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

Campbell, Nancy D.; Olsen, James P.; Walden, Luke; Quinones, Sam

 
9781949669244: The Narcotic Farm: The Rise and Fall of America's First Prison for Drug Addicts
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ISBN 10: 1949669246 ISBN 13: 9781949669244
Editorial: The University Press of Kentucky, 2021

Sinopsis

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Published to coincide with a documentary to be aired on PBS, The Narcotic Farm includes rare and unpublished photographs, film stills, newspaper and magazine clippings, government documents, as well as interviews, writings, and anecdotes from the prisoners, doctors,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.

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Acerca del autor

Nancy D. Campbell, professor of science and technology studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York, is a historian and author of OD: Naloxone and the Politics of Overdose.

JP Olsen is a documentary filmmaker, writer, and composer, director of original programming at HBO, and a teacher of journalism at Columbia University. He lives in Brooklyn, New York. Luke Walden is assistant professor of communication arts at Mitchell College in New London, Connecticut, and a documentary filmmaker. He lives in Providence, Rhode Island.

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Editorial
The University Press of Kentucky
Año de publicación
2021
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
1949669246
ISBN 13 
9781949669244
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Número de edición
1
Número de páginas
208
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