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The Points Methadone Marathon
Welcome to the home page for the Points Methadone Marathon! January marks ten years since the launch of the Points blog, and to celebrate...
Trysh Travis
Feb 1, 20222 min read
2021: What a Long Strange Trip It’s Been
January 6, 2021: Smoke ‘Em If You Got ‘Em. Image Source: Ayamann Ismail, “What I Saw Inside the Capitol Riot,” Slate, Jan. 7, 2021....
Trysh Travis
Dec 23, 20212 min read
The Way Back Machine: Jim Baumohl, Advocate for Research on Drugs, Alcohol, Poverty & Homelessness
Editor’s Note: This is the fourth installment in “The Way Back Machine,” a series of interviews with key theorists and practitioners of...
Trysh Travis
Oct 12, 202110 min read
The Way Back Machine—Jim Baumohl, Advocate for Research about Drugs, Alcohol, Poverty, and Homelessn
Editor’s Note: This is the fourth installment in “The Way Back Machine,” a series of interviews with key theorists and practitioners of...
Trysh Travis
Oct 7, 20218 min read
The Way Back Machine—Cora Lee Wetherington, NIDA Advocate for Research about Drugs and Women
Editor’s Note: This is the third installment in “The Way Back Machine,” a series of interviews with key theorists and practitioners of...
Trysh Travis
Jun 29, 20218 min read
The Way Back Machine—Jackie Jenkins-Scott and Community-Based Treatment in Roxbury
Editor’s Note: This is the second installment in “The Way Back Machine,” a series of interviews with key theorists and practitioners of...
Trysh Travis
May 25, 20217 min read
The Way Back Machine—Marsha Rosenbaum: Women on Heroin at 40
Editor’s Note: In conjunction with Women’s History Month, this is the first installment in “The Way Back Machine,” a series of interviews...
Trysh Travis
Mar 17, 20215 min read
Job of Interest to ADHS and AIHP Members! UF Center for Gender, Sexualities, and Women’s Studies Res
Editor’s Note: A job opportunity message today from Points co-founder Trysh Travis. The Center for Gender, Sexualities, and Women’s...
Trysh Travis
Mar 15, 20212 min read
Gender and Critical Drug Studies: Intersectional origins of women's substance treatment
Editor’s Note: Today’s post comes from Trysh Travis, associate professor of Women’s Studies at the University of Florida and co-founder...
Trysh Travis
Sep 4, 20184 min read
Stretching the Boundaries of “History”
Editor’s note: Today sees the final installment of the Points tribute to AA historian Glenn C. Commentator Jackie B. graduated in 2002...
Trysh Travis
Feb 1, 20185 min read
Rich Dubiel Meets Glenn C.
Rich Dubiel Editor’s Note: Today we present the second installation in our roundtable series celebrating the work of AA Historian Glenn...
Trysh Travis
Jan 18, 20185 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
Now Hiring: UF’s Center for Gender, Sexualities, and Women’s Studies Research
A message from Points Managing Editor Emeritus, Trysh Travis: Longtime Points readers will know (and newcomers should find out about)...
Trysh Travis
Oct 5, 20172 min read
In Memoriam: Ernie Kurtz, 1935-2015
All serious historians of alcohol and drugs will be saddened to hear of the passing, last week, of Ernest (“Ernie”) Kurtz, the first and...
Trysh Travis
Jan 25, 20152 min read
Contextualizing the First Annual “We Agnostics and Free Thinkers” AA Convention, Nov 6-8
Editor’s Note: This post is brought to you by the venerable Trysh Travis, former Points managing editor. A friend with a drinking problem...
Trysh Travis
Oct 30, 20144 min read
Call for Proposals: The Drugs, Security and Democracy (DSD) Program
The Drugs, Security and Democracy (DSD) Program provides support for research across a variety of disciplines—anthropology, sociology,...
Trysh Travis
Jan 4, 20133 min read
Call for Participants: BackStory Radio Seeks Questions on Drugs History
Editor’s Note: Okay, Points readers– show that analogue crew over at NPR what you’ve got. Thrilling Sounds of Yesteryear Always wanted to...
Trysh Travis
Dec 27, 20122 min read
David Foster Wallace: Life, Writing, Addiction, and Recovery
Editor’s Note: As of this post, Points will be going on a “holiday hiatus” schedule– a light posting regime that reflects the editorial...
Trysh Travis
Dec 24, 20126 min read
Points Blog Seeks Managing Editor
Points: The Blog of the Alcohol and Drugs History Society, seeks a new managing editor for a two-year term beginning January 2013. This...
Trysh Travis
Nov 13, 20121 min read
Documents: W.O.M.A.N.
Where Women Mash Alcoholism and Narcotics Points readers who have been following my attempts– in diatribes, documents, and interviews— to...
Trysh Travis
Nov 13, 20126 min read
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