Another #history lesson, from the book Last Call: The Rise and Fall of #Prohibition by Daniel Okrent: politician and naval hero Richmond P. Hobson, a strident "dry" helped promote the anti-liquor sentiment using #racist paternalism and tropes - including claims that alcohol often drove black Americans (not the language used at the time) to cannibalism. Hobson is considered likely the MOST liberal of southern Democrats at the time on the topic on "the race issue."
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We are a division of the Society for the Study of Social Problems and seek to understand the social problems surrounding substance use.
Philip N CohenAlso, AAPSS is having a launch webinar for the issue, Thursday at 2pm ET, with five researchers and moderator Jason DeParle. Registration: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/1316783176624/WN_xAtlzne4QtaZfVL5fCCwfA
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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Community consequences of the opioid epidemic . After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
Please join the American Academy of Political and Social Science (AAPSS) and the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin for a webinar on the societal consequences of the opioid epidemic, particularly as they affect child well-being. The conversation will draw findings and insights from the forthcoming volume of the AAPSS journal, The ANNALS, which uses data from local, state and federal sources to investigate how opioid use disorder impacts the effectiveness of our education system, strains social services including child welfare agencies, and creates fiscal burdens across social welfare infrastructure. Each of the panelists contributed to the volume. You can read the unlocked volume here: https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/anna/703/1 Moderator: Jason DeParle, Reporter, The New York Times Speakers: Colleen Heflin, Syracuse University Shannon Monnat, Syracuse University Lindsey Bullinger, Georgia Institute of Technology Jessica Pac University of Wisconsin-Madison Jessica Drescher, Stanford University The virtual event will feature a discussion among experts and a Q&A with attendees.
Back in the late-19th Century, Mary Hunt crusaded to create a generation of "liquor hating" voters by ensuring that schools across America taught "scientific" Temperance education three days a week. This education consisted of fabrications and misinformation including the suggestion that liquor would make a drinker go blind and kills everyone who consumes it. Her efforts, and misinformation, were later echoed in other prohibition efforts (e.g., cannabis, opium). https://www.alcoholproblemsandsolutions.org/temperance-beliefs-temperance-teachings/ #history
Imogen TylerReconceptualising stigma as a political economy of dehumanisation & devaluation requires critical methods rooted in people’s knowledge of & struggles against the social structures that, as Du Bois puts it, produce them as ‘markedly inferior'.
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ASA Drugs and SocietyAmerica's #history of #DrugProhibition is quite a bit like the history of alcohol #prohibition, with a few differences. Both prohibitions increased use and abuse, created a robust illegal smuggling and distribution industry, killed scores of Americans, and increased the potency of available substances (the "iron law of prohibition"). One difference, the U.S. gave up on alcohol prohibition after 13 years, whereas prohibition of #cannabis, #cocaine, #opium, etc. continues. https://drugpolicy.org/issues/brief-history-drug-war
#Introduction and #request for #Global perspectives on #SubstanceUse (aka #drugs)
The Society for the Study of Social Problems (#SSSP, based in N. America) pursues, as the name suggests, a sociological understanding of #SocialProblems. The drinking and drugs section focuses on social problems related to the consumption of alcohol and other #psychoactive substances.
Since #Mastodon is a global community, this is the perfect place for us to get caught up on the global drugs conversation.
Nathaniel D. Porter@drewburns @wrigleyfield @asadrugsoc @ASA_SKAT I don't, but if you search `mastodon sociologists` you can find multiple lists that are importable to auto-follow (and add yourself to some). Here's one I used to get started: https://trutzig89182.github.io/Mastodon-Sociologists/
Taylor LorenzUPDATE: Fiverr says it’s stopping all advertising on Twitter after the CCDH found many examples of advertiser content running next to hateful, misogynistic tweets and conspiracy theories from far right influencers https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/02/09/twitter-ads-revenue-suspended-account/ #twitter #twittermigration #technology #elonmusk
New article by Suzan M. Walters and friends on HCV risk for PWID in rural settings. Enjoy! https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0955395922003462
Imagine if the UK media took a swipe at Harry, formerly of Sussex, for #drinking during his mourning process, rather than taking "trips" (their quotes) on #ayahuasca and #psilocybin. People might not only empathize, but imagine they'd do the same thing.
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Why do some #PsychoactiveSubstances get demonized and others not? Why does consumption of some #drugs get #stigma and others get associated with fun, #family, #masculinity, or the holidays (just to pick a few at random)?