New Books in Drugs, Addiction and Recovery

Psychedelics, Mysticism, Aliens, and the Dao (Pierce Salguero and Dominic Steavu)

Dr Pierce Salguero sits down with Dominic Steavu, a historian of Chinese religion and healing...

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Kris Butler, "Drink Maps in Victorian Britain" (Bodleian Library, 2024)

What is a ‘drink map’? It may sound like a pub guide, yet it actually refers to a type of late...

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Greg Wrenn, "Mothership: A Memoir of Wonder and Crisis" (Regalo Press, 2024)

A dazzling, evidence-based account of one man’s quest to heal from complex PTSD by turning to...

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Alke Jenss, "Selective Security in the War on Drugs: The Coloniality of State Power in Colombia and Mexico"...

Paramilitaries, crime, and tens of thousands of disappeared persons—the so-called war on drugs...

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Miracle Man (with Joe McGivney)

Lifelong alcoholic Joe McGivney drank himself into brain damage and permanent disability. The day...

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Max Felker-Kantor, "DARE to Say No: Policing and the War on Drugs in Schools" (UNC Press, 2023)

With its signature "DARE to keep kids off drugs" slogan and iconic t-shirts, DARE (Drug Abuse...

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Jennifer Regan-Lefebvre, "Imperial Wine: How the British Empire Made Wine’s New World" (U California...

Imperial Wine: How the British Empire Made Wine’s New World (University of California Press,...

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George Fisher, "Beware Euphoria: The Moral Roots and Racial Myths of America's War on Drugs" (Oxford UP, 2024

George Fisher, the Judge John Crown Professor of Law at Stanford Law School, just released his...

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Julia Ornelas-Higdon, "The Grapes of Conquest: Race, Labor, and the Industrialization of California Wine,...

California’s wine country conjures images of pastoral vineyards and cellars lined with oak...

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Matthew D. Lassiter, "The Suburban Crisis: White America and the War on Drugs" (Princeton UP, 2023)

Most accounts of post-1950s political history tell the story of of the war on drugs as part of a...

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Inside Addiction and Sobriety in Academia

How do the pressures of academia affect our relationships with ourselves, our work, and with...

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Chris S. Duvall, "The African Roots of Marijuana" (Duke UP, 2019)

There's so much discussion in the contemporary United States about marijuana. Debates focus on...

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Erika Dyck, "Psychedelic Prophets: The Letters of Aldous Huxley and Humphry Osmond" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2018)

Today I talked with historian Erika Dyck about Aldous Huxley, Humphry Osmond and their...

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David Courtwright, "The Age of Addiction: How Bad Habits Became Big Business" (Harvard UP, 2019)

We are living in an age of addiction, from compulsive gaming and binge eating to pornography and...

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Sean Howe, "Agents of Chaos: Thomas King Forçade, High Times, and the Paranoid End of the 1970s" (Hachette...

It wasn’t easy writing a biography the mysterious, shape-shifting Thomas King Forçade, but after...

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Leontina Hormel, "Trailer Park America: Reimagining Working-Class Communities" (Rutgers UP, 2023)

In rural northern Idaho in the winter of 2013-2014, Syringa Mobile Home Park’s water system was...

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Ann C. Bracken, "Crash: A Memoir of Overmedication and Recovery" (Charing Cross Press, 2022)

Ann Bracken has published three poetry collections, The Altar of Innocence, No Barking in the...

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Sébastien Tutenges, "Intoxication: An Ethnography of Effervescent Revelry" (Rutgers UP, 2022)

For two decades, Sébastien Tutenges has conducted research in bars, nightclubs, festivals, drug...

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E. Summerson Carr, "Working the Difference: Science, Spirit, and the Spread of Motivational Interviewing"...

Motivational interviewing (MI) is a professional practice, a behavioral therapy, and a...

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Andrew Monteith, "Christian Nationalism and the Birth of the War on Drugs" (NYU Press, 2023)

Many people view the War on Drugs as a contemporary phenomenon invented by the Nixon...

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