Alcohol and Drugs History Society

Latin American theme for Social History of Alcohol and Drugs (Spring 2009)

The Social History of Alcohol and Drugs 23/2 (Spring 2009) focuses on Latin America with articles on Brazil, the Andean countries, and Mexico.  The book reviews cover many parts of the world. Details later.

Drug policy in the Americas, At Last a Debate

The Economist Magazine prints a view contrary to its own position. Here is the link.

Inventing the addict (book)

Susan Zieger, Inventing the Addict: Drugs, Race, and Sexuality in Nineteenth-Century British and American Literature (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2008). Distributed at London by Eurospan.  For Zieger's related articles, see below.

"The Dandy, the Soldier, and the Cigarette: Under Two Flags and the Late Victorian Culture of Smoking." Forthcoming inNineteenth-Century Studies.

"Victorian Hallucinogens." Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net (February 2008). Special Issue #49: Interdisciplinarity and the Body at http://www.ron.umontreal.ca

"Impostors of Freedom: Southern White Manhood, Hypodermic Morphine, and E.P. Roe's Without a Home" American Literature 80:3 (September 2008), 527-554.

"Pioneering Inner Space: Drug Autobiography and U.S. Imperialism." PMLA 122: 5 (October 2007), 1531-47. Special issue, “Remapping Genre,” edited by Wai Chee Dimock and Bruce Robbins.

"Queering the Drug Diary: Go Ask Alice and its Victorian Genealogies.” Genre 39:1 (spring 2006), 89-114

" 'How Far Am I Responsible?': Women and Morphinomania in Late Nineteenth-Century Britain.” Victorian Studies 48:1 (Autumn 2005), 59-81.

"Disciplining Addiction." Review of Ed. Jane Lillienfeld and Jeffrey Oxford’s The Languages of Addiction, (St. Martin's Press, 1999). Journal of Medical Humanities, 22:4 (Winter 2001), pp. 318-321.

"Addiction in the Nineteenth Century." John van Wyhe (ed.), The Victorian Web, (summer 2002).

Drink and drugs revenue in South Asia (article)

Marc Jason Gilbert, "Empire and Excise: Drugs and Drink Revenue and the Fate of States in South Asia," in James H. Mills and Patricia Barton, eds., Drugs and Empires: Essays in Modern Imperialism and Intoxication, 1500-1930 (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007): 116-141.

United States Narcotic Farm 1935-1975

Nancy Campbell, Historian of Science, and Associate Professor of Science and Technology Studies at Rensalear Polytechnic Institute co-edited with filmmakers J.P. Olson and Luke Walden The Narcotic Farm: A History of Photographs, Abrams: New York, 2008. This book is an offshoot of the 1 hour documentary film "The Narcotic Farm" completed last Fall by the two filmmakers and broadcast on various public stations over the last seven months. 

The film is not available for purchase at this time, but people are encouraged to ask their local PBS station to air it. It is distributed to public TV by NETA and is available for all public TV programmers. People are asked to contact the filmmakers through the film website to find out how to preview the film.

Call for Papers: Alcohol & Drugs History Society

Dear ADHS Members:

Here are the upcoming meetings of the American Historical Association. We have two panels for 2010 but there is plenty of time to develop panels for future meetings. I have listed the upcoming meeting of the AHA below. Please feel free to send either paper proposals or full panels. If I receive your proposals before January 2010, I will submit them for the main program of the AHA. Even if the AHA program committee reject them, there is a good chance that the ADHS will place them on its affiliate program. Thanks so much for your consideration!

Sincerely, Scott Haine shaine@aol.com

The Next Several Annual Meetings:

2010—San Diego January 7–10
Manchester Grand Hyatt
San Diego Marriott

2011—Boston January 6–9
Boston Marriott Sheraton Boston
Westin Boston

2012—Chicago January 5–8
Sheraton Chicago
Chicago Marriott

2013—New Orleans January 3–6
New Orleans Marriott
Sheraton New Orleans

2014—Washington, D.C. January 2–5
Marriott Wardman Park
Omni Shoreham Hotel

Drugs and freedom in the liberal age (book)

Toby Seddon, A History of Drugs: Drugs and Freedom in the Liberal Age (Routledge, 2009). Published in September.  Perspective of a lawyer and criminologist. 

Chapter 1 Introduction: Drugs, freedom and liberalism; Chapter 2 Drugs and classical liberalism (c1780-1895); Chapter 3 Drugs and the transition to welfare liberalism (c1895-1930); Chapter 4 Drugs and the welfare state (c1930-1965); Chapter 5 Drugs and the crisis of welfarism (c1965-1980); Chapter 6 Drugs and neo-liberalism (c1980-present); Chapter 7 Conclusion

Obama drops "war on drugs" rhetoric for needle exchanges

A thank you to David Trippel for the tip.  For details, see here.

UN renews controversial anti-drug policy

Members of the UN renewed their controversial anti-drug policy despite complaints that it has led to more incidence of HIV.  For details, see here. Thanks to David Trippel for the tip.

US drugs report

For a report on problems and progress of the USA re drugs, see here.  Thanks to David Trippel for the tip.