas Richert from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The panel included presentations by Benjamin Y. Fong from Arizona...
Bob Beach
Sep 30, 20244 min read


Online Symposium: The Opioid Industry Documents Archive: A National Symposium
The Opioid Industry Documents Archive (OIDA) is hosting a national webinar symposium, Monday, May 13 through Thursday, May 16, noon-2:30...
Clayton Wells
May 6, 20241 min read


New Exhibit: African American Pharmacy in New Orleans
A new exhibit at the New Orleans Pharmacy Museum is opening this September 2023. The exhibit focus on African American pharmacists.
Points Editors
Aug 22, 20231 min read


The 2023 Harm Reduction Nightlife Summit
Juliet Flam Ross reports on The Harm Reduction Nightlife Summit hosted in London in May 2023.
Juliet Flam Ross
Aug 17, 20236 min read


Drug Use on One 'Night on Earth' in 1929
Ritesh Kumar Jaiswal, Halea Ruffiner & Judith Vitale creatively explore the fate of people who use drugs one night in 1929.
Points Editors
Aug 10, 20236 min read


CFP: ADHS Conference, June 2024
The ADHS invites abstracts for papers for its 8th biennial meeting, to be held in Buffalo, NY / Niagara Falls, CN, June 27-30, 2024.
Points Editors
Jul 24, 20232 min read


Roundtable: Confronting the Drug War: Drug User-Oriented Harm Reduction and Drug Policy
Yale’s SU x COVID Data Collaborative’s Policy Working Group is hosting activists who use drugs and harm reduction researchers to discuss...
Points Editors
May 9, 20231 min read


Women and Alcohol conference workshop: Drinking studies. Crossing Boundaries 2023.
The ‘Women and Alcohol’ research cluster of the Drinking Studies Network are excited to announce a conference workshop on women and...
Points Editors
Mar 2, 20232 min read
At War With King Alcohol: Debating Drinking and Masculinity in the Civil War
On Tuesday February 21, 2023, 7:00 – 8:15 p.m. U.S. ET, the Virginia Center for Civil War Studies at Virginia Tech is hosting a free...
Points Editors
Feb 14, 20231 min read


Healing Disruption: Symposium
Dr Maziyar Ghiabi has announced the proceedings of a two-day symposium titled ‘Healing Disruption: Histories of Intoxication and...
Points Editors
Jan 17, 20231 min read


ICDPS fall seminar series unpacks complex global health histories
We are still living the COVID-19 pandemic, and scholarship regarding public health, drug history, and global health governance has become...
Arnab Chakraborty
Jan 3, 20235 min read


Call for Papers: ‘Reckoning and Re-Imagining Health Histories’
The Canadian Society for the History of Medicine and the Canadian Association for the History of Nursing are seeking papers and panel...
Points Editors
Dec 13, 20221 min read


Plants as Psychoactives and Medicines: Touring Allen Centennial Gardens
On a sunny, fall day in Wisconsin, the “Psychedelic Pasts, Presents, and Futures” Borghesi-Mellon working group teamed up with the Allen...
Gabriel Lake Carter
Nov 24, 20222 min read


Transdisciplinary Approaches for Psychedelic Experiences Lecture
The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s School of Pharmacy is hosting a reading group and lecture featuring Dr. Kwasi Adusei on October 26,...
Points Editors
Oct 25, 20222 min read


Call For Papers: “Training, learning and education”
The British Society for the History of Pharmacy have announced their 2023 annual conference in Oxford, UK, themed ‘Training, learning and...
Points Editors
Oct 20, 20221 min read


Psychedelic Pasts, Presents & Futures Roundtable
The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s School of Pharmacy is hosting a Roundtable on September 27, 2022 as part of their “Psychedelic...
Points Editors
Sep 23, 20221 min read


Comments on The State of Drug and Alcohol History Pedagogy and Research
Editor’s Note: In this post, David Korostyshevsky comments on The State of Drug and Alcohol History Pedagogy and Research Roundtable...
David Korostyshevsky
Aug 18, 20227 min read


Points Interview: Paul Gootenberg and Cecilia Autrique
At the end of the first day of the biennial Conference of the Alcohol and Drugs History Society (ADHS) Mexico City 2022 we interviewed...
Points Editors
Aug 16, 20224 min read
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