Narcotic Farm The Rise and Fall of America's First Prison for Drug Addicts

Name: Narcotic Farm The Rise and Fall of America's First Prison for Drug Addicts
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ISBN: 9780810972865

ISBN-10: 0810972867

ISBN-13: 9780810972865

Edition: 2008

Authors: J. P. Olsen, Luke Walden, Nancy D. Campbell

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From 1935 until 1975, just about every junkie busted for dope went to the Narcotic Farm. Equal parts federal prison, treatment center, farm, and research laboratory, the Farm was designed to rehabilitate addicts and help researchers discover a cure for drug addiction. Although it began as a bold and ambitious public works project, and became famous as a rehabilitation center frequented by great jazz musicians among others, the Farm was shut down forty years after it opened amid scandal over its drug-testing program, which involved experiments where inmates were being used as human guinea pigs and rewarded with heroin and cocaine for their efforts. Published to coincide with a documentary to…

Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Abrams
Publication date: 10/1/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 208
Size: 8.00" wide x 10.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 2.134
Language: English



Introduction



A New Deal for the Drug Addict



Competent and Humane



The Two Roads to Narco



The Lexington Cure



The Fantastic Lodge



The Talking Cure



Down on the Farm



Work is Therapy



At Play in the Fields of Narco



The Greatest Band You Never Heard



The Addiction Research Center



The Revolving Door



Bibliography



Index and Credits



Acknowledgments