VAST DRUG SCANDAL
ADDICTS ■‘OBLIGED" MANY .ARRESTS MADE Twenty accused persons, including doctors and young drug addicts, several o£ whom are girls, appeared in the dock at Toulouse in connection with a vast drug scandal. Robert. Montagut, aged 27, belonging to a -well-known iamily o£ Toulouse, who had taken to the drug habit, had to be placed in a lunatic asylum, states a message from a Paris correspondent. His family informed the police, and inquiries showed that the young man obtained morphine prescriptions through the well-known doctors Fonvielle and Roger Fotireade. of Toulouse. During months of investigation, no fewer than SS chemists' shops in Toulouse and its neighbourhood wen* visited. It was revealed that eight doctors were in the habit of giving “prescriptions” to drug fiends for cocaine and morphine. A dozen persons, including several women, are being charged with having drugs in their possession, while eight doctors are being prosecuted for their “obliging preserptions.” Dr. Felix Dupin is charged with having delivered 668 such prescriptions. Dr. Paul Garail 660. The case lasted several da>'s.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 570, 24 January 1929, Page 13
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175VAST DRUG SCANDAL Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 570, 24 January 1929, Page 13
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