The HORRIFYING Life of a Patient at Kentucky's Narcotic Farm

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Tonight, we step behind the spotless walls of America’s great experiment in rehabilitation — the Narcotic Farm. Opened with promises of science, compassion, and reform, it became something quieter and stranger: a world where healing blurred into observation, and good intentions hardened into control. This is not a story of cruelty, but of conviction — how a place built to cure became a mirror for everything it misunderstood about mercy.

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