Announcements:

Drinking & Drugs Senior Scholar Award

Congratulations to Claire Sterk, Professor at Emory University, the recipient of the 2011 Senior Scholar Award.

  BOOKS OF INTEREST

Available Now from University of California Press:  Philippe Bourgois (UPenn) & Jeff Schonberg (UCSF) Righteous Dopefiend  Currently Available at: http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/9188.php 

 

Available Now from Criminal Justice Press:  Dina Perrone (Bridgewater State University) THE HIGH LIFE: Club Kids, Harm and Drug Policy  Currently Available at: http://www.criminaljusticepress.com/142.html

 

 

 

Available Now from New York University Press: Wendy Chapkis (Sociology, University of Southern Maine) & Richard J. Webb (Communications, San Jose State University) DYING TO GET HIGH: MARIJUANA AS MEDICINE. 

“A beautifully written account from the front lines of the struggle between a federal drug war complex determined to keep demonizing marijuana and the growing movement of patients and doctors who have found marijuana to be a valuable medicine.”

Craig Reinarman

Editor of Crack in America: demon drugs and social justice (University of California Press)