Talking Drug Policy and Addiction with Caroline Acker
History for the Future
An interview with Caroline Acker, Associate Professor of History at Carnegie Mellon University. We talk about the development of American drug policy, the meaning of addiction, her work in co-founding Prevention Point Pittsburgh (the area needle exchange program), and drug policy under Obama.
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[How do we develop] ways of perceiving therelationships between and among people, our pasts, our pasts’ legacies, our present lives and struggles, our environments, disciplines, and texts. (24)--Johnnella E. Butler, “Reflections on Borderlands and the Color Line.” (2000) "All the languages of heteroglossia ... are specific points of view on the world, forms for conceptualizing the worldinwords, specific worldviews, each characterized by its own objects, meanings, and values.--Bakhtin
Tuesday, June 01, 2010
History for the Future: Talking Drug Policy and Addiction with Caroline Acker
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Addiction,
Caroline Acker,
Drugs,
Government,
Health,
History
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