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

by JP Olsen, Luke Walden, Nancy D. Campbell

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810972867
• ISBN13: 9780810972865
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 2.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 8.0" x 10.4"
• Age Range: 13 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 8 to Postsecondary