David T. Courtwright

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David T. Courtwright (born 1952) is an American academic who specializes in drug history. He has taught medical, U.S., and world history at the University of North Florida, where he is presidential professor emeritus in the Department of History.

Works

  • Dark Paradise: Opiate Addiction in America before 1940 (1982)[1]
  • Addicts Who Survived: An Oral History of Narcotic Use in America, 1923-1965 (1989; with Herman Joseph and Don Des Jarlais)[2]
  • Violent Land: Single Men and Social Disorder from the Frontier to the Inner City (1996)
  • Forces of Habit: Drugs and the Making of the Modern World (2001)
  • Sky as Frontier: Adventure, Aviation, and Empire (2004)
  • No Right Turn: Conservative Politics in a Liberal America (2010)
  • The Age of Addiction: How Bad Habits Became Big Business (2019)

Notes

  1. Enlarged edition published as Dark Paradise: A History of Opiate Addiction in America (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2001)
  2. Reprinted as Addicts Who Survived: An Oral History of Narcotic Use in America before 1965 (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2012)

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