The Pulitzer Center's support for this reporting was made possible through the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF).
This reporting project involves an examination of an addiction treatment center in Italy that Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has said he'd like to replicate in the United States.
Residents and staff at San Patrignano describe their experiences with the program, one of the largest and oldest "therapeutic community" addiction treatment programs in the world.
The reporting contains expert scrutiny of the program's vocational and farming model and the controversial ideas behind some of its treatment methods.
There will also be a review of the past scandal at San Patrignano and some of the history—and scandals—involving therapeutic community addiction treatment programs in the United States.
