Dr. David T. Courtwright promoveerde aan de Rice University in Houston, Texas, Verenigde Staten en is bekend vanwege zijn publicaties over drugsgebruik en drugsbeleid in Amerikaanse en wereldgeschiedenis, zoals Dark Paradise: A History of Opiate Addiction in America (2001) en Forces of Habit: Drugs and the Making of the Modern World (2001). In 2010 bracht hij No Right Turn: Conservative Politics in a Liberal America uit over de cultuuroorlog die sinds de jaren '60 de Amerikaanse politiek opschudt.

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Dr. David T. Courtwright received his Ph.D. from Rice University in, Houston, Texas, USA. He and is known for his publications on drug use and drug policy in the American as well as world history, notably like Dark Paradise: A History of Opiate Addiction in America (2001) and Forces of Habit: Drugs and the Making of the Modern World (20021). He currently teaches these subjects at the the history at the University of North Florida, where he is Presidential Professor. Other topics of research include the special problems of frontier environments, both on the land in the air. In 2010 he released his published book No Right Turn: Conservative Politics in a Liberal America, a book about the culture war that has roiled disturbed American politics since the 1960's.