WORSE THAN ALCOHOL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 1907, 21 April 1885, Page 2

WORSE THAN ALCOHOL.

Mr Percy Grey, in the Februaiy number of the National Review, lifts up his voice against the orusade which has been so successful against the use of stimulants. What he says is worth some consideration. He argues that there is an instinct in human nature which craves a stimulant, a craving which shows itself in all races and climes, and which adapts itself to the production of every region. Hence, he declares that closing public houses and prohibiting alcohol will only, drive men and women to the use of narcotics, Men will never be contented with water, milk, and unfermonted liqjuors, and the. juice of fruits, If deprived of alcohol, they will seek opium, which shows itself eveiywhere in the increased and increasing usejKf tobacco, or in excessive quantities ofm and coffee drinking. But opium is the great danger; once used instead of intoxi- • eating liquors,..and., its"tenacity is far stronger, its effects more deadly and terrible. Women can use it with out detection, and men without reprobation. This matter is one which is a secret trouble to all physicians in large practice, thifeli seldom more than darkly hinted atjfut it is known that "narcotism," as it in called, is a deadly and increasing ,sooial evil, which has' brought ruin and death •an many. Part of this"hasb?en brought about by the discoVeiy ofantestlietics, and their extended use iii surgefy, and Borne who know the facts have gone so far as to question the aotual value 'which can - be claimed for their influence on mankind. •'Debasing,demoralising, anddenaturing" were the words in which Dr Lawson, himself a victim to its effects, warned tho world against the use of morphia, and well he might, for the fatal drug brought him to tho gallows. It was not long sinco that tho Lancet -drew attention to tho increase in cases of melancholia, and it "may wejl be that numbers of these aro duo to tho employment of sedatives, which, when the\r effect ia gone by, leave their victim moro depressed than even. Surely the case is that of a man "af gwth and takotli to him seven apfrj more wioked than himself, and they enti ' in and dwell there, and tho last state of that man is worse than than the first."

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