Addiction Treatment: Gone Yesterday, Gone Tomorrow? From: Behavioral Health Management | Date: September 1, 1999| Author: | COPYRIGHT 1999 Medquest Communications, LLC. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

A treatment network existed nearly 100 years ago and disappeared. Why?

For years I have been asking audiences of professionals and laypeople when treatment for addiction to alcohol and other drugs began in the United States. Their responses usually place the origins in the mid-20th century and note such milestones as the founding of Alcoholics Anonymous (1935), the opening of two federal "narcotics farms" in Lexington, Kentucky (1935) and Fort Worth, Texas (1938), the alcoholic halfway house movement (the 1950s), the founding of Synanon (1958), the introduction of methadone ...