Elizabeth Kelly Gray
Associate Professor of History at Towson University focusing on early American history, cultural history, and the history of addiction; author of Habit Forming: Drug Addiction in America, 1776–1914 (Oxford University Press, 2023).
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Jan 24, 2026 • 59min
Elizabeth Kelly Gray, "Habit Forming: Drug Addiction in America, 1776-1914" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Elizabeth Kelly Gray, Associate Professor of History at Towson University who studies addiction and early American history, traces habit-forming drug use from 1776 to 1914. She discusses widespread medical opiate use, laudanum and morphine among middle-class women, hashish and opium den culture, shifting public attitudes after the Civil War, and how early regulation transformed a health issue into a legal one.
