HoPP Interview—Mat Savelli, “Crafting the Modern Via Psychoactivity Advertisements”
This post is from Points, the joint blog of AIHP and the Alcohol and Drugs History Society. Points publishes original reflections about the history of drugs, medicines, alcohol, pharmacy, and their allied fields. This is the first installment of the Points series of interviews with authors from the inaugural issue of AIHP’s journal History of Pharmacy and Pharmaceuticals (HoPP) (vol. […]
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Documenting the Evolution of Hospital and Clinical Pharmacy: Remembering the Career of Joseph Oddis
This post is from Points, the joint blog of AIHP and the Alcohol and Drugs History Society. Points publishes original reflections about the history of drugs, medicines, alcohol, pharmacy, and their allied fields. A recently published tribute to Joseph A. Oddis (1928–2021), an extraordinary organizational leader in pharmacy, offers historical insights into the transformation of pharmacist […]
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Pharmacy in History Interview—Rachael Pymm, “Transmitting Medical Exotica”
This post is from Points, the joint blog of AIHP and the Alcohol and Drugs History Society. Points publishes original reflections about the history of drugs, medicines, alcohol, pharmacy, and their allied fields. This is the second installment of the Points series of interviews with authors from the latest issue of Pharmacy in History (vol. 62, […]
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Pharmacy in History Interview—Kathi Badertscher, “Insulin at 100: Indianapolis, Toronto, Woods Hole, and the ‘Insulin Road'”
This post is from Points, the joint blog of AIHP and the Alcohol and Drugs History Society. Points publishes original reflections about the history of drugs, medicines, alcohol, pharmacy, and their allied fields. This is the first installment of the Points series of interviews with authors from the latest issue of AIHP’s journal Pharmacy in […]
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“Ethical Displays”: AIHP’s Frank Pinchak Poster Collection & the History of Public Health Information
This post is from Points, the joint blog of AIHP and the Alcohol and Drugs History Society. Points publishes original reflections about the history of drugs, medicines, alcohol, pharmacy, and their allied fields. “Records indicate that over 90 MILLION AMERICANS still need to be vaccinated,” blares the 26-inch by 42-inch professionally printed cardboard poster. “Epidemics […]
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A Bloody Business: American Vaccine Production at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
This post is from Points, the joint blog of AIHP and the Alcohol and Drugs History Society. Points publishes original reflections about the history of drugs, medicines, alcohol, pharmacy, and their allied fields. Blood is everywhere I look in the Kremers Reference Files (KRF) at the American Institute of the History of Pharmacy (AIHP). It’s […]
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“Buried Alive in a Chemical Tomb”: The Story of the “Trip or Trap” Anti-Drug Playing Card Deck
This post is from Points, the joint blog of AIHP and the Alcohol and Drugs History Society. Points publishes original reflections about the history of drugs, medicines, alcohol, pharmacy, and their allied fields. “This Trip or Trap Card Deck is an attempt to educate through facts and ridicule,” wrote public health advocate Dr. Wayman Rutherford […]
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Zada, Gloria, and the Sisters: Excerpts from A Conversation with Dr. Metta Lou Henderson
This post is from Points, the joint blog of AIHP and the Alcohol and Drugs History Society. Points publishes original reflections about the history of drugs, medicines, alcohol, pharmacy, and their allied fields. During March 2021, we celebrate Women’s History Month and recognize the significant contributions of women in history and society. I think it’s […]
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“…In Preference to a Better Qualified Woman”: Remembering Pharmacy Pioneer and Women’s Rights Activist Nellie Wakeman
This post is from Points, the joint blog of AIHP and the Alcohol and Drugs History Society. Points publishes original reflections about the history of drugs, medicines, alcohol, pharmacy, and their allied fields. “Whenever a woman comes into competition with a man she must not only be as good but considerably better than the man […]
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Hidden Addicts: The Elderly and the Opioid Epidemic
This post is from Points, the joint blog of AIHP and the Alcohol and Drugs History Society. Points publishes original reflections about the history of drugs, medicines, alcohol, pharmacy, and their allied fields. “The face of the nation’s opioid epidemic increasingly is gray and wrinkled,” wrote The Washington Post in 2018, “but that face often is overlooked […]
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“The Environment was Just Ice”: Desegregating the University of North Carolina School of Pharmacy
This post is from Points, the joint blog of AIHP and the Alcohol and Drugs History Society. Points publishes original reflections about the history of drugs, medicines, alcohol, pharmacy, and their allied fields. When thinking about school desegregation, many picture 6-year-old Ruby Bridges, flanked by federal marshals and ascending the steps of her New Orleans elementary […]
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The Complicated Legacy of James E. Brown (c. 1802–1853), Liberian Colonial Apothecary
This post is from Points, the joint blog of AIHP and the Alcohol and Drugs History Society. Points publishes original reflections about the history of drugs, medicines, alcohol, pharmacy, and their allied fields. In the May 4, 1834, edition of the Liberia Herald, James E. Brown, the newly arrived Colonial Apothecary, placed an advertisement announcing his […]
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Drugstores and the Color Line: Remembering Pharmacies as Sites of the Civil Rights Movement
This post is from Points, the joint blog of AIHP and the Alcohol and Drugs History Society. Points publishes original reflections about the history of drugs, medicines, alcohol, pharmacy, and their allied fields. On August 6, 1894, Abraham D. Cecil, an African American painter and interior decorator from Bloomington, Illinois, visited the drugstore of Hamer […]
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80 Years of the American Institute of the History of Pharmacy
This post is from Points, the joint blog of AIHP and the Alcohol and Drugs History Society. Points publishes original reflections about the history of drugs, medicines, alcohol, pharmacy, and their allied fields. On January 22, 1941, six men gathered in a pharmacognosy laboratory at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and founded the American Institute of […]
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Review: “Drug Use For Grown-Ups: Chasing Liberty in the Land of Fear”
This post is from Points, the joint blog of AIHP and the Alcohol and Drugs History Society. Points publishes original reflections about the history of drugs, medicines, alcohol, pharmacy, and their allied fields. Dr. Carl Hart’s timely Drugs for Grown-ups: Chasing Liberty in the Land of Fear attempts to ignite a shift in our collective consciousness—much like […]
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Sensationalism in Defense of Anti-Narcotics is no Vice
Revisiting the Cinematic History of Reefer Madness This post is from Points, the joint blog of AIHP and the Alcohol and Drugs History Society. Points publishes original reflections about the history of drugs, medicines, alcohol, pharmacy, and their allied fields. In a recent appearance on the Fiber Nationpodcast, I was asked about the significance of […]
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Maine’s 2020 Marijuana Market Report
This post is from Points, the joint blog of AIHP and the Alcohol and Drugs History Society. Points publishes original reflections about the history of drugs, medicines, alcohol, pharmacy, and their allied fields. In the year 2020, the State of Maine officially legalized the sale of recreational marijuana—good timing for the industry, considering that the […]
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