Editor’s Note: Over five posts, and as part of the Points Pharmaceutical Inequalities feature, Gabriel Lake Carter will provide...

Editor’s Note: This post is brought to you by Leanne Horinko, the interim director of the office of graduate admissions at Drew...

Note from Ron: Here is another tribute to the late Joe Gusfield, authored by Harry Gene Levine. It circulated via email among some of...

About midway through the semester last fall my department asked me if I wanted to teach my own course in the spring. My dissertation was...

SAGE Reference is seeking authors for some of the 550 entries in a new work entitled Alcohol: Social, Cultural, and Historical...

This past weekend alcohol and drug scholars across the globe descended upon London’s School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine to learn...

Editor’s Note: Guest Blogger Chris Bennet takes us inside the Cannabis Roots Conference held this November in Vancouver, Canada —...

Several semesters ago, I taught an interdisciplinary course called Addiction in History, Science, and Culture. I had a wonderful group of...

Longtime Points readers no doubt know that one of the blog’s founding interests lies in bridging (or breaching) the institutional,...

I recently had the pleasure of attending the annual meeting of the American Association for the History of medicine in Baltimore. It’s a...

Editor’s Note: We’ve been very pleased to post a series of responses to David’s Courtwright’s essay on addiction, history and...

Editor’s Note: Today, we present the final set of reflections in our Points symposium on addiction, history and historians. Last week’s...

Editor’s Note: Our symposium on addiction, history and historians continues today, with a response to David Courtwright from Prof. Daniel...

Editor’s Note: Our roundtable on addiction, history and historians continues with a commentary on David Courtwright’s essay from Dr. Alex...

Editor’s Note: This week, Points offers readers a series of responses to David Courtwright’s reflections on history, historians, and...

This month, the journal Addiction published an essay by David Courtwright, “Addiction and the Science of History.” For readers...

There’s plenty of self-promoting, self-referential nonsense out there in the blogosphere. When it came time to thinking about “Points on...

In the second half of her post to the “Teaching Points” series, Contributing Editor Michelle McClellan reflects on how...

Editor’s Note: In the second part of our inaugural post to the “Teaching Points” series, Contributing Editor Joe Gabriel ruminates on...

The window is closing fast for next month’s scintillating Alcohol and Drugs History Society Conference on The Pub, the Street, and the...