Santiago Canyon College Library Hosts NLM’s “Pick Your Poison” Traveling Exhibit

Posted by Alan Carr on April 10th, 2019 Posted in: Consumer Health, NLM Products, Outreach, Public Health
Tags: NLM traveling exhibitions

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by Alice Ho
Librarian
Santiago Canyon College Library
Orange, CA

After traveling across the country for three years, the NLM traveling exhibit Pick Your Poison: Intoxicating Pleasures & Medical Prescriptions arrived in Southern California. From March 27 to May 3, students and library users will be able to enjoy this nicely done exhibit at the Santiago Canyon College library in the city of Orange.

This exhibit explores the use of tobacco, alcohol, opium, cocaine and marijuana in the history of America. It demonstrates some of the factors that have shaped the changing definitions of some of these mind-altering drugs from medical miracle to social menace. The exhibit was developed by the National Library of Medicine and National Institute of Health, and was curated by Dr. Manon Parry, Professor of Medical History at the Vrje Universiteit, Amsterdan, and Senior Lecturer in American Studies and Public History at the University of Amsterdam.