“…compelling, fascinating … Rehabilitation, we realise while reading this book, has been relegated to the past, and the result has been a crippling increase in the numbers of drug addicts and drug prisoners."
- Richard Stratton, creator of the Showtime series "Street Time" and founder of Prison Life
For more about the history of the Narcotic Farm and addiction research read Discovering Addiction, by Nancy Campbell
For more about the history of women in American discourse on addiction, read Using Women, by Nancy Campbell
For more on the history of addiction research including interviews with scientists and doctors who began their careers at The Narcotic Farm, go to: University of Michigan Substance Abuse Research Center website
More about the Narcotic Farm film's Narrator/Composer Wayne Kramer
Wayne Kramer's website
Former Narcotic Farm inmate William Burroughs reads "The Do-Rights", a poem about the Narcotic Farm
The Man with the Golden Arm, a Frank Sinatra feature film which opens with Sinatra's character returning from the Narcotic Farm
Panic in Needle Park, stunning Life Magazine photo essay about heroin addiction in the early 1960s by Bill Eppridge that became the basis for the Al Pacino film of the same title
National Institute on Drug Abuse website
PBS Frontline documentary, Drug Wars, associate produced by Narcotic Farm produce/director, JP Olsen
"Prisontown" music video by The Malefactors of Great Wealth featuring the Narcotic Farm
Neuroantrhopology blog article featuring video interview about The Narcotic Farm with co-author Nancy Campbell