The Addiction Research Center (ARC) is a center of addiction research that was founded in 1935. It was originally based in

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, housed on the rural campus of the US Public Health Service Hospital. The ARC shared the campus with the

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; subjects ("volunteers") for the human experimental research were drawn from a pool of felons convicted of drug charges. Dr Harris Isbell was the Director of Research from 1945 until 1963. The ARC became part of the

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in 1974. The ARC clinical research unit and basic science unit were relocated to Baltimore, Maryland in 1979 and 1984, respectively. Research at the ARC is well-documented in two books published in 1978, both of which are available on-line: a book of conference proceedings, and an annotated bibliography.

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Addiction Research Center on NIH.gov
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