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Points Video Interview—Yan Liu, Healing With Poisons: Potent Medicines in Medieval China
Editor’s Note: We’re pleased to feature the first Points Video Interview today! SHAD co-Editor Dr. David Herzberg interviews Dr. Yan Liu...
David Herzberg
Oct 5, 20212 min read
The War on Drugs at 50
Editor’s Note: This post by Social History of Alcohol and Drugs Editors Nancy Campbell, David Herzberg, and Lucas Richert kicks off...
Points Editors
Jun 17, 20216 min read


Points Interview: Meet the New Editors of SHAD
In January 2018, Nancy Campbell, David Herzberg, and Lucas Richert assumed responsibility for Social History of Drugs and Alcohol: An...
Points Editors
Dec 6, 20185 min read


SHAD Special Issue: Gender and Critical Drug Studies
Editor’s Note: The newest issue of the Alcohol and Drug History Society’s journal, Social History of Alcohol and Drugs, or SHAD, is a...
Points Editors
Aug 30, 20184 min read
Forthcoming: Special Journal Issues on Gender and Drugs
Editor’s Note: The next editions of the journals Contemporary Drug Problems and The Social History of Alcohol and Drugs will be conjoined...
Points Editors
Nov 16, 20174 min read


Drug War Dissents: Robinson v. California
Editor’s Note: This post is brought to you by Dr. David Herzberg, as associate professor of history at SUNY Buffalo and the author...
David Herzberg
Jun 7, 20166 min read


Forgotten Drugs of Abuse I: T’s and Blues
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. It’s about a new drug, a killer, raging through a major American city filling ERs and morgues...
David Herzberg
Nov 21, 20115 min read


Ask Your Doctor!
So a college student walks into a doctor’s office and they start talking meds. The student had been deeply troubled in the past, had...
David Herzberg
Apr 24, 20115 min read


The Pub, the Street, & the Medicine Cabinet: Be There or Be Square
Points is pleased to announce that the complete program for the What, Precsely, is the Keynote About? 6th Annual International Conference...
Points Editors
Apr 21, 20111 min read
Quaalude: The one that didn’t get away?
I was talking to a 67-year old relative about Quaalude at a recent family event. (Does this sort of thing happen to you all the time...
David Herzberg
Feb 18, 20115 min read
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