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A COSTLY VICE.

• SYDNEY’S “SNOW ’ TRAFFIC. SIXPENCE WORTH COSTS 6s. « That‘drug-taking is on the up-grade in Sydney is the opinion of several detectives, sergeant Roadlb of Darlirigihurst, is constantly engaged in fighting the menace, and he says that it is doing incalculable harm to young giirls and men in the lower walks of life. Defective Robinson, of the Pharmacy Board', is engaged in the same work, and recently ih® made startling disclosures, of the advances which drug-traffic is making. He cited the case- of one woman whose body is a mass of punctures as a result of using the cocaine .needle. Sergieant Roach says that the taking of. this d.rug by injection is not ■nearly so common as the simple? method of inhaling it by sniffing it through the no'?e. A pathetic aspect -of the situation is that young girls ( •often .pick up the fatal habit at 'dances, much in the; way that other girls learn to smoke —from .curiosity, or because they' are goaded to. take a “sniff” by‘ other girls or. by young men. He found bn a doorstep in King’.; Cross a’ few days ago a matchbox containing Ift or 12 tiny packets of the potqnt white powder. Each packet contains about three grain of c.ocaihe, and, according to Sergeant Roach, these are soldi by the drug trafficker at 6s each, although the actual value o.f the cocaine they contain would about ’sixpence. A drug addict would require tWee or four such packets a night to give him “satisfaction,” but a single packet would be more than enough to “dope” a healthy man or woman.

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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXX, Issue 5372, 9 January 1929, Page 3

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A COSTLY VICE. Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXX, Issue 5372, 9 January 1929, Page 3

A COSTLY VICE. Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXX, Issue 5372, 9 January 1929, Page 3

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