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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (May 8, 1963)
Narcotics III hctors Find Mine Out Of Ten Cured' Addicts Go Back On Narcotics Again By HARRY FERGUSON WASHINGTON (UP!) - Curing a person of the drug habit 1 one of the supreme challenges to med ical science. A study of 1,900 per sons released after treatment at the Public Health Service Hos pital at Lexington, Ky., showed that 90 per cent of them went back on drugs again and usually within six monlhs, There are two ways in which an addict can get the treat mcnt at Lexington and the other federal hospital at fort Worth, Tex. If he has been convicted of j a federal offense, the judge can order him to take the cure. Or lie can enter the hospitals volun tarily, provided beds are availa ble, and if he Is able to pay he is charged $9.50 a day. (, v. V) 4 5 i :2 K 'J y L.4 mk :veW5Ta DOUBLE SPRING EVENT raoiciscaji luhitestone wwe piece beginner r 8 DINNERS 8 CUPS 8 SAUCERS) CLOUD NINr UNDECORATED OPEN STOCK VALUE 25.20 7 OECORATED PATTERNS J . set fo I XI OPEN STOCK VALUE C"1C' 11 20 OFF ;;CCL on a" 0Pen stock :llt Sale ends May 11 Remember MOTHER Sunday, May Klamath's Glait, Silvar and Srarlinf Headquarters 522 Main Ph. TU 4-4361 flight from the start the odds are heavily against him being cured. More than one-third of the voluntary patients can't take it, and leave within two weeks. The prisoners, of course, are forced to remain. By the end of the first month one-half of the voluntary patients have given up and de parted, fewer than one-third of them stay as long as the doctors consider necessary. Then one out of ten succeeds in freeing him self of drugs. Treatment consists of a grad- ; ual withdrawal of drugs by giving the patient decreasing doses. Up i until 1945 the patients were given ! injections of morphine. They called this "going to the shooting gallery." Sometime during World War II a synthetic drug called ! methadone was developed in Ger- j many. It bears only a slight chemical relationship to morphine! or heroin and is now used in the public health hospitals. Now the patients say they are going to the cocktail lounge," meaning they are going to drink a small glass of reddish-colored metha done. for a person lightly addicted the withdrawal period can be over in four days, but the heavy ad dict needs between 10 and 12 days. Either way, the patient is deathly ill because all methadone does is flatten out the peaks of pain in an attempt to make life' endurable. After complete withdrawal of drugs there is a convalescence period of two weeks. The patient begins to have an appetite and gains strength, but he will be restless and irritable for several months. Then the treatment shifts from the body to the mind. A narcotics addict usually is listless and indifferent to everything ex cept where he is going to get his next shot. At the Lexington hospital an at tempt is made to get him inter ested in something soft ball, box ing, watching television, bowling, going to the movies, playing in an orchestra, theatricals, or writing for the hospital newspaper called "The Blue Grass Times." The doc tors would like the patient to re main in this drug-free environ ment for at least five months. Then he Is on his own. Bad as the narcotics problem is in the United States today, there was time when it threatened to engulf the nation. Around 1913-14 one American out of every 400 was an addict of some kind. Chi nese immrted into the West Coast as laborers brought their opium pies along, and the habit spread eastward across the nation. Opium was given to Civil War wounded to ease their pain, and hundreds of thousands of addicts were created on the battle fields. There was no law against any opiate drug in the United States, and thousands of persons became addicts by taking patent medi cines heavily loaded with opium. The invention of the hypodermic needle in 1853 made it easy to shoot narcotics straight into the blood stream. Then occurred a tragic medical mistake. In 1898 the Germans be gan the commercial production of heroin, which is an opium deriv ative, and it was hailed as a mir acle drug and recommended as a cure for persons addicted to opium and morphine. Actually heroin is three times as powerful as mor phine. For five years heroin was pumped into persons seeking a cure for drug addiction before an article appearing in the Alabama Medical Journal in 1903 challeng ed the theory that heroin was a cure. By 1914 the devil was loose all across the United States and the underworld had discovered there was a big business in selling adulterated heroin. The result was the first action on the part of thelsion of last year addiction itself! is not a crime. Possession ot nar cotics is punishable by imprison ment for from two to 10 years for a first offender, five years is the mandatory minimum sentence for selling drugs. For subsequent of fenses prison sentences range up to 40 years and a person who federal government the passage of the Harrison Narcotics Act in 1914. It allows the federal govern ment to license drugs for medical purposes and to war against the illegal transportation and sale of narcotics. Under a Supreme Court deci- sells to anybody under 18 years of age can get the death penalty at the discretion of the jury. The result is that addiction is on the decline in the United States, but a new peril has risen and the Federal Narcotics Bureau is helpless to do anything about it. PAGE 10-A HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls, Oregon Weduesday. 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