October 2022 – Points: short & insightful writing about the long & complex history of drugs & alcohol

Points Interview: ‘Born addicts’ in North Africa with Nina Studer

October 27, 2022 by Points Editor

Today’s post features an interview with Nina Studer, a UK-based historian. Nina focuses on the history of medicine and colonial medicine in Middle East and North Africa.

Nina recently authored ‘’The native is indeed a born addict, but so far he has not yet found his true poison’: Psychiatric theories on overconsumption and race in the colonial Maghreb‘ in the upcoming Fall 2022 issue of the Social History of Alcohol and Drugs. Find out more about Nina’s background, article and future research plans in this interview.

Transdisciplinary Approaches for Psychedelic Experiences Lecture

October 25, 2022 by Points Editor

The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s School of Pharmacy is hosting a reading group and lecture featuring Dr. Kwasi Adusei on October 26, 2022 as part of the Borghesi-Mellon workshop series. Registration is open at this link: https://go.wisc.edu/7aufbn

Call For Papers: “Training, learning and education”

October 20, 2022 by Points Editor

The British Society for the History of Pharmacy have announced their 2023 annual conference in Oxford, UK, themed ‘Training, learning and education’. This has been accompanied by a call for papers for the conference:

The toad boom: the false narrative of ancestral 5-MeO-DMT use

October 18, 2022 by Anny Ortiz

Editorial Note: Anny Ortiz returns with her fourth contribution to the Pharmaceutical Inequalities series. In this latest post she interrogates how the false narrative of ancestral 5-MeO-DMT use, that started with one man ten years ago, has given way to toad churches that may threaten the future viability of their sacrament – the toad. The Pharmaceutical Inequalities series is funded by the Holtz Center and the Evjue Foundation.

The Insubordination of Private Miller

October 13, 2022 by sarahbradysiff

Because I have started watching many Seth Rogan films but have finished none of them, it’s lucky for me that the one historical scene of Pineapple Express (2008), which I will analyze below, is also the opening scene. I would hate to have missed it.

Call For Papers: ‘It’s Five O’clock Somewhere’: Time, Alcohol, and Other Beverages

October 11, 2022 by Points Editor

In this call for papers, Dr Peter J. Howland is seeking contributions from all disciplines that ‘critically explore the history and/or ethnographies of time and the roles that it plays in the production, exchange and consumption of drinks and beverages’. Deadline November 4, 2022.

Points Interview: Cannabis narratives in British India with Utathya Chattopadhyaya

October 17, 2022October 6, 2022 by Points Editor

Today’s post features an interview with Utathya Chattopadhyaya, an assistant professor at the University of California-Santa Barbara. He is a historian focusing on the British Empire and South Asia, who looks at British colonialism’s role in reshaping agrarian communities and the political economy of intoxicant commodities.

Utathya recently authored ‘Reading cannabis in the colony: Law, nomenclature, and proverbial knowledge in British India‘ in the upcoming Fall 2022 issue of the Social History of Alcohol and Drugs. Find out more about Utathya’s background, article and future research plans in this interview.

Call for Papers: ‘Regulating Reproduction in the History of Pharmaceuticals and Drugs’

October 4, 2022 by Points Editor

History of Pharmacy and Pharmaceuticals, the official journal of the American Institute of the History of Pharmacy (AIHP), is pleased to announce a call for papers for a special issue: “Regulating Reproduction in the History of Pharmaceuticals and Drugs.” Guest editors for the special issue will be Dr. Kelly O’Donnell of Yale University and Dr. Lauren MacIvor Thompson of Kennesaw State University.

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