Society for the Study of Addiction to Alcohol and other Drugs

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0120 SA/SSA
Held at	: Wellcome Library   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://wellcomelibrary.org/ ›
Full title	: Society for the Study of Addiction to Alcohol and other Drugs
Date(s)	: 1920s-1970s
Level of description	: Collection (fonds)
Extent	: 5 boxes
Name of creator(s)	: Society for the Study of Addiction to Alcohol and other Drugs x Society for the Study and Cure of Inebriety London Society for Study of Addiction | Society for the Study of Addiction to Alcohol and other Drugs x Society for the Study and Cure of Inebriety
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Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

The Society for the Study and Cure of Inebriety was founded in 1884 as a pressure group in response to the inadequacy of the Habitual Drunkards Act of 1879.

In 1946 the Society changed it's name to the Society for the Study of Addiction to Alcohol and other Drugs.

The London Society for Study of Addiction is the London branch of the Society for the Study of Addiction to Alcohol and other Drugs.

The Society's current aims are to promote the communication and spread of scientific knowledge about dependence on drugs and alcohol and other forms of dependence associated with compulsive behaviour, and to encourage the systematic study of the forms of dependence.

The Society jointly sponsors the Dent Lecture with the Department of Pharmacology, Kings College London.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers of the Society for the Study of Addiction to Alcohol and other Drugs, 1920s-1970s, comprising minutes, 1921-1969 and 1976; registers of attendance, 1904-1939; financial records, 1930s and 1960s; and uncatalogued meeting papers and correspondence, 1965-1968. Including minutes of the London Society for Study of Addiction, 1965-1967.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

Arranged in sections as follows:

A Minutes

B Accounts

C Miscellaneous

Conditions governing access:

The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Photocopies/photographs/microfilm are supplied for private research only at the Archivist's discretion. Please note that material may be unsuitable for copying on conservation grounds, and that photographs cannot be photocopied in any circumstances. Readers are restricted to 100 photocopies in twelve months. Researchers who wish to publish material must seek copyright permission from the copyright owner.

Finding aids:

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

These papers were deposited in 1990 by Malcolm Lader, the President of the Society, and Virginia Berridge who had been consulting them for her history of the Society. The attendance register (C4) was donated in 1990 by the Medical Society of London, on whose premises the Society's meetings were held.

Allied Materials

Related material:

Publication note:

Virginia Berridge, "The Society for the Study of Addiction 1884-1988", British Journal of Addiction vol 85, no 8, Aug 1990.

Virginia Berridge, "The archives of addicition: The Society for the Study of Addicition" in Archives vol 20, no 88, Oct 1992.

Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Compiled by Anya Turner.

Rules or conventions:
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions:
June 2008