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American Drug History, The Box Set
Over at the blog Mexican Opium, Mikelis Beitiks has began to assemble a “Wordtrack” on the history of American drug law–a kind of...
Also Not for the Squeamish (Or for Anybody, Apparently)– Feminist Alcohol and Drugs Scholarshi
Earlier today, Points Contributing Editor Michelle McClellan used her experience in a near-empty room at a Women’s Studies conference to...
Recovery Lifestyle, 2.0
Today witnesses the launch of TheFix.com, a new “sober lifestyles” site offering “addiction and recovery, straight up” (their words, not...
Capitalism + Dope = Genocide
Lunchtime once again finds me browsing around online, and I’ve stumbled across Michael “Cetewayo” Tabor’s famous 1970 pamphlet...
Work in Progress: Between Biological Reductionism and the Social Construction of Addiction
I recently had the pleasure of speaking with Randolph Nesse about the evolutionary origins of addiction – Nesse is perhaps the leading...
Los Angeles: City of No Surprises
Everyone, including the writer/director, producer, and stars of the film, had figured Debra Granik’s Winter’s Bone a long shot in all the...
Remembering Bob Schuster
NOTE: Dr. Charles Robert “Bob” Schuster passed away on February 21, following a sudden illness. Bob was a remarkable figure in the...
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