Although Mr. Kennedy’s embrace of recovery farms may be new, the concept goes back nearly a century. In 1935, the government opened Drug farm in the United States in LexingtonKentucky, for addiction research and treatment. Over the years, residents included Chet Baker and william s. Burroughs (who portrayed the institution in his novel The Addict: Confessions of a Disloyal Drug Addict). The program had high relapse rates and was tainted by drug experiments on humans. By 1975, as local treatment centers began to spread across the country, the program was closed.
In America, Therapeutic communities Addiction treatment has become popular in The sixties And the seventies. Some, like Synanonbecame notorious for its abusive, cult-like environments. Maybe there is now 3000 worldwideresearchers estimate, including one that Mr. Kennedy also praised – san patrignano, An Italian centered program is a highly regarded bakery staffed by residents.
“If we go the route of large, government-funded therapeutic communities, I would like to see some oversight to make sure they are up to modern standards,” said Dr. Thabet, who is now president of the Foundation for Drug Policy Solutions. . “We must also get rid of the false dichotomy between these approaches and medications, because we know they can work together for some people.”
If Mr. Kennedy is confirmed, his authority to establish treatment farms will be uncertain. Building federal processing farms in “underserved rural areas,” as he said in his documentary, likely on public land, would face political and legal barriers. Completely Legalization and taxation of cannabis Paying for the farms would require action by Congress.
In the documentary’s closing moments, Mr. Kennedy cited Carl Jung, the Swiss psychiatrist whose views on spirituality influenced Alcoholics Anonymous. He said that Dr. Young felt that “people who believed in God got better faster and that their recovery was more lasting and lasting than people who did not believe in God.”
