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The Narcotic Farm : The Rise and Fall of America's First Prison for Drug Addicts
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Specifiche dell'oggetto
- Condizione
- ISBN
- 9780810972865
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Abrams, Inc.
ISBN-10
0810972867
ISBN-13
9780810972865
eBay Product ID (ePID)
66173098
Product Key Features
Book Title
Narcotic Farm : the Rise and Fall of America's First Prison for Drug Addicts
Number of Pages
208 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2008
Topic
United States / 20th Century, Substance Abuse & Addictions / Drugs, Psychopathology / Addiction
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Self-Help, Psychology, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
34.1 Oz
Item Length
10.4 in
Item Width
8 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2007-048997
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Edition
22
Grade From
Eighth Grade
Dewey Decimal
365/.667290973
Grade To
College Graduate Student
Synopsis
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 Published to coincide with a documentary to be aired on PBS, The Narcotic Farm includes rare and unpublished photographs, film stills, newspaper and magazine clippings, government documents, as well as interviews, writings, and anecdotes from the prisoners, doctors,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. The Narcotic Farm is a beautiful, fascinating book that takes readers deep into a forgotten American institution. The pictures are remarkable and the story brings an important moment in history vividly to life. It's a stunning work. Dave Isay , founder of StoryCorps The story of America's long and deep affair with addictive drugs is incomplete without mention of the legendary federal narcotic hospital in Lexington, Kentucky. The Narcotic Farm tells this story well, and in addition provides a wealth of revealing photographs and documents that speak volumes on what it was like to be a junkie in the mid-twentieth century. Luc Sante , author of Low Life and Evidence The Narcotic Farm works its magic by recapturing, in images and words, the lost world of "Narco," the sprawling federal prison-hospital for drug addicts in Lexington, Kentucky. It's the details that get you, from the disheveled misery of withdrawal to the uninhibited joy of performing in the house jazz band. David Courtwright , author of Dark Paradise, Addicts Who Survived, and Forces of Habit Everyone who cares about addiction and recovery in this country should look at these pictures and read this text. Susan Cheever , author of My Name is Bill Wilson: His Life and the Creation of Alcoholics Anonymous and Desire: Where Sex Meets Addiction "The 'Narco,' with its combination of prison and hospital, drug experimentation and drug cure, total institution and farm, exemplified the contradictions of American drug policy. The authors are to be commended for their accessible text and high-quality images that vividly convey the history of the Narcotics Farm from the high hopes of its birth to its evolution into a "fraternity for drug addicts."- Eric Schneider - " Smack: Heroin and the American City ," University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008, 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."The Narcotic Farm "is a beautiful, fascinating book that takes readers deep into a forgotten American institution. The pictures are remarkable and the story brings an important moment in history vividly to life. It s a stunning work.Dave Isay, founder of "StoryCorps "The story of America s long and deep affair with addictive drugs is incomplete without mention of the legendary federal narcotic hospital in Lexington, Kentucky. "The Narcotic Farm "tells this story well, and in addition provides a wealth of revealing photographs and documents that speak volumes on what it was like to be a junkie in the mid-twentieth century.Luc Sante, author of "Low Life "and "Evidence The Narcotic Farm "works its magic by recapturing, in images and words, the lost world of Narco, the sprawling federal prison-hospital for drug addicts in Lexington, Kentucky. It s the details that get you, from the disheveled misery of withdrawal to the uninhibited joy of performing in the house jazz band.David Courtwright, author of "Dark Paradise, Addicts Who Survived, "and "Forces of Habit"Everyone who cares about addiction and recovery in this country should look at these pictures and read this text.Susan Cheever, author of "My Name is Bill Wilson: His Life and the Creation of Alcoholics Anonymous "and "Desire: Where Sex Meets Addiction " The 'Narco, ' with its combination of prison and hospital, drug experimentation and drug cure, total institution and farm, exemplified the contradictions of American drug policy. The authors are to be commended for their accessible text and high-quality images that vividly convey the history of the Narcotics Farm from the high hopes of its birth to its evolution into a "fraternity for drug addicts."Eric Schneider - ""Smack: Heroin and the American City,"" University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008"
LC Classification Number
HV5279.U65O57 2008
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