Our previous post was number one hundred for the Points blog–a small number, I suppose, in the blogging world, but still something of a milestone for our start-up enterprise! The tag cloud to the right shows the most commonly used tags in the first 100 posts:
Addiction–32 posts; Policy–31 posts; Alcohol–23 posts; law–16 posts; popular culture–16 posts; research–16 posts
The top five most-read posts of the previous 100? Here they are (linked, so you can read them if you missed them the first time they appeared):
1. Clinical Sentiments, Part 2: Shane MacGowan
3. Getting Relief in Wartime: Opioids, Pain Management, and the War on Drugs
4. Warring Cultural Icons? Addiction and Mental Illness as Brain Diseases
5. Work in Progress: Between Biological Reductionism and the Social Construction of Addiction
Joe Spillane is Professor of History at the University of Florida. He has authored Cocaine: From Medical Marvel to Modern Menace in the United States (Johns Hopkins Press, 2000) and co-edited Federal Drug Control: The Evolution of Policy and Practice (Haworth Press, 2004). More recently, he authored Coxsackie: The Life and Death of Prison Reform (Johns Hopkins Press, 2014). His current drug-related research agenda includes: the history and development of drug abuse liability assessment; reflections on the nature of drug epidemics; and examinations of drug war “harms” in historical context.