My great-grandfather poisoned drinkers during Prohibition
In a grim irony, his descendants – my grandmother and mother – struggled with drink. Here’s what I’d tell him about addiction
by Rebecca Lester
Rebecca Lester is professor of sociocultural anthropology at Washington University in St Louis, Missouri, and a licensed clinical social worker. She is the author of Jesus in Our Wombs: Embodying Modernity in a Mexican Convent (University of California Press, 2005) and Famished: Eating Disorders and Failed Care in America (University of California Press, 2019).
Written by Rebecca Lester