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Present	Presidential Professor, University of North Florida ‐ History
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1988 - 1995	Chairman, Department of History, Philosophy , and Religious Studies, University of North Florida
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History, Legal, Social History, and United States History

U.S. History, Legal History, Social History, and Medical History

Presidential Professor

Department of History

University of North Florida

1 UNF Drive

Jacksonville, Florida 32224-2645

USA

Office fax: 904-620-1018

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Articles (16)

How Progressive Was Prohibition?

Cambridge Review of International Affairs (2023)

David T Courtwright

Commentary on Mark Lawrence Schrad, Smashing the Liquor Machine: A Global History of Prohibition (New York: Oxford University Press, 2021) ...

Alan Meyer. Weekend Pilots: Technology, Masculinity, and Private Aviation in ...

The American Historical Review (2016)

David T. Courtwright

Gendered Drugs and Medicine: Historical and Socio-cultural Perspectives ed. by ...

Bulletin of the History of Medicine (2016)

David T. Courtwright

Preventing and Treating Narcotic Addiction — A Century of Federal Drug ...

New England Journal of Medicine (2015)

David T. Courtwright

Just over a century ago, in March 1915, the Harrison Narcotic Act took effect, requiring anyone who imported, produced, sold, ...

The Cycles of American Drug Policy

History Faculty Research and Scholarship (2015)

David T Courtwright

Book Review: Maguire and Ritter, Thai Stick: Surfers, Scammers, and ...

Pacific Historical Review (2015)

David T. Courtwright

The Prescription Opioid and Heroin Crisis: A Public Health Approach ...

Annual Review of Public Health (2015)

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Virginia Berridge, Demons: Our Changing Attitudes to Alcohol, Tobacco, and ...

Social History of Medicine (2015)

David T. Courtwright

Learning from Las Vegas: Gambling, Technology, Capitalism, and Addiction

History Faculty Research and Scholarship (2014)

David T Courtwright

Gambling has always led to addictive behavior in some individuals. However, the number and types of addicted gamblers have changed ...

The Opium Problem: A Review Essay

Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences (2013)

David T. Courtwright

Opium is one of the most useful and complex drugs in medical history. Made from the juice of the unripe ...

A Short History of Drug Policy or Why We Make ...

History Faculty Research and Scholarship (2012)

David T Courtwright

Overseas trade and European expansion in the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries turned psychoactive drugs, including spirituous alcohol and tobacco, ...

Una breve historia de políticas sobre drogas, o por qué ...

History Faculty Research and Scholarship (2012)

David T Courtwright

El comercio de ultramar y la expansión europea durante los siglos XVI, XVII y XVIII convirtieron las sustancias psicoactivas, incluidos ...

The NIDA Brain Disease Paradigm: History, Resistance and Spinoffs

History Faculty Research and Scholarship (2010)

David T Courtwright

This article examines ‘the NIDA paradigm’, the theory that addiction is a chronic, relapsing brain disease characterized by loss of ...

Mr. ATOD’s Wild Ride: What Do Alcohol, Tobacco, and ...

History Faculty Research and Scholarship (2005)

David T Courtwright

All researchers agree that individuals can become intoxicated by and dependent on alcohol, tobacco, and other psychoactive drugs. But they ...

The Hidden Epidemic: Opiate Addiction and Cocaine Use in the ...

History Faculty Research and Scholarship (1983)

David T Courtwright

One of the many memorable characters in Harper Lee's novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, is an aged morphine addict, Mrs. ...

Public Health and Public Wealth: Social Costs as a Basis ...

History Faculty Research and Scholarship (1980)

David T Courtwright

Historically, the most important rationale for coercive public health measures has been the prevention of disease and injury to others. ...

Drug Wars, Drug Violence, and Drug Addiction in the Americas

Criminal Justice Ethics (2023)

David T. Courtwright

The Opioid Addiction Epidemic Is an 8 on the Richter ...

History News Network (2018)

David T. Courtwright

Of late journalists have been asking me about the history of narcotic addiction in America, the subject of Dark Paradise and Addicts Who ...

Learning from Las Vegas: Addiction, Limbic Capitalism, and Pleasure Meccas

UNLV Gaming Podcasts (2013)

David T. Courtwright

In this Gaming Research Colloquium talk, Courtwright (Presidential Professor, Department of History, University of North Florida) discusses three overlapping features ...