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The article introduces the first issue of the Social History of Alcohol and Drugs journal for 2024. It highlights four articles that explore various aspects of the history and regulation of drugs and alcohol. The first two articles focus on the production of knowledge and expertise around drug harms and prevention in the United States, particularly regarding prenatal exposure to cannabis and the transformation of prevention sciences. The other two articles examine the regulation of alcohol in Greco-Roman antiquity and seventeenth-century Ottoman Istanbul, challenging the notion of universal alcohol bans for religious reasons. The article concludes with an announcement about changes to the blog associated with the journal. [Extracted from the article]

These separate styles, argues Halliwell, relied on "morphine addiction narratives" that propelled the social striation of addiction trajectories and cultures of reception. "Making space legible and territories calculable is central to modern forms of governmentality", writes geographer Boris Michel in his article on the role of maps in the spatial problematization of public alcohol consumption in early nineteenth-century temperance movements. Like other scholars after the "spatial turn" in social theory and history, historians of alcohol and other drugs attend to multiple dimensions of the politics of space: How it is socially constructed?. [Extracted from the article]