Doctors used to think that only half a dozen narcotics, such as heroin and morphine, could cause a true addiction: the victim could give up the drug without suffering the agonies of withdrawal. They ...

The Federal Medical Center in Lexington has a fairly simple purpose — it’s a facility used to treat seriously ill people who are imprisoned by the federal government. Its intended use when it opened ...

U.S. law says that it is a crime to possess narcotics, and by jailing many of the 20,000 addicts arrested in the U.S. each year, it brands them as criminals. But most doctors and lawyers believe that ...

To know the history of the Fort Worth Narcotic Farm is to know the history of the American West in the mid-20th century. Migration patterns and local economies shaped the way people lived and created ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- A Chicago police program aimed at keeping people addicted to drugs out of jail is being expanded because it's working so well. Donald Davis is a heroin addict, but with the help of ...

Is there any rationale for using oxycontin as a "weaning" medication for narcotic addiction? Are there any studies indicating success rates or failure rates for this approach? First we should review ...

Dr. Benjamin Rush, a signer of the Declaration of Independence and surgeon general of the Continental Army, was one of the pioneers of drug addiction research in the new America. 1784 Pioneer ...

Welding was one of the skilled trades available in the occupational therapy program at the Fort Worth Narcotic Farm. Fort Worth was once home to the only federally funded drug treatment program west ...

THE first teen-age narcotics users in the neighborhood of the Henry Street Settlement on New York‘s Lower East Side were not the newcomers to the area. They belonged to the older families, Irish, ...

Etomidate, recently dubbed the "second propofol," has been added to the list of narcotics. As this general anesthetic, which should be used for therapeutic purposes, began circulating illegally as a ...

People who work in addiction medicine in the 1930s and 2020s still argue community support is the biggest need in recovery. The Federal Medical Center in Lexington has a fairly simple purpose — it’s a ...