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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 Mark of a Criminal: “Vag Addicts,” Police Power, and Civil Rights in Postwar America
Editor’s Note: Today’s post comes from contributing editor Jordan Mylet, a doctoral candidate in history at the University of California,...
Jordan Mylet
Jun 18, 20205 min read
Stories of Synanon, Part One
Editor’s Note: Today’s post comes from contributing editor Jordan Mylet. Mylet is a doctoral candidate in history at the University of...
Jordan Mylet
Nov 26, 201911 min read
Fraud in Addiction Treatment Centers
Editor’s Note: Today’s post comes from guest blogger Nicole Allen. Nicole is a freelance writer and educator based in the Michigan and...
Nicole Allen
Oct 4, 20184 min read
Conference Summary: “I’ve Been to Dwight,” July 14-18, 2016, Dwight, IL
Editor’s Note: This conference summary is brought to you by David Korostyshevsky, a doctoral student in the History of Science,...
David Korostyshevsky
Aug 23, 20167 min read
The State of the Art: The Malcolms’ Examination of Straight, Incorporated, Timeline
Editor’s Note: This is the fifth in a five-part series from Marcus Chatfield, a regular contributor to Points. Here he offers a timeline...
Marcus Chatfield
Aug 4, 20167 min read
The State of the Art: The Malcolms’ Examination of Straight, Incorporated, Part 4
Editor’s Note: This is the fourth in a five-part series from Marcus Chatfield, a regular contributor to Points. Here he continues his...
Marcus Chatfield
Jul 21, 20165 min read
The State of the Art: The Malcolms’ Examination of Straight, Incorporated, Part 3
Editor’s Note: This is the third in a five-part series from Marcus Chatfield, a regular contributor to Points. Here he continues his...
Marcus Chatfield
Jul 14, 20165 min read
The State of the Art: The Malcolms’ Examination of Straight, Incorporated, Part 1
Editor’s Note: This is the first in a five-part series from Marcus Chatfield, a regular contributor to Points. Here he continues his...
Marcus Chatfield
Jun 30, 20164 min read
Alcoholism in Communist Yugoslavia
(Editor’s Note: This post is brought to you by contributing editor Mat Savelli, a postdoctoral fellow at McMaster University in Ontario,...
Mat Savelli
Aug 25, 20155 min read
The Silences of Our Work, Part III: Alternate Paths to Recovery
EDITOR’S NOTE: Today, Points brings you the third in a series of posts on silencing and substance use by Heather Sophia Lee, PhD, LCSW,...
Heather Sophia Lee
Apr 16, 20153 min read
The Silences of Our Work, Part II: Trauma
Editor’s Note: Today, Points brings you the second in a series of posts on silencing and substance use by Heather Sophia Lee, PhD, LCSW,...
Heather Sophia Lee
Apr 9, 20154 min read
The Silences of Our Work, Part I: A Preface
Editor’s Note: Points is delighted to welcome Heather Sophia Lee, PhD, LCSW, an Assistant Professor of Family Medicine and Community...
Heather Sophia Lee
Apr 2, 20154 min read
Has LSD Matured? The Return of Psychedelic R&D
Editor’s Note: This post was written by Lucas Richert and Erika Dyck, and was originally published on The 2×2 Project, an online journal...
Lucas Richert
Nov 25, 20144 min read
The Islands of New York City: How a Real Estate Boom is Turning Former Homes of Crime and Contagion
Editor’s Note: Today’s guest post is a is a modified excerpt from Jessica Diller Kovler’s upcoming book, The Boys of the Bronx, to be...
Jessica Diller Kovler
Sep 18, 20147 min read
Recent News Roundup: The Sobriety Coach Edition
Twelve-step sponsorship is so twentieth century—or so The New York Times would have us believe. In an article published last month in the...
Claire Clark
Aug 14, 20143 min read
Presenting Terada Shin: The Life History of a Female Drug User in Prewar Japan
Editor’s Note: Today, Points features a guest post by Miriam Kingsberg, an assistant professor of history at the University of Colorado...
Miriam Kingsberg Kadia
Jul 10, 20144 min read
Texas Veterans for Medical Marijuana: Backstory on a “War Without End”
Last week, I attended a panel discussion co-hosted by Texas Monthly and the Baker Institute for Public Policy at Rice University. The...
Claire Clark
Jun 24, 20145 min read
Medicine or Vacation? Selling addiction treatment, circa last century
If, like me, you’ve spent the past several years studying the history of addiction treatment, then you might know why I can’t look at...
Claire Clark
Jul 22, 20136 min read
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