The evening world. Newspaper, December 5, 1913, Page 22

NATION IN GRIP ‘OF DEADLY DRUGS ’ | dreda with in the last few montha, ' EXPERT FINDS around oocasionally as the chief means United Staies sie tpeend Only to China in Abuse of Opium Producis, Says Keister. MANY DOCTORS VICTIMS Only 20 Per Cent. of Morphine ! Made Here Used in Legiti- mate Practice. PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 5.—The United } | of Roetom that the vicinity THE BVENING WORLD, 0 new thet existing @tate | fite society one of the treeiing grounds jawe do not apply to It. Its eftects are like thone of morphine And St Is sold #0 openiy in one district of the drug which markets it has become rn aa “heroin wquare.” . Who have increased by sate hever: that they fin remulnily what are known as “entffing | qom of @ diseased tmpulee that Dartier, when the drug is passed | be overcome.’ —_ of entertainment. NOT AN EXOUSR. “The ppectaiiats hit hart at soctal karte pend aglow usages which encourage the use of al-| A Toston ‘encioloy coholic beverages and cigarcttes among men and women aml dubbed Nr y orankennees. WR. OR MRS. DSPEPT GET YOR STOMACH RGHT—PIPE'S DPEPSIN In five minutes! Time it! Nojible waste, it! Nol ie waste, remember the moment Pape's| Diapepsin comes in contact wit! : indigestion, gas, sour- stomach all distress Monte It’s . ishin, nal ness, belching. olan —__— 's Dia. put bad atomachs i: in Pel rercome indiges.|worth of Mates is now eecond to China, and | ti @head of every other country in the World in the use of oplum and the Marcotics derived from |t, according to statement made by Dr. B. C. Kelater, a epecialiat of Roanoke, before a meet- jag of acientints and specialiats at the Rittenhouse Hotel. The menace In 40 Great, tho speaker anid, that there is danger of our “degenerating back to something worse than monkeydom." ~~ Dr. Kelis! efen to his stoners, who are the dele- gates to the yearly meeting of the Soci- éty for tho Study of Alcohol and Other Narcotice. Tho danger of the habit- forming drugs wan growing so great, ho oaid, that the only logical course was to cut them out of the pharma- copoeia entirely and prohibit thelr man- ufacture. The Mpures which the epeaker pre- sented show that 40,000 pounds of eptum are imported into the United States each year. This is fifteen times e@ much as is consumed in Austria, Germany and Italy combined. Seventy- five per cent. of this opium im manu- factured into morphine, Of this quan- tity, according to Dr. Keister, 9 per cemt. is used by the public, while only ‘M2 per cent. finds ite way into legitimate Medical practice. Morphine !s being uged extensively even in cigaretes. MANY VICTIMS OF DRUGS AMONG PHYSICIANS. Americans adiicted to the cocaine habit consume 14,000 ounces of the drug each year. ‘Pwenty-three per cent. of the medical Profession, the epeaker continued, were new victims of the morphine habit. ‘The medical and oriminal of the copatry indicated that a complete abolt- tion of the manufacture uf the hadit- eed Grugs, including alcohol, would homicides by fifty per cent. rel by eixty per cent., and lunacy by thirty-three per it. The toss to medicine, whatever it might be, from the prohibition of morphine, atcohol, ogtum and cocaine, would be worth while in view of the possible benefits. MBROIN, NEW MENACE, 80 FAR EXEMPT IN LAW. Dr. Kelster'e statements gained aded @gnificance throush an address that was delivered immediately afterward by Dr. C. J. Douglas, of Boston, who de soribed the rayages of heroin, which, he eat, was making victims by the hun- dred in his own city. 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