Added on August 18, 2022 Historical essay Losing ‘sorrow in stupefaction’: American Women’s Opiate Dependency before 1900 In 1791 Elizabeth Blake tried to help her sister, New Yorker Catalina Hale, to end her years-long dependency on laudanum, […]
Added on August 18, 2016 Historical essay Disproving Self-Indulgence: Congenital Addiction in the Early Twentieth Century On October 10, 1989, police arrived at the Medical University of South Carolina. They handcuffed Lori Griffin, a black girl […]