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Published to coincide with a documentary to be aired on PBS, The Narcotic Farm includes rare and unpublished photographs, film stills, newspaper and magazine clippings, government documents, as well as interviews, writings, and anecdotes from the prisoners, doctors, and guards that trace the Farm's noble rise and tumultuous fall, revealing the compelling story of what really happened inside the prison walls.
Sprache
Verlagsort
Zielgruppe
Für höhere Schule und Studium
Produkt-Hinweis
Fadenheftung
Gewebe-Einband
Illustrationen
Maße
Höhe: 185 mm
Breite: 254 mm
Dicke: 23 mm
Gewicht
ISBN-13
978-1-949669-24-4 (9781949669244)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Nancy D. Campbell, professor of science and technology studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York, is a historian and the author of OD: Naloxone and the Politics of Overdose.
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