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...

Over at the blog Mexican Opium, Mikelis Beitiks has began to assemble a “Wordtrack” on the history of American drug law–a kind of...

The Observer reports on how Wachovia – one of the United State’s largest banks before it was purchased by Wells Fargo in 2008 – laundered...

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...

Today witnesses the launch of TheFix.com, a new “sober lifestyles” site offering “addiction and recovery, straight up” (their words, not...

In 2009 the West African country of Guinea Bissau made a rare and brief appearance in the international media when, in the early hours of...