Federal Medical Center, Lexington
- Federal Medical Center, Lexington
The Federal Medical Center, Lexington is a federal prison in Lexington, Kentucky housing 1,464 male inmates at high security and 296 female inmates at a low security camp.
History
The site opened on May 15 1935 on convert|1000|acre|km2 under the name "U.S. Narcotics Farm" then changed shortly after to "U.S. Public Health Service Hospital". In 1967 it changed its name again to "National Institute of Mental Health, Clinical Research Center". Its original purpose was to treat people that "voluntarily" were admitted with drug abuse problems and treat them, with mostly experimental treatments; it was the first of its kind in the United States. The convert|1050|acre|km2|sing=on site included a farm and dairy, working on which was considered therapeutic for patients[cite journal|url=http://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/full/159/1/22|title=The Lexington Narcotic Farm|journal=American Journal of Physchiatry|volume=159|issue=22|month=January|year=2002|author=Thomas R. Kosten and David A. Gorelick|pmid=11772684|doi=10.1176/appi.ajp.159.1.22|pages=22] .]Among the research advances made at the Addiction Research Center were the characterization of acute and protracted drug withdrawal syndromes, recognition of Delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) as the active constituent of marijuana, and identification of subtypes of opiate receptors. Treatment advances included methadone to treat heroin withdrawal, opiate antagonist therapy, and recognition of the role of conditioning in drug abuse relapse
In 1974 the institution became a federal prison but maintained a "psychiatric hospital" title until 2 inmates killed another in 1998 with a fire extinguisher and most of those patients were moved to other federal medical centers. [http://infoweb.newsbank.com/iw-search/we/InfoWeb?p_action=doc&p_docid=0EB73578BB907EB7&p_docnum=9&p_queryname=13&p_product=NewsBank&p_theme=aggregated4&p_nbid=K5CB53VHMTE5NTUzOTM4MS40MzY1Nzg6MTo4OnJmLTE3NzQ2]
Housing units are:
*General Population
**Antaeus
**Bluegrass
**Cardinal
**Younity
*Drug Treatment Units
**Veritas
**Mary Todd
*Psych Units
**Commonwealth North and South
*Medical
**Health Care Unit
References
External links
*Federal Bureau of Prisons [http://bop.gov/locations/weekly_report.jsp#bop weekly population report]
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