Special issue: The Social History of Alcohol and Drugs journal (Fall 2025)

Dear Hmadness readers,

the new issue of the Social History of Alcohol and Drugs, devoted to psychiatry and addiction in Europe and guest-edited by Anatole Le Bras and Marianna Scarfone, may be of interest to you. Below you will find the table of contents of this special issue.

Editors’ Introduction

David Herzberg, Nancy Campbell, and Lucas Richert

Guest Editors’ Introduction

Psychiatrists, Addicted Patients, and Institutions of Care: European Histories from the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Anatole Le Bras and Marianna Scarfone

Articles

Iatrogenic Morphinomania and Professional Issues in the Field of French Psychiatry at the End of the Nineteenth Century

Zoë Dubus

Treatment of Alcoholism in La Source (Paris Suburbs, 1902–1911): A History of a Private Medical Institution

Victoria Afanasyeva

“PS: Morphine!” An Addict’s Experiences of Negotiating Morphine Treatment at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century

Rebecka Klette

Difficult Patients: Drug Users and Their Treatment in Early Twentieth-Century Greece

Kostis Gkotsinas

Soldiers, Alcohol, and Insanity at Richmond Asylum, 1860s–1900s

Amy Milne-Smith

Between Rejection and Acceptance: The Paradox of Alcoholic Patients in Psychiatric Institutions (Brussels, 1950s–1970s)

Samuel Dal Zilio

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