Holly M Karibo

Rehab on the Range

A History of Addiction and Incarceration in the American West

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Produktbeschreibung

The first study of the Fort Worth Narcotic Farm, an institution that played a critical role in fusing the War on Drugs, mass incarceration, and public health in the American West.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Univ of Chicago Behalf of University of Texas
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. November 2024
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781477330340
• ISBN-10: 1477330348
• Artikelnr.: 69927510

Autorenporträt

Holly M. Karibo is an associate professor of history at Oklahoma State University. She is the author of Sin City North: Sex, Drugs, and Citizenship in the Detroit-Windsor Borderland and the coeditor of Border Policing: A History of Enforcement and Evasion in North America.

Inhaltsangabe

* List of Illustrations
* Introduction
* 1. “A Beautiful Place of Fresh Air and Sunlight”? Early Federal Drug
Laws and Addiction Treatment in the West
* 2. “A Prison Is Not the Proper Place for These People”: Federal
Incarceration and the Narcotic Farm Model
* 3. From Bald Prairies to Barbed Fences: Bringing the Narcotic Farm to
Fruition
* 4. The Long Road to Texas: Re-creating Case Histories among Early
Patients
* 5. A Troubled Home on the Range: The Narcotic Farm in the Postwar
Environment
* 6. Relapse: The 1960s, Drug Policy, and the Death Knell of the
Narcotic Farm Model
* Conclusion
* Acknowledgments
* Notes
* Index