My interview with Helena Hansen, Jules Netherland, DavidHerzberg on their book Whiteout: How Racial Capitalism Changed the Color of Opioids in America. Capitalism and illusory promise of whiteness not only shaped reaction to opioid crisis but made the crisis. thedigradio.com/podcast/racism…

Mail came, woo hoo! Lucky me to get to work with the inspiring & brilliant Helena Hansen and Jules Netherland. More info at The Dig thedigradio.com/podcast/racism… and NBN newbooksnetwork.com/whiteout Also see authors talk with Robin D.G. Kelley on April 12: eventbrite.com/e/whiteout-how…

If you have time for a look, there is great stuff in the two most recent issues of the Social History of Alcohol and Drugs. journals.uchicago.edu/toc/shad/curre… journals.uchicago.edu/toc/shad/0/0

Today, @eehatton kicks off a joint symposium with our friends at Inquest on carceral labor. In this opening post, she explains how the carceral state functions as a system of labor governance—both within and beyond prison walls. lpeproject.org/blog/labor-and…

Join us this Saturday, May 20 for the Virtual Program of our annual meeting! AAHM members you should have the webinar link in your inbox. If you aren't currently a member and want to register, you can still join us! Register here: bit.ly/3Ijfwmy

Heartbreaking, horrifying, and enraging, ⁦Zachary Siegel⁩ and ⁦Shoshana Walter ✏️⁩ with two different looks at parents, children, and drug politics/policies. Must reads. newrepublic.com/article/173425… revealnews.org/a-mothers-wors…

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I'm not a quant guy so can't evaluate the math, and OD stats have their issues, but the results make sense to me: Supply-side interventions need to be designed to protect ALL consumers' wellbeing not just the ones we call "patients." rand.org/pubs/external_…

My dept at University of Buffalo-SUNY is hiring: Open-rank, tenure-track in hist of sci, health, or disability in S/SE Asia or Latin America. Part of cluster of interdisciplinary hires in this field including a historian of Africa. Email me with Qs! h-net.org/jobs/job_displ…

Important data here undermining the (always suspect) argument that criminal punishment is the truly caring/protective response to addiction. nytimes.com/2023/08/29/opi…

This Ahead of Print article in The Social History of Alcohol and Drugs offers a new history of the troubled teen industry in the United States. Read it here: ow.ly/4a3Y50PJvGP A&D History

“Addiction” may be super complicated and on the way out as a term to explain harmful/chaotic drug use, but it seems unambiguously bad when enormous multinational corporations who definitely believe in addiction devote themselves to creating a ton of it. washingtonpost.com/wellness/2023/…

“Tolerating” low-level dealing fixes only one problem, it doesn’t *regulate* drug sales to protect consumers and the neighborhoods they live in. Doesn’t incentivize good selling practices. We know how to use regs to shape market behaviors lets try that. nytimes.com/2023/09/24/nyr…

How does "colorblindness" contribute to racial health inequities, and what can we do about it? Ben Sommers, Sam Sommers and I discuss this question—prompted by the recent SCOTUS decision on affirmative action—in our new JAMA Health Forum article jamanetwork.com/journals/jama-…

Friend and colleague Nancy Campbell, who cleverly does not use this evil/dysfunctional social media site, asks for help circulating an open rank job posting for her dept. careers.rpi.edu/en-us/job/4941… The position is Community-Engaged STS and Community-Based Research at RPI.

A small thing in the moment but a welcome one: today's mail brought the latest issue of History of Pharmacy and Pharmaceuticals, a special issue on commerce and psychedelics. It looks great. @LucRichert

Buffalo will host the Alcohol and Drug History Society conference, June 2024. -wonderful (interdisciplinary) scholarship -good folks -great (cheap!) city **funding for students/ECRs/int'l travelers esp from Global South Proposals due Nov 15- join us! networks.h-net.org/node/73374/ann…