Search results

• 2023

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

  Courtwright, D. T., Feb 2023, In: Criminal Justice Ethics. 42, 1, p. 64-75 12 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  File

• How progressive was prohibition? Commentary on Smashing the Liquor Machine, the Francesco Guicciardini Prize Forum

  Courtwright, D. T., Jan 1 2023, In: Cambridge Review of International Affairs. 36, 6, p. 788-792 5 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  File
• 2018

  The Opioid Addiction Epidemic Is an 8 on the Richter Scale

  Courtwright, D. T., Jun 3 2018, History News Network.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article

• 2016

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

  Courtwright, D. T., Dec 1 2016, In: The American Historical Review. 121, 5, p. 1688–1689

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review › peer-review

• Review of Gendered Drugs and Medicine: Historical and Socio-cultural Perspectives ed. by Teresa Ortiz-Goméz, María Jesús Santesmases

  Courtwright, D. T., 2016, In: Bulletin of the History of Medicine. 90, 3, p. 565-566

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review › peer-review
• 2015

  Book Review: Maguire and Ritter, Thai Stick: Surfers, Scammers, and the Untold Story of the Marijuana Trade

  Courtwright, D. T., Aug 1 2015, In: Pacific Historical Review. 84, 3, p. 400-401

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review › peer-review

• Preventing and Treating Narcotic Addiction — A Century of Federal Drug Control

  Courtwright, D. T., Nov 26 2015, In: New England Journal of Medicine. 373, 22, p. 2095-2097

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• The Cycles of American Drug Policy

  Courtwright, D. T., Aug 1 2015, In: The American Historian.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

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• The Prescription Opioid and Heroin Crisis: A Public Health Approach to an Epidemic of Addiction

  Kolodny, A., Courtwright, D. T., Hwang, C. S., Kreiner, P., Eadie, J. L., Clark, T. W. & Alexander, G. C., Mar 18 2015, In: Annual Review of Public Health. 36, p. 559-574

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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

  Courtwright, D. T., Feb 1 2015, In: Social History of Medicine. 28, 1, p. 221–223

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
• 2014

  Forward: Drug Use and Prohibition--Three Reform Traditions

  Courtwright, D. T., Aug 1 2014, Prohibition, Religious Freedom, and Human Rights: Regulating Traditional Drug Use. Labate, B. C. & Cavnar, C. (eds.). Heidelberg, Vol. 9783642409578. p. v-viii 4 p.

  Research output: Chapter or Contribution to Book › Foreword/Preface/Postscript

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

  Courtwright, D. T., Jun 1 2014, (University of Nevada Las Vegas Center for Gaming Research Occasional Paper Series; no. 26).

  Research output: Working paper › Discussion paper

  Open Access

  File

• The NIDA brain disease paradigm: History, resistance, and spinoffs

  Courtwright, D. T., Dec 9 2014, Expanding Addiction: Critical Essays. p. 62-69 8 p.

  Research output: Chapter or Contribution to Book › Chapter › peer-review
• 2013

  Addicts who survived: An oral history of narcotic use in America before 1965

  Courtwright, D., Joseph, H., Des Jarlais, D. & Brown, C., 2013, University of Tennessee Press. 416 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

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

  Courtwright, D. T., May 9 2013

  Research output: Non-textual format › Blog / Podcast

  Open Access

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• Morality, Public Policy, and Partisan Politics in American History: An Introduction

  Courtwright, D. T., Dec 17 2013, In: Journal of Policy History. 25, 1, p. 1-11 11 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• The Opium Problem: A Review Essay

  Courtwright, D. T., Apr 3 2013, In: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences. 68

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• 2012

  Addiction and the Science of History

  Courtwright, D. T., Mar 2012, In: Addiction (Abingdon, England). 107, 3, p. 486-492 7 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

• A Short History of Drug Policy or Why We Make War on Some Drugs but not on Others

  Courtwright, D. T., Oct 1 2012, LSE Ideas Special Reports, p. 17-24.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article

  Open Access

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• Una breve historia de políticas sobre drogas, o por qué declaramos la guerra a unas drogas y no a otras

  Courtwright, D. T., Oct 1 2012, LSE Ideas Informes Especiales, p. 18-26.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article

  Open Access

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• 2011

  David F. Musto (1936-2010).

  Courtwright, D. T., Jun 2011, In: Addiction (Abingdon, England). 106, 6, p. 1188-1189 2 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Language-Use Disorder: Comment on DSM-V's Proposed 'Addiction and Related Disorders' and Charles O'Brien's 'Addiction and Dependence in DSM-V'

  Courtwright, D. T., May 2011, In: Addiction (Abingdon, England). 106, 5, p. 878-879 2 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Commentary/debate › peer-review

  Open Access

• Modernity and Anti-modernity: Drug Policy and Political Culture in the United States and Europe in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

  Courtwright, D. T. & Hickman, T. A., 2011, Drugs and Culture: Knowledge, Consumption and Policy. Hunt, G. & Milhet, M. (eds.). London, p. 213-224 12 p.

  Research output: Chapter or Contribution to Book › Chapter › peer-review

  Open Access
• 2010

  Commentary on Hall (2010): The Difference a Word Makes - A Short History of 'Prohibition'

  Courtwright, D. T., Jul 2010, In: Addiction (Abingdon, England). 105, 7, p. 1174-1175 2 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Commentary/debate › peer-review

• NIDA, this is your life.

  Courtwright, D. T., Feb 1 2010, In: Drug and Alcohol Dependence. 107, 1, p. 116-118 3 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• The NIDA Brain Disease Paradigm: History, Resistance and Spinoffs

  Courtwright, D. T., Apr 6 2010, In: BioSocieties. 5, p. 137–147

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

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• 2008

  Erratum: Gender Imbalances in History

  Translated title of the contribution: Causes, Consequences and Social Adjustment Courtwright, D. T., 2008, In: Reproductive BioMedicine Online. 17, SUPPL. 3, p. 67 1 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Commentary/debate › peer-review

• Gender Imbalances in History: Causes, Consequences and Social Adjustment

  Courtwright, D. T., Mar 2008, In: Reproductive BioMedicine Online. 16, SUPPL. 1, p. 32-40 9 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
• 2007

  The Rise and Fall and Rise of Cocaine in the United States

  Courtwright, D. T., 2007, Consuming Habits: Global and Historical Perspectives on How Cultures Define Drugs. Goodman, J., Sherratt, A. & Lovejoy, P. E. (eds.). 2nd ed. London: Taylor & Francis, p. 215-237 23 p.

  Research output: Chapter or Contribution to Book › Chapter › peer-review

  Open Access
• 2005

  'Carry on Smoking': Public Relations and Advertising Strategies of American and British Tobacco Companies since 1950

  Courtwright, D. T., Jul 2005, In: Business History. 47, 3, p. 421-433 12 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Mr. ATOD’s Wild Ride: What Do Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drugs Have in Common?

  Courtwright, D. T., 2005, In: The Social History of Alcohol and Drugs. 20, 1, p. 105-140 36 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

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• 2004

  Drug wars: policy hots and historical cools.

  Courtwright, D. T., 2004, In: Bulletin of the History of Medicine. 78, 2, p. 440-450 11 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• The Controlled Substances Act: How a "Big Tent" Reform Became a Punitive Drug Law

  Courtwright, D. T., Oct 5 2004, In: Drug and Alcohol Dependence. 76, 1, p. 9-15 7 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
• 2003

  Public Health and Drugs: Why is Policy so Persistently Irrational?

  Courtwright, D. T., Jun 2003, In: Addiction (Abingdon, England). 98, 6, p. 717 1 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Commentary/debate › peer-review

  Open Access
• 2002

  Asking for Trouble:Gender and Violence in City and Suburb

  Courtwright, D. T., Jul 2002, In: Journal of Urban History. 28, 5, p. 629-636 8 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review
• 1999

  Medicine's problem children: tobacco, alcohol, and amphetamines.

  Courtwright, D. T., Dec 1999, In: Transactions & Studies of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia. 21, p. 59-86 28 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
• 1998

  Comments on 'The Moral Economies of Homeless Heroin Addicts: Confronting Ethnography, HIV Risk, and Everyday Violence in San Francisco Shooting Encampments,' by Phillippe Bourgois

  Courtwright, D. T., 1998, In: Substance Use and Misuse. 33, 11, p. 2353-2355 3 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Commentary/debate › peer-review
• 1997

  Morality, Religion, and Drug Use

  Courtwright, D. T., 1997, Morality and Health. Brandt, A. M. & Rozin, P. (eds.). New York, p. 231-250 20 p.

  Research output: Chapter or Contribution to Book › Chapter › peer-review

• The Prepared Mind: Marie Nyswander, Methadone Maintenance, and the Metabolic Theory of Addiction

  Courtwright, D. T., Mar 1997, In: Addiction (Abingdon, England). 92, 3, p. 257-265 10 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review
• 1996

  Comments on “Harm Reduction and Decriminalization in the United States: A Personal Perspective,” by Robert L. DuPont

  Courtwright, D. T., 1996, In: Substance Use and Misuse. 31, 14, p. 1955-1958 4 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review › peer-review

• La salud pública y el patrimonio público: los costos sociales como base de las políticas de salud restrictivas.

  Translated title of the contribution: Public health and public wealth: social costs as a basis for restrictive policies. 1980.Courtwright, D. T., Jul 1996, In: Salud pública de México. 38, 4, p. 294-304 11 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
• 1995

  The prozac controversy

  Courtwright, D. T., 1995, In: Substance Use and Misuse. 30, 5, p. 633-635 3 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
• 1993

  The World According to Kleiman

  Courtwright, D. T., 1993, In: Substance Use and Misuse. 28, 10, p. 1039-1042 4 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
• 1991

  Disease, Death, and Disorder on the American Frontier

  Courtwright, D. T., Oct 1991, In: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences. 46, 4, p. 457-492 36 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Drug Legalization, the Drug War, and Drug Treatment in Historical Perspective

  Courtwright, D. T., Oct 1991, In: Journal of Policy History. 3, 4, p. 42-63 22 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• The cocaine empire

  Courtwright, D. T., 1991, In: Substance Use and Misuse. 26, 4, p. 487-490 4 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review

• The economics of drug dealing

  Courtwright, D. T., Reuter, P., MacCoun, R. & Murphy, P., 1991, In: Substance Use and Misuse. 26, 8, p. 911-912 2 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review

• The transition from opium smoking to heroin injection in the United States

  Des Jarlais, D. C., Courtwright, D. T. & Joseph, H., 1991, In: AIDS and Public Policy Journal. 6, 2, p. 88-90 3 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
• 1990

  The neglect of female children and childhood sex ratios in nineteenth-century america: A review of the evidence

  Courtwright, D. T., Jul 1990, In: Journal of Family History. 15, 3, p. 313-323 11 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
• 1986

  Charles terry, the opium problem, and american narcotic policy

  Courtwright, D. T., Jul 1986, In: Journal of Drug Issues. 16, 3, p. 421-434 14 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review