The United States public law designated the construction of the narcotic dependent treatment facilities, which became known as the United States Public Health Service Hospitals, with the first infirmary opening in 1935 at Lexington, Kentucky, while the second infirmary opened in 1938 at Fort Worth, Texas.

13645 legislation was passed by the U.S. 70th Congressional session and enacted into law by President Calvin Coolidge on January 19, 1929.

[3] By 1975, the two narcotic farm establishments had been abrogated as a national anti-narcotic treatment program in the rural United States.

The narcotic farm concept was abandoned due to advancement in medication treatment along with United States legislative policies regarding narcotic sedative dependence.

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