The Narcotic Farm is a compelling, fascinating look, in pictures and words, at a penal institution for drug offenders that reminds one of a time in America when corrections meant more than just punishment. Rehabilitation, a sincere attmept to correct anti-social or self destructive illegal behavior, 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

The Narcotic Farm is an odd photo record of candid and staged photos. It's fascinating because it contains works by one of the major figures of the FSA - Arthur Rothstein - who had become embroiled in various controversies about staging, posing and re-enactment. It's a fascinating photo essay lovingly saved from obscurity by JP Olsen, Nancy Campbell and Luke Walden.
- Errol Morris, Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker

 “The Narcotic Farm is a beautiful, fascinating book that takes readers deep into a forgotten American institution. The pictures are remarkable and the story brings an important moment in history vividly to life. It’s a stunning work.”
- Dave Isay, founder of StoryCorps

 “The story of America’s long and deep affair with addictive drugs is incomplete without mention of the legendary federal narcotic hospital in Lexington, Kentucky. The Narcotic Farm tells this story well, and in addition provides a wealth of revealing photographs and documents that speaks volumes about what it was like to be a junkie in the mid-twentieth century.”
- Luc Sante, author of Low Life and Evidence.

The 'Narco,'with its combination of prison and hospital, drug experimentation and drug cure, total institution and farm, exemplified the contradictions of American drug policy. The authors are to be commended for their accessible text and high-quality images that vividly convey the history of the Narcotics Farm from the high hopes of its birth to its evolution into a "fraternity for drug addicts."
- Eric Schneider - "Smack: Heroin and the American City," University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008

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