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Prof. David Courtwright Recounts History of Opioid Epidemics in Trial against Makers, Distributors Historians in the News Physicians ignored century-old lessons learned during America’s post-Civil War opioid crisis by overprescribing powerful opioid drugs in the 1990s and 2000s, a medical historian testified Wednesday in Central Islip. University of North Florida professor emeritus David Courtwright, an expert in the history of drug use and drug policy, was the first of what could be hundreds of witnesses called in the landmark lawsuit filed by Nassau, Suffolk and New York Attorney General Letitia James against opioid manufacturers and distributors. Courtwright said the narcotic conservatism that prevented widespread addiction from prescription opioids from the turn of the 20th century until the 1980s had crumbled by the 90s, fueling the opioid epidemic that has killed thousands of Long Island residents in recent years.

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