“The Narcotic Farm,” a companion film to the book about “Narco” …
The Narcotic Farm, the companion film for the book The Narcotic Farm: The Rise and Fall of America’s First Prison for Drug Addicts (Abrams, $29.95), by Nancy D. Campbell, J.P. Olsen and Luke Walden, will air at 9 p.m. on November 3 on WKLE. KET1 is seen in Lexington on WKLE-TV, Channel 46, which is broadcast on Insight cable channel 12
For addition Kentucky airings of the film, which focuses on Lexington’s former “Narcotic Farm” prison on Leestown Road, go to http://www.itvs.org/shows/broadcast_results.php
Built at the height of the Great Depression for $4 million, “Narco,” a combination prison, rehabilitation center, work program and drug research lab, marked a shift in American thinking about addiction. It provided free, on-demand treatment, called its prisoners “patients” and began an on-site research program into how people become addicted and how drugs work on the brain.
To see my original article on the facility once known in Lexington as “the Narco,” and see a photo slide show, go to:
http://www.kentucky.com/211/story/538870.html
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