THE “DOPE” NEEDLE.

Hokitika Guardian, 15 September 1921, Page 3

THE “DOPE” NEEDLE.

„ I (Hy Shaw Ik^nioiuL> , | k * |*\n- each victim «»f 1 •**!« nx» . the war at ha>t twenty uxist tn-day." i- ' one nj‘ tlu* I■-“'i-know n 1 1arlcy->i rcct-. n drtiir told mo th<* othoi* da\. j •■Tlu.* *dopo’ or druo, is increasing y • utmost l)c\und computation, and is l>e- •- <-omint: a direct mnino 1 to society. My (r consulting; room, aro those of is ( my hmthor doctors, is lull ol tho'-r is pool- victims.” i- the ntmiher of is due pri•v niarilv in the opinion of Hatlev-streel [ specialists, to ••war-tiredness/' I Men :ind women of :dl c!;i>se> put ■ forth siv-h tr-inendous effort dunn;-; '* • the (Ire:it AV.'if. losing -o much mental 1 ; ,nd physied mierpv. thil th- inuvitII jilde rractien has cmiii', the run^ultiiu; M room of the nerve and other specialists arc frequented hy crowds of tired and worried men and women who find ' the battle of life too much in their j-resent exhausted condition, and the 1 druo habit is spreading to all classes. ; One of the most fertile causes of the ° drup; *‘< raze” in the opinion of my * ; spot ialisi friend, is w hat he called ‘ . “th*' headache habit.” That is. the acquirement of the hahit ol flyituj to 1 *. various, forms of aspirin or caffeine for 1 heatlaelic. especially hy wnmeti. ‘ | “These drills should always be s}iar--1 1 inoly used,” lie said, ‘‘and for ]>refer- * j ear** only under medical advice. Many of tbe morphinists who come to me have j beoun in this way.** 1 Unfortunately, it seems that business men in in<*rejt**iiijs numbers are beeom,s “dope fiends”. Then 1 is a tempta- ' lion for the overstrained business ms n 1 to-day to spur his jaded nerves and it is a fact that 1 aroe iminhprs of harj rassed and harried financi<»rs are res >rt- & ! ino to dimes to supply the pirns* of ■ healthful food and exei*cise. ! ! j A puncture of the deadly, insidious ’ , needle of the hypodermic syringe with j its poisonous of morphia or . cocaine in solution, ami the miracle is . accomplished of a nervous wreck heino metamorphosed into the brilliant auto--1 inatou of a moment, astonishing bis v I business friends by his insight and • successful imtieipntion. only the next moment to sink hack into the living d<*ath of the “dope fiend” lethargic and exhausted. l \ • hi these days, however, owin<x to recent remarkable discoveries, no Wlope j tiend” u«sml despair. Science at last ! is successfully enpin*; with the now 111 menace to civilisation.