drugs

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• SOURCE: NPR
  10/8/2020
  

  Throughline: The United States vs. Billie Holiday (audio)

  Billie Holliday's legal problems over drugs were made more difficult by her refusal to stop performing the anti-lynching song "Strange Fruit." 

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• SOURCE: The Metropole (Urban History Association)
  10/5/2020
  

  “Entrepreneurial Greed” — A Review Of Crack: Rock Cocaine, Street Capitalism, And The Decade Of Greed

  David Farber's book examines the entrepreneurial culture of crack cocaine and how the drug trade meshed with Reagan-era changes in urban political economy.

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• SOURCE: North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA)
  4/30/2020
  

  A History of Inconvenient Allies and Convenient Enemies

  by Alexander Aviña

  The history of American alliances abroad doesn't make sense as a drug control strategy, but is consistent with a strategy of invoking the war on drugs to punish governments that resist U.S. domination.

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• SOURCE: Contingent Magazine
  1/13/20
  

  History and the Opioid Crisis

  by Jeremy Milloy

  In the 1970s, just as now, people living with and recovering from substance use disorders faced prejudice and mistreatment at the hiring stage and in the workplace itself.

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• SOURCE: Time
  1/7/20
  

  How Methamphetamine Became a Key Part of Nazi Military Strategy

  by Peter Andreas

  As Norman Ohler shows in Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany, while other drugs were banned or discouraged, methamphetamine was touted as a miracle product when it appeared on the market in the late 1930s.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  11/18/2019
  

  Why abruptly abandoning the drug war is a bad idea for Mexico

  by Aileen Teague

  Long-term economic initiatives are good, but a power vacuum will make things more violent in the short term.

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• SOURCE: Nursing Clio
  6/18/19
  

  The Opioid Epidemic as Metaphor

  by Faith Bennett

  As cinematic portrayals of opioid use and abuse tend to be this sensational, commonplace opioid usage almost feels as if it doesn’t fit into this pattern of addiction at all. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/16/19
  

  The return of ‘reefer madness’

  by Emily Dufton and Lucas Richert

  Both supporters and opponents of legalization are quick to use sensationalism to prove their points, stunting the pursuit of real research needed to determine cannabis’ social effects.

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• SOURCE: National Security Archive
  5/25/18
  

  Colombia's former president linked to Medellín drug cartel

  A Colombian senator told the U.S. Embassy in 1993 that the founders of the Medellín drug cartel “financed” the election campaign of then-senator Álvaro Uribe Vélez, according to documents posted by the National Security Archive.

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• 6/3/18
  

  The Opioid Addiction Epidemic Is an 8 on the Richter Scale

  by David T. Courtwright

  Here’s how we got here and why this historian is guardedly optimistic.

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• 5-5-16
  

  Why Have Military Historians Ignored Drug Use in the Military?

  by Lukasz Kamienski

  It’s a serious oversight, and there are disturbing reasons for it.

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• Obama's Lost War on Drugs

  by Jeremy Kuzmarov

  Rather than relying on our hopeless forty-fourth president and an even more hopeless Republican-controlled Congress, citizen groups need to mobilize together to oppose the waste of their hard earned taxpayer dollars in the War on Drugs. 

• SOURCE: LA Music Blog
  5-20-13
  

  Rock music historians debunk myths about Rolling Stones

  Many stories and figures have emerged from the hazy shroud of the genre-defining, five-decades-long sex-, drugs-, and rock n’ roll-fueled bender of The Rolling Stones. God knows some of the stories are exaggerated, while others are even more outrageous than we know.In celebration of The Stones’ 50th anniversary, broadcaster and music historian Pete Fornatale endeavored to get to the bottom of many of the stories surrounding The Rolling Stones’ members and catalog. He passed away in 2012 shortly before the release of his book, 50 Licks: Myths and Stories from Half a Century of the Rolling Stones, earlier this year, but I recently spoke with his two co-authors: son Peter Thomas Fornatale and broadcaster Bernie Corbett....