Meth and Moral Panics, Part One and Part Two led us to the question of whether and how we ought to arbitrate the real in assessing the...

In my first post on the moral panic concept, I briefly described the short-lived furor over smokable crystal methamphetamine between late...

What is it that interests students about the history of drugs?  As it turns out, a wide variety of topics.  And not necessarily the ones...

Earlier today, Points Contributing Editor Michelle McClellan used her experience in a near-empty room at a Women’s Studies conference to...

It might sound like the beginning of a bad joke: one historian, two social workers, and a psychologist walk into a conference room…. but...

NOTE: Dr. Charles Robert “Bob” Schuster passed away on February 21, following a sudden illness.  Bob was a remarkable figure in the...