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DESCRIPTION:The Narcotic Farm and the Shift in Addiction Treatment Research
 \n\nFrom the 1930s to the 1970s\, the “Narcotic Farm” in Lexington\, K
 entucky—a unique hybrid of hospital and prison operated by the U.S. Publ
 ic Health Service—stood at the forefront of drug addiction treatment and
  research. Historians often attribute the institution’s decline to the l
 ack of aftercare for patients returning to their communities.\n\nThis pres
 entation offers a more nuanced perspective\, focusing on the late 1960s sh
 ift from centralized to community-based addiction treatment. As countercul
 tural communes increasingly became sites of research and treatment\, they 
 paradoxically discouraged the reciprocal relationships between patients an
 d researchers that had once defined the Narcotic Farm.\n\nBy reexamining t
 his pivotal transition\, the talk will shed light on the historical signif
 icance of deinstitutionalization in addiction treatment research and explo
 re how the history of medicine can inform contemporary bioethics education
 .
GEO:42.336756;-71.101263
LOCATION:Boston Campus\, White 301
SUMMARY:Addiction Research Shift
URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.mcphs.edu/event/shift-in-addiction-treatment-r
 esearch
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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