The Narcotic Farm: The Rise and Fall of America's First Prison for Drug Addicts by J.P. Olsen, Nancy D. Campbell, Luke Walden

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

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

208 pages • first pub 2008 (view editions)

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
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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 cur...

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