Addiction Research Center

Addiction Research Center

The Addiction Research Center is an unprecedented center of addiction research that was founded in 1948. It was originally based in Lexington, Kentucky, housed on the rural campus of a prison-hospital called Narco, and run jointly with the Federal Bureau of Prisons. [http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/abstract/112579635/ABSTRACT?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0] It became part of the National Institute on Drug Abuse in 1974. It was relocated to Baltimore in 1979. [ [http://www.nida.nih.gov/nida_notes/NNVol10N6/ARCHistory.html History of the Addiction Research Center ] ]

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