>I think it's an interesting idea and from my research 1970 is an especially >appropriate year. Throughout the 1960s, sociologists, following the Howard >Becker theory of social deviance, began to go into the ghettos and ask heroin >addicts how <they> perceived their life. Ron Roizen quite correctly notes >Spradley's <You Owe Yourself A Drunk> for alcoholics but there were even >earlier studies of opiate addicts: Isidor Chien, et. al's <The Road to H> >(1964); Allan Sutter's "The World of the Righteous Dope Fiend" (1966); Edward >Preble and John Casey's "Taking Care of Business: The Heroin User's Life in >the Street" (1969). Another significant contribution forcing Americans to >look at addiction as something that happens to real people was Claude Brown's >eloquent autobiography <Manchild in the Promised Land> (1965). A little bit >later (1974) was Robert Straus' amazing <Escape Into Custody> on >institutionalization and alcoholism. From my perspective, these works >represents a symbolic end to an era of dehumanization and provides the real >possibility of asking the types of questions your conference is seeking to >ask. Best of luck. ---------------------- Information from the mail header ----------------------- >Sender: Alcohol and Temperance History Group <[log in to unmask]> >Poster: "<[log in to unmask]>" > <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: 1970/1995/2020 >------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >I'm doing a teaching session soon where I'm going to ask participants >(mainly drug/alcohol clinicians/researchers/planners) to look back to 1970 >(approx.) and identify significant events/trends in the D&A field (and >society at large), then to put a 1995 perspective on them - wisdom in >hindsight etc. >Then jump to 2020, speculate about what's happening then, then try to get >some 2020 hindsight on 1995). >I'd welcome any ideas about: >1. What was really important c.1970 (e.g. Vietnam, the U.S. Controlled >Substances Act...) >2. What might be happening in 2020 >3. How 1995 will look from 2020. >All contributions welcome! > >Melissa Raven >National Centre for Education & Training on Addiction [NCETA] >Flinders University BEDFORD PARK SA 5042 AUSTRALIA >Telephone 61(0)8 201 7557 Fax 61(0)8 201 7550 >Email [log in to unmask] Mark C. Smith University of Texas at Austin