A follow-up of narcotic addicts: Mortality, relapse and abstinence.

Kentucky residents who were treated for narcotic addiction at the U. S. Public Health Service Hospital, Lexington, Kentucky, between May, 1935 and December, 1959, were followed to determine what happened to them after discharge. Sample size was 266. More than half had died. Of living subjects, more than half were abstinent from narcotics when located.