The Addiction Research Center (ARC) is a center of addiction research that was founded in 1935. It was originally based in Lexington, Kentucky, United States, housed on the rural campus of the US Public Health Service Hospital. The ARC shared the campus with the Federal Bureau of Prisons; subjects ("volunteers") for the human experimental research were drawn from a pool of felons convicted of drug charges.[1] Dr Harris Isbell was the Director of Research from 1945 until 1963. The ARC became part of the National Institute on Drug Abuse in 1974. The ARC clinical research unit and basic science unit were relocated to Baltimore, Maryland in 1979 and 1984, respectively.[2]
Research at the ARC is well-documented in two books published in 1978, both of which are available on-line: a book of conference proceedings,[3] and an annotated bibliography. [4]
References
edit- ^ Campbell, Nancy D. (2006). ""A new deal for the drug addict": the Addiction Research Center, Lexington, Kentucky". Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences. 42 (2): 135–157. doi:10.1002/jhbs.20167. ISSN 0022-5061. PMID 16586455.
- ^ "History of the Addiction Research Center". National Institute on Drug Abuse. December 1, 1995.
- ^ Martin WR, Isbell H, eds. (1978). Drug Addiction and the US Public Health Service. DHEW publication ; no. (ADM) 77-434. National Institute of Drug Abuse.
- ^ Annotated Bibliography of Papers From the Addiction Research Center 1935-1975 (PDF). National Institute of Drug Abuse. 1978.
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