8th Biennial Alcohol and Drugs History Society Conference Borders, Boundaries & Contexts: Defining Spaces in the History of Alcohol & Drugs Bowling Green State University Bowling Green, OH USA June 18-­‐21, 2015 2 ADHS OFFICERS President Scott C. Martin, PhD Bowling Green State University Vice President/ President Elect Virginia Berridge, PhD London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Secretary/Treasurer Cynthia Belaskie, PhD York University Editor, SHAD Dan Malleck, PhD Brock University 2015 CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEE Charles Ambler, PhD University of Texas, El Paso Isaac Campos, PhD University of Cincinnati Timothy Hickman, PhD University of Lancaster Holly Karibo, PhD Tarleton State University Miriam Kingsberg, PhD University of Colorado Scott C. Martin, PhD Bowling Green State University Stephen Snelders, PhD VU Medical Center, Netherlands Yang-­‐wen Zhen, PhD University of Manchester 3 Book Exhibit The BGSU bookstore will offer a selection of books on alcohol and drugs topics outside the bookstore entrance on the second floor of the Bowen Thompson Student Union, on the other end of the building from BTSU 207, where the Fringe Event exhibition will be displayed. The books are available for purchase in the bookstore. Hours of the exhibit are Friday, June 19, 9am to 4pm, and Saturday, June 20, 12pm to 5pm. Jerome Library Gallery Exhibit Jerome Library will mount a themed gallery exhibit specifically for the ADHS conference. The exhibit will include items from all the Library’s Special Collections: the Brown Popular Culture Library, the Center for Archival Collections, the Curriculum Resource Center, and the Music Library and Sound Recordings Archives. The display is on the first floor near the circulation desk. Library hours during the conference are : Thursday, June 18, 8am to 10pm; Friday, June 19, 8am to 6pm; Saturday, June 20, 10am to 6pm; and Sunday, June 21, 1pm to 10pm. 4 Schedule of Events Thursday, 18 June 2015 4:00-­‐6:30 Registration 201A Bowen Thompson Student Union (BTSU) 7:00-­‐9:00 PLENARY SESSION 201A Bowen Thompson Student Union (BTSU) 1. The Heroin/Opioid Epidemic in Northwest Ohio: A Panel Discussion 201A BTSU Chair: Scott C. Martin Bowling Green State University Welcome: Dale Klopfer, PhD Associate Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, BGSU Opening Remarks: Amy O’Grady, JD Director of Criminal Justice Initiatives Ohio Attorney General’s Office Discussants: Dr. Andrew Kolodny Chief Medical Officer, Phoenix House Foundation Executive Director, Physicians for Responsible Opioid Prescription Caroline Acker, PhD Carnegie Mellon University Keith Burris Columnist, Toledo Blade Sheriff John Tharp Lucas County Sheriff’s Department 9:30-­‐10:00 Reception 308 BTSU 5 Friday, 19 June 2015 8:30-­‐5:00 Registration 207 BTSU 8:30-­‐9:30 Continental Breakfast 207 BTSU 9:00-­‐4:00 Fringe Event: Exhibit 207 BTSU “What a Temperance Collection Looks Like” Dave Trippel 9:00-­‐10:30 CONCURERENT SESSIONS 2. Drugs in North American Borderlands 314 BTSU Chair and Commentator: Amilcar Challu Bowling Green State University Fighting the ‘Drug Problem’ in the North America Borderlands, 1945-­‐
1960 Holly Karibo Tarleton State University Inhuman Terrain: Arizona Ranchers Encountering Drug Cartels Martin Scott Catino Henley Putnam University 6 3. Public Health and the War on Drugs 315 BTSU Chair and Commentator: Charles Ambler University of Texas, El Paso Transforming relationships: Heroin and harm reduction in the neighborhood hangout spaces of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, 1989-­‐ 2014 Sheryl McCurdy University of Texas Houston Health Science Center Who is the Injection Drug User?: The Intertwined Construction and Governance of an Emergent HIV/AIDS Risk Group Kelly Szott Syracuse University and the National Development and Research Institutes 4. Crime and Law Enforcement in the History of Alcohol and Drugs 316 BTSU Chair and Commentator: Shirley Green Bowling Green State University “Who Will Address this Looming Menace?”: Policing the Migrant Drunkard on Montreal’s Urban Fringe, 1840-­‐1860 Dan Horner Ryerson University Prohibition’s Hangover: Murder, Gangsters, and Gambling in Toledo, Ohio, 1920 -­‐ 1970 Matthew Lawrence Daley Grand Valley State University 7 10:45-­‐12:15 CONCURRENT SESSIONS 5. Legal Lines and Social Realities in the U.S.-­‐Mexico Borderlands 314 BTSU Chair and Commentator: Holly Karibo Tarleton State University Criminal Spaces: Drug and Alcohol Prohibitions Impact on the Rio Grande Borderlands George T. Diaz Sam Houston State University Narcos and Narcs: Violence and the Transformation of Drug Trafficking and Policing at the Texas-­‐Mexico Border Santiago Ivan Guerra Colorado College 6. Society’s Responses to the “High and Low” Cultures of Drinking in Britain, 1872-­‐2015 315 BTSU Chair and Commentator: David Fahey Miami University Guardians of Taste: The Private Drinking Culture of London’s Late Victorian Gentlemen’s Clubs Thora Hands University of Strathclyde Scottish Medicine and the “Alcohol Question”: From the Late Victorian Peak to the Interwar Trough Iain Smith University of Glasgow Alcohol Policy in Scotland and the UK, 1950-­‐2015 Peter Rice Scottish Health Action on Alcohol Problems 7. Lecture: The Twenty-­‐first Century Opioid Epidemic 316 BTSU Dr. Andrew Kolodny Chief Medical Officer, Phoenix House Foundation Executive Director, Physicians for Responsible Opioid Prescription 8 12:30-­‐1:30 Lunch & ADHS Business Meeting 202B BTSU 1:45-­‐3:15 PLENARY SESSION 8. The Future of Alcohol and Drugs History: Perspectives from the Class of ’79 to the Present 206 BTSU (Theater) Panelists: Charles Ambler, University of Texas, El Paso Cynthia Belaskie, York University Isaac Campos, University of Cincinnati David Courtwright, University of North Florida W. Scott Haine, University of Maryland, University College William J. Rorabaugh, University of Washington 3:30-­‐5:00 CONCURRENT SESSIONS 9. What a Temperance Collection Looks Like: Fringe Event Exhibition Talk 207 BTSU Presenter: Dave Trippel Independent Scholar, Collector of Primary Sources, 1800-­‐2000 10. Rethinking Addiction 314 BTSU Chair and Commentator: Caroline Acker Carnegie Mellon University Food as Drug David Courtwright University of North Florida Lessons Learned: What Chemical Addiction Can Teach Us About Process Addiction Lauren Lehmann University of Virginia ‘Leslie E. Keeley and the Nineteenth-­‐century Brain Science of Addiction Timothy Hickman University of Lancaster 9 13. Psychiatry in the History of Drugs and Alcohol 315 BTSU Chair and Commentator: Isaac Campos University of Cincinnati Merging Conversion and Therapy: The Development of Harry Tiebout’s Thought Laura Cama Independent Scholar Alcoholism, Society, and Psychiatry: The Case of the Alcoholic Patients in the General Insane Asylum “La Castañeda,” 1910-­‐1940 Alejandro Salazar Bermúdez Facultad de Filosofía y Letras UNAM Temperance as Resilience: New Psychiatric Research and American Temperance Literature of the Mid-­‐Nineteenth Century Jon Miller University of Akron 5:45 Fringe Event Toledo Mud Hens vs. Norfolk Tides, 5/3 Field, Toledo, with Optional Craft Beer Tasting Bus Leaves from Centennial Hall Parking Lot at 5:45 PM 10 Saturday, 20 June 2015 8:30-­‐9:30 Continental Breakfast 207 BTSU 9:00-­‐10:30 CONCURRENT SESSIONS 14. Good and Bad Drugs: Pharmacy in the History of Alcohol and Drugs Policy 314 BTSU Chair and Commentator: David Herzberg University of Buffalo Toward a History of Counterfeit Drugs: Intellectual Property And Black Markets in Three Bayer Drugs Joseph M. Gabriel Florida State University College of Medicine When Crooks, Dunkin, and Scott Enter a Drug Store: Pharmacists And the Constraints of the Liquor Laws in Victorian Canada Dan Malleck Brock University The Demarcations of Professional Pharmacy and the Origins of An Urban Market in Illicit Drugs Richard Del Rio University of Chicago 11 9:00-­‐10:30 Continued 15. Society’s Price: The Struggle to Control Opium Addiction 315 BTSU Chair and Commentator: William J. Rorabaugh University of Washington Enforcing Smoking-­‐Opium Laws on Nevada’s Comstock Lode: The Beginnings of Drug Regulation in the United States Diana L. Ahmad Missouri University of Science and Technology Sympathy and Scorn: The Role of Class in Shaping Antebellum American Attitudes toward Opium Dependency Elizabeth Kelly Gray Towson University 16. Temperance Thought: Contexts and Legacies 316 BTSU Chair and Commentator: Cynthia Belaskie York University Benjamin Rush in the Atlantic World: The Early-­‐modern Origins of Temperance in the United States David Korostyshevsky University of Minnesota ‘A Disease of the Rich?’: About Preindustrial Danish Drinking Sidsel Eriksen Copenhagen University T. S. Arthur and Eugene O’Neill: Temperance Theater and The Iceman Cometh Grant Gosizk University of Kent 12 17. Cultural Theory, Discursive Analysis, and the History of Drugs 318 BTSU Chair and Commentator: Jon Miller University of Akron The Production and Consumption of ‘Modern’ Scientific Knowledge about Cannabis Sativa in the United States, 1920-­‐1937 Bob Beach University of Albany ‘Strange invasions, strange connections: space, identity, and US (anti-­‐)drugs discourse’ Ferdinand Nyberg Freie Universitat Berlin 10:45-­‐12:15: CONCURRENT SESSIONS 18. Gendered Spaces in Alcohol and Drugs History 314 BTSU Chair and Comment: Beth Griech-­‐Polelle Bowling Green State University More than Friends: a look at the emotional history of the British Women's temperance movement Cynthia Belaskie York University Elizabeth Bass and the Case of the Missing District Supervisor: How Gender Shaped the Politics of Drug Enforcement Matthew Pembleton American University The Emerging of Association-­‐Based Addiction Prevention in Prussian Magdeburg (Germany) until 1933 Sabine Schaller University of Applied Sciences Magdeburg-­‐Stendal 13 19. Writing the History of Coca 315 BTSU Chair and Comentator: Suzanna Reiss University of Hawai’i, Manoa Coca Counterfactuals: On the Non-­‐diffusion of Coca Beyond The Andes Kendra McSweeney Ohio State University Coca in Colombia: The Roots of an Illicit Peasant Crop, 1950-­‐1995 Maria-­‐Clara Torres Stony Brook University 20. Defining Intoxicants and the Intoxicated 316 BTSU Chair and Comment: Walter Grunden Bowling Green State University International Drug Control and Decolonization Charles Ambler University of Texas at El Paso Japanese Policing in Harbin, 1940 Kathryn Meyer Wright State University Tree of Life, Assassin of Wives: Apprehending the Shape-­‐Shifting Ganga Plant in the Greater Caribbean, 1880-­‐1940 Eron Ackerman Stony Brook University 12:30-­‐1:30 Lunch 207 BTSU 14 1:45-­‐3:45 PLENARY SESSION 21. Drugs as Pharmaceuticals, Pharmaceuticals as Drugs 202B BTSU (Ballroom) Chair and Commentator: David Herzberg University of Buffalo Transatlantic Drug Dystopias – Sketches of an Entangled History of Drug Abuse, 1950-­‐1980 Nils Kessel University of Strassbourg Defining Addiction, Dangerous Drugs, and Drug Control in the Mid-­‐ Twentieth Century Suzanna Reiss University of Hawai’i, Manoa 15 4:00-­‐5:30 CONCURRENT SESSIONS 22. Regulating Opium and Alcohol in Global Perspective 318 BTSU Chair and Commentator: Ami Pflugrad-­‐Jackisch University of Toledo Did Guild Organization Matter? Rent Seeking in Holland’s Early Modern Brewing Industry Richard Yntema Otterbein University Missionaries in the Chinese and Cherokee Nations Kris Steele Central Florida University Alcohol Policy and Authoritarian States: Bringing in the Eastern Bloc Esther Wahlen European University Institute 23. Medical Responses to Substance Abuse 314 BTSU Chair and Comment: Scott C. Martin Bowling Green State University Nursing Responds to Substance Abuse Amy Mittelman Independent Scholar “We Want to Help this Man and Not Kick Him Down”: Addicted Doctors in the “Classic Era” of Narcotic Control David Herzberg University of Buffalo Benning House, 1970-­‐1983 R. Wheatley Fort Benning, GA 16 24. Recovery Revolutions and Counter-­‐Revolutions 315 BTSU Chair and Commentator: Michelle McClellan University of Michigan A Geographic Cure: Mapping the Spread of Alcoholics Anonymous, 1940-­‐1950 Claire Clark University of Texas Health Sciences Center, Houston The 19th-­‐century Temperance Movement’s Influence on Alcoholics Anonymous Kevin Kaufmann Loyola University (Insert Addiction Here): Twelve-­‐Step Recovery and the Advent of the “Addictive Personality” Kyle Bridge University of Florida 25. Intoxicated: Cultural Highs and Conflicted Discourses about Altered States 316 BTSU Chair and Commentator: Harold Rosenberg Bowling Green State University Out of the Hands of Experts Alexine Fleck Community College of Philadelphia Signs of Life: Intoxication and the Rational User Ingrid Walker University of Washington, Tacoma 17 5:30-­‐6:30 Fringe Event: Points Blog Reception Black Swamp Pub, BTSU 6:30-­‐7:30 Dinner Break On Own 7:45 Fringe Event ADHS Trip to the Movies The Gish Film Theater, First Floor, Hanna Hall First Feature: Stoned cinema of the 1960s and 1970s, presented by Stephen Siff and Ringo Jones, Miami University of Ohio Second Feature: TBA 18 Sunday, 21 June 2015 8:30-­‐9:30 Continental Breakfast 207 BTSU 9:30-­‐11:30: CONCURRENT SESSIONS 26. Gender, Class, and Intoxication in Global Perspective: The Early 20th Century 314 BTSU Chair and Commentator: Amy Mittelman Independent Scholar Cafes and Bars in Transatlantic Context: Simone de Beauvoir’s Explorations of America’s Intoxicants and Social Spaces W. Scott Haine University of Maryland, University College “America” in Dutch Newspaper Discourse on Narcotic Addiction, 1880-­‐1940 Lisanne Walma University of Utrecht Drunkenness and Humour in Brighton’s Court Reports, 1880-­‐1939 Richard Robinson University of Helsinki 19 9:30-­‐11:30 continued 27. US Drug Control Policy since 1950 315 BTSU Chair and Commentator: David Courtwright University of North Florida U.S. Drug-­‐Control Politics at the Turn of the Sixties: The Case of California and the Feds Sarah Brady Siff Ohio State University “Users and Abusers: FDA’s Bureau of Drug Abuse Control and the Consumer Protection Origins of the Federal War on Drugs” Matthew June Northwestern University The National Commission on Drug Abuse: Marijuana Reconsidered Eugene Hillsman Princeton University 28. Perspectives on US Prohibition 318 BTSU Chair and Commentator: Kevin Kern University of Akron A Place in the Party: Wets, Drys, and the Klan at the 1924 Democratic National Convention Joe Faykosh Bowling Green State University “Ham-­‐Strung, Shackled, and Tied”: The Ku Klux Klan and Prohibition Enforcement in Wood County, Ohio Michael E. Brooks Bowling Green State University Political Preaching, Prohibition, and Anti-­‐Catholicism in Texas, 1887-­‐1928 Brendan J. Payne Baylor University 20 9:30-­‐11:30 continued 29. The Shifting Meanings, Legal Status, and Effects of Cannabis 316 BTSU Chair and Coment: Timothy Hickman Lancaster University ‘At Once a Curse and a Blessing to Mankind’: Hemp Intoxication and Orientalism in the Anglo-­‐Atlantic, 1830s-­‐1870s Bradley J. Borougerdi University of Texas, Arlington Poisoning by Cannabis: Medical Jurisprudence and the Origins of Marijuana Prohibition in the United States, 1860-­‐1900 Adam Rathge Boston College Reefer Madness and Mexican Psychiatric Patients: More Evidence That the Phenomenon Was Real? Isaac Campos University of Cincinnati