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.
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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
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