Alcohol and Drugs History Society
The Alcohol and Drugs History Society ( ADHD ) is an international historical society based in the United States . ADHD emerged in 2004 from the Alcohol and Temperance History Group , which was founded in 1979. It serves the exchange of researchers who are concerned with the social history of alcohol and drug consumption (production, trade, abuse, state regulation).
The president of ADHD is the cultural historian Tim Hickman, Lancaster University , the German member of the twelve-person executive committee is Hasso Spode (as of 2017).
The Society is editor of the peer-reviewed journal The Social History of Alcohol and Drugs: An Interdisciplinary Journal (SHAD). SHAD editor-in-chief is Dan Malleck from Brock University, Canada .