Kennedy’s Plan for the Drug Crisis: A Network of ‘Healing Farms’

Although Mr. Kennedy’s embrace of restoration farms could also be novel, the idea stretches again virtually a century. In 1935, the federal government opened the US Narcotic Farm in Lexington, Ky., to analysis and deal with habit. Through the years, residents included Chet Baker and William S. Burroughs (who portrayed the establishment in his novel, “Junkie: Confessions of an Unredeemed Drug Addict”). This system had excessive relapse charges and was tainted by drug experiments on human topics. By 1975, as native remedy facilities started to proliferate across the nation, this system closed.