It was progressive. It was controversial. It was sometimes unethical. The advancements made at the US Public Service Hospital are often overshadowed by the highly questionable experiments conducted on volunteer inmates... experiments sometimes funded by the CIA as part of Operation MKULTRA. For more, find the air dates for KET’s Narcotic Farm documentary on the KET website. Also check out the Forbes Articles ‘The Narcotic Farm and the Little Known History of America’s First Prison for Drug Addicts’ by Clary Estes. Plus the IRETA article ‘A Look at Treatment History: The Narcotic Farm’