D R I N K I N G & D R U G S D I V I S I O N __Summer 2009 Matters of Substance 2009 Annual Meeting Program Theme: “Race, Ethnicity, and the Continuing Problem of the Color Line” 59th Annual Meeting August 7th to 9th, 2009 The Stanford Court Hotel, San Francisco, CA We hope to see you there! Details about the meeting on pages 5 through 8 New Publications__________________________ Dina Perrone (Bridgewater State University) THE HIGH LIFE: Club Kids, Harm and Drug Policy “A new study of New York City drug users (ages 22-33) who self-identify as (dance) “club kids” challenges stereotypes of the typical drug user and common assumptions about controlling drug-related harms. Ethnographic research illuminates the club kids’ distinctive subculture, describes their patterns of drug use, and explores the factors that protect them from harms such as arrests and illness. Richly detailed and remarkably candid interview data vividly portray how the subjects manage to maintain productive, middle-class lifestyles despite engaging in heavy drug use.” Currently Available from Criminal Justice Press: http://www.criminaljusticepress.com/142.html Philippe Bourgois (Anthropology and Family and Community Medicine, University of Pennsylvania) and Jeff Schonberg (Medical Anthropology, University of California, San Francisco). RIGHTEOUS DOPEFIEND "Plunge beneath the surface of America's no-man's lands. Find in the dead-end alleyways, storage lots, and overgrown embankments the terrifying but strangely ordered world of homeless heroin injectors. This book will test your cultural relativism to destruction, but along the way you will learn a great deal about destitution, about homelessness, about addiction, and about violence at all levels. These dopefiends are 'made in America'." Paul Willis Author of Learning to Labor: How Working Class Kids Get Working Class Jobs, and co-founding editor of Ethnography Available as of May 25, 2009 – Order now at: http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/9188.php Announcements: SSSP Membership: You can renew your SSSP membership via our secure website at: http://www.sssp1.org/index.cfm/pagid/925/fuseaction/ssspmember.portal All SSSP members receive a year’s subscription to the journal, Social Problems.  Upon joining SSSP any past issues in the membership year will be provided to new members. Members also receive Social Problems Forum: The SSSP Newsletter.  Social Problems Forum is published three times year. Members are eligible to join up to three of SSSP's special problems divisions at no additional charge.  With numerous special problem divisions, three is a hard choice.  For a small charge of $2 per division, members can join the other 18 as well.  Membership in the special problems divisions allows current members to vote on who will be chair of the division and also receive the division’s unique newsletters.  All current members receive a reduced rate to attend our Annual Meeting. Drinking & Drugs Division Reception The Section SSSP Drinking and Drugs Division will once again be holding its annual joint reception with the ASA Alcohol, Drugs, and Tobacco. This year’s reception will be held at the Institute for Scientific Analysis at 390 4th Street in San Francisco. Date/Time: Sunday August 9, 2009 starting at 7pm SSSP Drinking & Drugs Division Sessions Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA August 7th to 9th, 2009 Drinking and Drugs Division Page 1