An Abandoned Mansion In NYC Raises Questions

Adapting the Island for Drug Treatment

Obviously, throwing a recently clean drug addict back into the general population doesn’t really do much to help their plight to stay sober. Eventually, Riverside Hospital realized this and decided the best option for drug-treatment was to keep patients on the island for no less than 90 days.

They ended transforming the buildings to suit these juvenile drug addicts. The services building was turned into a school, the nurses’ house became girls’ dorms and the original children’s ward, which was located next to the tuberculosis pavilion, was turned into a library and annex to the school.