"...a fascinating photo essay lovingly saved from obscurity..."
- Errol Morris, Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker

Featuring more than 150 rare images and accompanying text, The Narcotic Farm: The Rise and Fall of America’s First Prison for Drug Addicts vividly documents the history of this federal prison set up to find a cure for addiction.  Published by Abrams in 2008.

“Everyone who cares about addiction and recovery in this country should look at these pictures and read this book.”
- Susan Cheever, author of My Name Is Bill Wilson: His Life and the Creation of Alcoholics Anonymous

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"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