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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
Call for Nominations for the George Urdang Medal
From the American Institute of the History of Pharmacy The American Institute for the History of Pharmacy is now accepting nominations...
Points Editors
Mar 14, 20232 min read
Points Interview: Henry Yeomans and Laura Fenton
Individuation and drinking culture among young people Today’s post features an interview with Henry Yeomans, a Professor of Criminology...
Points Editors
Dec 8, 20226 min read
Points Interview: Cannabis and control in South Africa with Thembisa Waetjen
Today’s post features an interview with Thembisa Waetjen, a professor at the University of Johannesberg. She is a historian focusing on...
Points Editors
Nov 10, 20224 min read
Points Interview: Cocaine and nightlife in late 19th century Rio de Janeiro with Athos Vieira
Today’s post features an interview with Athos Vieira, a historian from Brazil, who recently completed a Ph.D. in sociology from...
Points Editors
Nov 3, 20224 min read
Points Interview: ‘Born addicts’ in North Africa with Nina Studer
Today’s post features an interview with Nina Studer, a UK-based historian. Nina focuses on the history of medicine and colonial medicine...
Points Editors
Oct 27, 20224 min read
SALIS Digital Library—Indispensable Drug & Alcohol History Resource
SALIS Collection home page. Editor’s Note: Today’s post comes from Points Editor Emeritus Ron Roizen. Dear POINTS readers, If you haven’t...
Ron Roizen
Dec 16, 20212 min read
The War on Drugs: From Book to Website
Editor’s Note: Today’s guest post is from Dr. David Farber, Roy A. Roberts Distinguished Professor of Modern U.S. History at the...
David Farber
Dec 14, 20215 min read
Addiction Lives Interview: Moira Plant
Editor’s Note: This is the latest installment of the “Addiction Lives” interview project, a print and online collaboration between the...
Points Editors
Sep 14, 20212 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—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
The Ayahuasca Phenomenon in Historical Perspective
Editor’s Note: Today’s post comes from guest contributor Chris Elcock. Elcock is an STS postdoctoral fellow working at the Centre...
Chris Elcock
Jan 23, 20204 min read
Call for Proposals: Drug Policy Research Incubator Pleasure and Self-Regulating Drug Use
Editor’s Note: We’re double-posting today for an exciting reason. See below for a call for proposals from the Drug Policy Alliance that...
Points Editors
Aug 13, 20192 min read
Points Interview: Stephanie Schmitz, Purdue University Archives & Special Collections
Editor’s Note: This interview was conducted and written by Lucas Richert, Chancellor’s Fellow in Health History at Strathclyde and...
Lucas Richert
Aug 9, 20184 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
Witness Seminar: HIV/AIDS Prison Policy in England and Wales, 1980s-1990s
Editor’s Note: Recently Drs. Janet Weston and (current ADHS president) Virginia Berridge hosted a witness seminar, a method of oral...
Points Editors
Sep 13, 20172 min read
The German Museum of Pharmacy: A Historiographic Time Capsule
Editor’s Note: This post is brought to you by Miriam Kingsberg, an assistant professor in the department of history at the University of...
Miriam Kingsberg Kadia
Aug 25, 20165 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
Online Video Resources for Alcohol, Drug, and Addiction History
Talks from Addictions Old and New (October 22-23, 2017) and the National History Center Congressional Briefing on the History of Drug...
David Courtwright
Jun 23, 20161 min read
The Films of Adrian Cowell: Opium stories from the Shan State to Hong Kong to Washington, DC
EDITOR’S NOTE: Points is thrilled to welcome Hannah Palin (Film Archives Specialist) and Nicolette Bromberg (Visual Materials Curator)...
Points Editors
May 12, 20155 min read
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