Just before Christmas 1951, Dr. Ralph Russell voluntarily checked himself into the Fort Worth Narcotic Farm to receive treatment for drug addiction. He would spend the next four months receiving ...

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 ...

Undated photo of the Narcotic Farm, which was built in an institutional, Art Deco style. The central interior tower stands as a “temple” of rehabilitation. Photos from a newly published book, “The ...

A man who spent 10 years of his life educating the public about drug addiction while working at the Narcotic Farm in Lexington has made it his life’s mission to preserve the history that took place ...

Busy as beavers these days are Josephine Roche, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in charge of the U. S. Public Health Service, and her surgeon general, Thomas Parran Jr. They have the sanitation of ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Unfortunately for the screenwriters in Judd Apatow’s shop, the United States Narcotic ...

Dr. Herbert Kleber, the subject of today’s Google Doodle, and one of the founding fathers of modern addiction treatment, never wanted to work with addicts. As a young psychiatrist, fresh off his ...

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 ...

Editor’s Note: As Lexington celebrates the 250th anniversary of its founding, the Herald-Leader and kentucky.com each day throughout 2025 will share interesting facts about our hometown. Compiled by ...