NEJM Interview: Dr. David Courtwright on a 19th-century epidemic of opiate addiction and its lessons for the current crisis.

Nov. 25, 2015

Dr. David Courtwright is a professor of history at the University of North Florida. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Managing Editor of the Journal. D.T. Courtwright. History of Medicine: Preventing and Treating Narcotic Addiction - A Century of Federal Drug Control. N Engl J Med 2015;373:2095-7.