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

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

 
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Describes the role of America's Narcotic Farm in the drug rehabilitation and treatment of prisoners convicted of narcotics offenses over the course of its forty-year history, from 1935 to 1975, and the scandal over its drug-testing program and experiments using inmates as human guinea pigs that led to its shutdown, in a study that coincides with a PBS documentary.

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Nancy D. Campbell is associate professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Nancy D. Campbell, associate professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, writes about drug policy, science, and culture. She lives in upstate New York. JP Olsen is a filmmaker whose work has appeared on PBS, ABC, CBS, A&E, and The Discovery Channel. Luke Walden is a documentary film cameraman and editor whose most recent credits include a film about UN peacekeeping in war-torn countries. Olsen and Walden live in New York.



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ISBN 10:  1949669246 ISBN 13:  9781949669244
Verlag: The University Press of Kentucky, 2021
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