Dear all ADHS members and friends
The most recent issue of the Social History of Alcohol and Drugs has  
finally been released in its hard copy.  This is the Spring, 2006  
issue of the journal. Its hard copy release was delayed owing to  
printing delays (see below).  We are now, for all intents and  
purposes, back on track, and the autumn, 2006, issue will be published  
before the end of Autumn, 2006.

If you are a paid-up ADHS member, you should be receiving it soon, if  
you have not already.  If you think you are paid-up but have not  
received your hard copy by the end of October, please contact me to  
check on your membership status.  Most people who received this  
current issue will find a note in with their copy, indicating that  
their membership expires with this issue, and directing you to the way  
to renew your membership, and thereby continue to receive the journal.  
  Your mailing label contains information about when your membership  
expires.

For the past few issues, we have been putting the entire contents of  
each issue of SHAD on the ADHS website as soon as it is ready for  
publication.  This practice has ended.  Beginning with the publication  
of the next issue (Volume 21, Number 1) we will have a one-issue delay  
on the website posting of the SHAD.  That means that Vol 21 #1 will go  
up on the website only after Vol 21#2 is published, and so on.

We strongly encourage you to renew your membership to the ADHS.   
Membership fees go towards supporting several academic activities of  
the ADHS.  First, of course, they support the cost of publishing the  
SHAD.  For the past few years we have benefited from the generosity of  
the Hazelden publishing company, who has printed and mailed SHAD for  
free.  That arrangement ended this summer, and we are now paying to  
publish and send all issues.  Second, ADHS holds sessions at the  
annual AHA conference (this year in Atlanta, Georgia, USA).  We pay  
for that opportunity.  Third, ADHS tries to support occasional  
conferences, such as the one coming up next summer at the University  
of Guelph, Ontario, Canada.  Finally, the ADHS fees also go towards  
the cost of maintaining our website,  
historyofalcoholanddrugs.typepad.com.  This site has had considerable  
traffic, and is an excellent way for members and the general public to  
learn more about the work of our members in studying the history of  
alcohol and drugs.

You can renew your membership on line from links on the website.  If  
you checked the website and found that the links were not there,  
please check again, since the new buttons are now active.  You can  
also send payment by cheque or money order to me, in my capacity as  
acting Treasurer.

If you have any questions, please contact me at the address listed below.

Sincerely

Dan Malleck, PhD
Editor-in-Chief, Social History of Alcohol and Drugs
Secretary/Treasurer, Alcohol and Drugs History Society
Assistant Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences
Brock University
[log in to unmask]