DRUG ADDICTION TREBLED IN NEW YORK.
- - -♦ “Cases of drug addiction treble in New York, according to the figures of the Department of Public Welfare, while alcoholism is little, if at all, reduced,” says the New York World in a leading article. “Millions of dollars are eaten up in ineffectual enforcement and millions in the storage of confiscated liquor.” These are some of the results of a prohibition which is futile and unnatural, while yet being an enormous expense to the country in money and wasted lives. Vote Continuance, ‘and a sane and healthy New Zealand. 15
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Shannon News, 31 October 1922, Page 3
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96DRUG ADDICTION TREBLED IN NEW YORK. Shannon News, 31 October 1922, Page 3
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