SSSP Drugs and Drinking Section Meeting – July 8, 2024

Attendance:
David Frank
Andrew Burns
Joshua Stout
Ellen Benoit
Sam Friedman 
Dina Perrone

* Alex Bennett (not attending) mentioned to David the name of 2025 SSSP “Insurgent Sociology in a Time of Crisis” fails to include non-sociologists (e.g., anthropologists). 

* Discussion of SSSP 2025 Chicago Sections.
o Sam: epidemiology, overdose prevention, and ending the overdose crisis. 
* What would it really take to solve the overdose epidemic in the United States?
o Ellen: suggests survivors (participant science, autoethnography)?
* Discussion of CITI training for citizen scientists.
* Dina: possible title “Doing Community Participatory Action Research with People who Use Drugs.”
* Sam: reverse it, “People who use drugs doing community action research.”
* Joshua: mutual aid reference can be useful in broadening interests.
o David suggests including a drug sale or drug trade as a research topic.
* Joshua suggests considering it being connected with globalization.
* Sam suggested including historic perspective. 
o Drew: Medicalization of Psychedelics
o Dina: 75 Years of SSSP, 75 Years of Drug War Research

* Dina suggest we need to work to increase graduate award.

Ended meeting with discussion about plans to discuss Chicago planning further while in Montreal.