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The State of Drug Checking in the United Kingdom
UK Drug Checking Options Information Sheet (28/04/2023) The above table shows the types of tests available for checking drugs in the UK...
Juliet Flam Ross
May 18, 20239 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
Failure with Benefits: The War on Drugs Rolls on
In June 1970, under the influence of a flawless midwestern day and the imminent launch of life after college, my friend Mary and I agreed...
Steve Beitler
Mar 28, 20237 min read
A Chronology of Drugs
Editor’s Note: During her career as a Professor of History, specialising in 20th century Latin America and the war on drugs, Myrna...
Myrna Santiago
Apr 5, 20223 min read
“Blah Blah Blah”: The Fallacy of United Nations Drug Summits
Editor’s Note: Today’s post comes from contributing editor Dr. Stefano Tijerina, a lecturer in management and the Chris Kobrack Research...
Stefano Tijerina
Nov 18, 20215 min read
What We Left Behind in Afghanistan
Editor’s Note: Today’s post comes from contributing editor Dr. Stefano Tijerina, a lecturer in management and the Chris Kobrack Research...
Stefano Tijerina
Sep 16, 20213 min read
Event Alert—A War on Research: Drug Policy and 50 Year of Lost Knowledge
Editor’s Note: This event alert is part of Points’s commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of the War on Drugs. Mark you calendars for...
Points Editors
Jun 20, 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
Addiction Lives Interviews: Betsy Thom and Harry Shapiro
Editor’s Note: With this post, Points is pleased to inaugurate a new regular feature highlighting interviews from the “Addiction Lives”...
Points Editors
May 13, 20213 min read
Coming Soon: Cannabis Clinical Outcomes Research Conference (CCORC) 2021
April 8th – 9th, 2021 | Virtual Learn, share, and advance medical marijuana research Hosted by the Consortium for Medical Marijuana...
Points Editors
Mar 3, 20212 min read
Hidden Addicts: The Elderly and the Opioid Epidemic
Editor’s Note: Today’s post comes from contributing editor Michael Brownrigg. Michael recently received his PhD in US history from...
Michael Brownrigg
Mar 1, 20217 min read
Review: “Drug Use For Grown-Ups: Chasing Liberty in the Land of Fear”
Editor’s Note: Today’s post comes from contributing editor Brooks Hudson, a PhD student in history at Southern Illinois University. Dr....
Brooks Hudson
Jan 14, 20218 min read
Mothers on the Frontlines: The Addict’s Mom
Editor’s Note: Today’s post comes from contributing editor Michael Brownrigg. Michael recently received his PhD in US history from...
Michael Brownrigg
Jan 5, 20216 min read
Biden’s Opioid Plan: Punishment Disguised as Treatment
Editor’s Note: Today’s post comes from contributing editor Brooks Hudson, a PhD student in history at Southern Illinois University. Last...
Brooks Hudson
Dec 17, 20208 min read
Drug Reform in a Biden Administration?
Editor’s Note: Today’s post comes from contributing editor Brooks Hudson, a PhD student in history at Southern Illinois University. In...
Brooks Hudson
Oct 22, 20206 min read
Joe Biden and Drug Control: A More Complete Picture (Part 2—the 1980s)
Editor’s Note: Today’s post comes from contributing editor Sarah Brady Siff, a visiting assistant professor at the Moritz College of Law...
Sarah Brady Siff
Oct 20, 20208 min read
Joe Biden and Drug Control: A More Complete Picture (Part 1—the 1970s)
Editor’s Note: Today’s post comes from contributing editor Sarah Brady Siff, a visiting assistant professor at the Moritz College of Law...
Sarah Brady Siff
Oct 15, 20209 min read
La Droit de la Drogue: Hachichins, Orientalist Imaginings, and Fears of Foreign Drug Use
Editor’s Note: After bringing Points readers a fantastic write-up of the event itself, Dr. David A. Guba Jr. (Bard Early College,...
David A. Guba Jr.
Jun 12, 20186 min read
The Points Interview: Dan Malleck
Dan Malleck Dan Malleck is an Associate Professor of Health Sciences at Brock University in St. Catherines, Ontario. He is the author of...
Points Editors
Oct 10, 20173 min read
Donald Trump on Drugs: Election 2016, Part I
In response to Donald Trump’s sniffly debate performances over the last month-and-a-half of the 2016 presidential campaign, the...
Kyle Bridge
Nov 3, 20163 min read
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