Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1892-12-17
SHOT AND DOPE.
The Process of Complete
regeneration.
The Subject Supplied
With Free Whisky,
starts in to Bankrupt the lnsti-
tute Just for Fun.
Ne Is Oyartaken by an Awful Retrl-
hutton and Tastes Something
of Discouragement.

Comparatively few persons have ever
seen the interior OF what is vulgarly
Known as a jag institute, that is, a
rare where gentlemen who believe
aa, alcoholism is physical rather
Than mental disease, go for relief. To
,bs rnskilled the mode of treatment
,ariced at all the various institutes
brnded since DR.. Kelley first discov-
.rsl the efficacy OF bi-chloride of
,,ll. is the same. There is no doubt a
difference in the character of medicine
employed, hut the methods of applying
i, are similar.
A REPUBLICAN reporter recently
visited an institute of this kind
and enrolled himself temporarily
IS patient, not because he
MAS in need of treatment, but
because he wished to ascertain how it
hi, to be one. He was not horrible
Example and can not now make an in
r.dous comparison between his pres
.sDt condition and his previous one.
lie met several gentlemen whose
motives for being there were various.
Some wanted relief from the morphine
habit, some were cigarette fiends and
wanted regeneration, but the majority
we're gentlemen who wished to get a
biz lock on alcoholism.
All were anticipative and all had
reason to be, for the treatment had be-
y1n to take effect. They stood about in
shirt sleeves waiting for the man with
the dope" This is a mixture, black
oicolor and disagreeable OF taste, aud
which post graduates say becomes more
80 40 familiarity with it increases, Az
Ter the dope" comes the "shot." The
victim either bares his arm or through
a.it in the sleeve OF the upper arm d
bypOdermic syringe is inserted di-
rec,ly under the skin. An injection OF
,1Oress liquid follows and the syringe
i withdrawn. At the time and for
hours atterward the surface about the
,luclure presents the appearance Of
Scorpion sting and the sensation is
slightly painful.
This is as TAR as the reporters per-
glal experience goes and what follows
ramatter of hearsay.
There is no interference with the pre-.
yious habits of the patient. II he has
been accustomed to drink to excess he
i permitted to continue the habit as
0ng az he can stand it and the liquor is
furnished him free. He enters upon
this feature OF the work of reform with
Hgor. For the first time in his life he
i drinking with the sanction and APP
prevail OF respectable people. He
ttuckles with glee at the possibility OF
ankrupting the anti-jag concern. He
drinks more than he ever did before in
bis life and more than he had ever
imagined he could hold. His course is
viewed with complacency by the insti-
tlte management. It's true that he is
Just now an expensive patient but the
day Of reckoning will come by and by
and before long.
The patients glee over the prospect
Of breaking the anti-jag game will be
repaid with merciless laughter when he
presents an interior view OF
himself. One day the patient imsgines
has been put into the whisky
but he drinks it manfully and with
grimaces. The next day the "gamey"
taste has grown and keeps on growing
until taking a drink is attended by all
the pain and agony OF death. But the
triumph OF the institute management
Is not complete, it remembers the pur-
pose with which the patient began
drinking its free whisky.
Now although the subject drinks no
IOnger that awful taste APPEARS to have
become permanent-a part OF him IRON
which he cannot escape. He imagines
that wherever he goes people smell
what he tastes, and hold him personally
responsible. The work of regeneration
& now in full blast. All this has been
accomplished in week or two during
which time he has been "shot" until
biz arm IS callous and he has been
dOped" until his system is permeated.
The shooting" and the "doping" is
continued week or two longer.
Finally that awful taste begins to abate
and the patient begins to quit the habit
81 standing open mouthed in the breeze
that it may blow in and watt that fear
ll smell away to breed contagion in
he surrounding states and territories.
His regeneration is now complete
though there are certain finishing
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