{"title":"“There Are People in All Walks of Life Who Are Using This Substance”: Drugs, Discourse, and the Student Counterculture at the Le Dain Commission, 1969–70","authors":"N. Ruston","doi":"10.1086/712659","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/712659","url":null,"abstract":"The late 1960s were a turbulent time on Canadian postsecondary campuses. University students were both the subjects of and participants in the broader discourse regarding the counterculture and drug use. Many participants in this discourse presumed a close relationship between students, drug use, and countercultural perspectives, but the records of the Le Dain commission challenge some of these associations. Held throughout 1969 and 1970, the Le Dain commission transcripts from hearings held on university campuses across Canada suggest that while Canadian postsecondary students broadly endorsed drug policy reforms, they simultaneously resisted the more radical aspects of the late-1960s countercultural discourse.","PeriodicalId":53627,"journal":{"name":"The social history of alcohol and drugs","volume":"35 1","pages":"33 - 64"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1086/712659","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44192989","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Opioid Documents: A Report on the Politics of the Public Record","authors":"A. Lentacker","doi":"10.1086/713409","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/713409","url":null,"abstract":"Lawyers in the ongoing opioid litigation have obtained millions of documents from the drug manufacturers, distributors, and pharmacies blamed for the ravages of the opioid crisis. What will happen to these documents if the suits are settled? Will they form a public archive of one of the worst man-made public health disasters in memory? Or will they remain locked away, perhaps permanently? In search for answers, this piece traces a longer history of the role of the courts in shaping the public record on drugs. It discusses what the recent scholarship on pharmaceuticals and pharmaceutical knowledge owes to past litigation against the drug industry, but also highlights some of the forces that have eroded the public record in both the scientific and legal arenas over the last few decades. These forces, I argue, have converged in the case of opioids, raising urgent questions about the implications of litigating public health issues in secret.","PeriodicalId":53627,"journal":{"name":"The social history of alcohol and drugs","volume":"35 1","pages":"137 - 165"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1086/713409","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44045999","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Detectives, Detectors, and Drug Sniffers: Institutionalizing the Drug Dog Before and After Counterinsurgency","authors":"J. W. Hubbard","doi":"10.1086/712738","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/712738","url":null,"abstract":"The popularity of drug-sniffing dogs since the 1970s rests on the contributions of a dying technological movement—counterinsurgency science. A comparison of two drug-sniffing dog programs—the Federal Bureau of Narcotics’s detective dog of the 1940s and 1950s, and the Department of Defense’s detector dog of the 1960s and 1970s—documents how federal agents failed to institutionalize drug-sniffing dogs, while Department of Defense researchers succeeded. The disparate outcomes of the two programs illustrate, first, the contingent institutional factors involved in adopting dogs for drug control, and second, the fragile institutional relationships supporting counterinsurgency science and new drug-control strategies after the Vietnam War.","PeriodicalId":53627,"journal":{"name":"The social history of alcohol and drugs","volume":"35 1","pages":"65 - 90"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1086/712738","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48195216","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Problem Substances: Temperance and the Control of Addictive Drugs in Nineteenth-Century Australia","authors":"M. Allen, Natalie Thomas","doi":"10.1086/712581","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/712581","url":null,"abstract":"During the second half of the long Australian nineteenth century (ca. 1840–1914), drugs were subjected to increasing government control in a process largely driven by the temperance movement. Temperance activism and its highly public campaign against alcohol were the key to a profound shift in the social imaginary of drugs—the common understanding of intoxicating substances—which were converted from symbols of individual deviance to the structural cause of social problems. The temperance movement promoted the disease concept of addiction and lobbied governments for expanded controls on alcohol, a model that was later copied by critics of opium. But more importantly, temperance and its radical attack on alcohol as a problem in itself inspired a fundamental shift in the public discourse about drugs that paved the way for modern drug prohibition. This article uses a series of government inquiries into alcohol and opium to illustrate their transformation into problem substances by the early twentieth century.","PeriodicalId":53627,"journal":{"name":"The social history of alcohol and drugs","volume":"35 1","pages":"3 - 32"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1086/712581","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46926675","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Introduction","authors":"Nancy Campbell, David Herzberg, Lucas Richert","doi":"10.1086/713987","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/713987","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53627,"journal":{"name":"The social history of alcohol and drugs","volume":"35 1","pages":"1 - 2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1086/713987","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44687757","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ray Oldenburg, The Joy of Tippling: A Salute to Bars, Taverns, and Pubs. Great Barrington, MA: Berkshire, 2019.","authors":"Scott Haine","doi":"10.1086/713012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/713012","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53627,"journal":{"name":"The social history of alcohol and drugs","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1086/713012","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48961394","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Theorizing Alcoholic Drinks in Ancient India: The Complex Case of Maireya","authors":"James McHugh","doi":"10.1086/712740","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/712740","url":null,"abstract":"An alcoholic drink called maireya is prominent in ancient texts from South Asia, and features prominently in Buddhist law on alcohol. The article considers what we can say about the chronology, the nature, and the cultural significance of maireya. Maireya became prominent several centuries BCE, maintaining this high profile until the early first millennium CE. It was theorized to be made with an innately flexible formula with a secondary fermentation. Maireya is presented as a drink of social distinction. Flexible and based on sugars, maireya was an ideal drink to pair with the cereal-based drink called surā in Buddhist law, which reflects both the tastes and theories of this early period.","PeriodicalId":53627,"journal":{"name":"The social history of alcohol and drugs","volume":"35 1","pages":"115 - 136"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1086/712740","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48145088","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"From 'papaber errat' to 'tincture of opium': Poppies, opiates and pain in early modern Scotland, c. 1664 to 1785.","authors":"James H Mills","doi":"10.1086/712739","DOIUrl":"10.1086/712739","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article will focus on the uses of opiates in early-modern Scotland in an effort to trace the surprisingly neglected story of just how poppy-based substances were used in this period across the British Isles. It explores their history in medical practices there, examining sources as varied as household recipes, apothecaries' invoices, and the family correspondence of surgeons alongside the medical treatises and publications of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. In considering the deployment of medicinal concoctions made from both the local red poppy and imported opium from the white poppy, the article argues that use of the former may have paved the way for the development of a market for the latter; the mild analgesia to be had from the rhoeadine of the red flowers had prepared medical practitioners and others for the more potent painkilling to be had from papaver somniferum products. In this light the imported opium looks less like an 'exotic' addition to the medicine of the period in Britain, and more like an enhancement drawn into existing ideas and practices. The article also concludes that, as there is no evidence to be found in these sources of anyone using the new products for intoxication, it was pain and not pleasure which drove the market for imported opium.</p>","PeriodicalId":53627,"journal":{"name":"The social history of alcohol and drugs","volume":"35 1","pages":"91-114"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7616905/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46900163","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"China and the Origin of International Opium Commission","authors":"Zhiliang Su","doi":"10.1086/710642","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/710642","url":null,"abstract":"This year’s International Anti-Drug Shanghai Forum and International Symposium on the History of the Relationship between Society, Government and Science and Psychoactive Substances was named “Changing Minds: Societies, States, the Sciences and Psychoactive Substances in History.” The forum was held at Shanghai University in conjunction with the biennial meeting of the Alcohol and Drugs History Society (ADHS) and took its cue from recent shifts in attitudes toward and understandings of intoxicants and psychoactive substances, exploring inner drivers for change in ideas about such materials from a historical perspective.","PeriodicalId":53627,"journal":{"name":"The social history of alcohol and drugs","volume":"34 1","pages":"233 - 239"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1086/710642","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47760005","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Drug War Dialectic in Early Twentieth-Century Chicago","authors":"Richard Del Rio","doi":"10.1086/710641","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/710641","url":null,"abstract":"This article shows how the violence, carceral capitalism, and racialization that characterized Chicago’s drug war politics at the turn of the twenty-first century hold historical roots in the changes of the pharmaceutical industry during the late nineteenth. Historical research on the evolving business cultures of pharmacy during this period reveals that tensions between drug manufacturers, wholesalers, and retailers contributed to the familiar operating structure of Chicago’s illegal drug market. The first years of the twentieth century witnessed a modernizing moment for drug war politics when the interests of retail pharmacists and social reformers coalesced on a police reform campaign intent on “waging war” on “dope.” Historicizing the century-old existence of violence, invasive policing, and prison growth in the market shows how the consuming policy challenges of drug war politics have grown in scale over time and hold origins in the old insecurities of a market dominated by mass-produced proprietary medicines.","PeriodicalId":53627,"journal":{"name":"The social history of alcohol and drugs","volume":"34 1","pages":"297-319"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1086/710641","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"60713487","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}