In most drunkards there still seems to be some spark of manhood left, still something to which we can appeal, still some hope of reformation. Alcohol is not often used for suicidal purposes. The drunkard neglects wife and children, pawns their clothes for drink, beats, and on occasion murders them. The drunkard is aggressive, quarrelsome and ready to fight. The drunkard becomes befuddled and loses all the money he has on his person, or grows generous and gives it away, or wastes his substance in riotous living.
Alcoholism tends to beggary, and nearly all beggars, thieves and tramps are given to drink.
Of the million of regular users of opium all become slaves to the opium habit. A few Chinese, who only smoke occasionally, in transacting business or on meeting a friend, claim that they can smoke or not just as they choose, but no one who smokes daily, be the amount ever so small, makes any such claim. The habit is certain and the confirmation thereof sure. The habit is formed quickly. 4 and 5.