The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-12-08

never make out. The couple seemed
happy and had had no quarrel.
ttAnd so / could go on and recite
the details of the whole sixteen sui
eide cases which have come under my
observation, in allTof which morphine
figures as the destructive tt pthsss agent: The
never brought to light and are today
known to but few.
The Use Of the Drugs.
ssMost dope fiends, start by using
cocaine. It is generally snuffed up the
nose, sometimes rubbed on the gums.
It is highly exhilarating for time,
but leaves the user in depressed con-
dition and longing for another dose
grains is about the limit in single
dose. FINAL the .sCoke'' eater gets
to point where morphine is also
craved. Eventually the daily routine
is to snuff cocaine and inject morphine
into the arm. I know OF cases today
where this has been going on ten, or
twelve years, but these parties are fast
approaching the wreck stage. An unin-
territorial overdose, administered with
a desire to get more effect on the sys-
tenn, always ends the history Of each
case Sometimes, when deprived of
morphine for a time, a fend will get
fatal dose in taking the amount which
accommodate. l know of the recent
death ola young colored girl, NOR
phine fend, the result Of taking usual
allowance of morphine after she had
been without it thirty days thru serv
ing workhouse sentence
Poisons Sold Without Question.
|: <frl. oo,,:n. o,d x,o,,h;oo boI,;+o
are most frequently started out Of ig-
norance Of what terrible thing the
taking of these drugs is. There IS not
day but what [ turn down number
of applicants for cocaine and morphine.
1 always size them up, and it they are
not fends, positively IN need Of that for
which they ask, they are refused. am
sorry to say, however, that this is not
true Of all statesmen. In some drug
stores dope is sold without question
to all applicants on order of the prOprie-
tor to his clerks to do SO; the almighty
dollar is thus placed above human hap
piness and even life. Nor is the law
every person purchasing any kind Of
poison to sign special register kept in
each drug store for this purpose, which
entry includes statement Of what the
poison purchased is wanted for.
,"I differ with physicians as rule.
Ill TWO JULIUS IcldGIV0 W -Gl1c USE VI W,
caine and morphine habitually; one is
that cocaine iends in my experience can
cure themselves, and the other is as to
the amount of morphine an individual
can take and live. si IS
Habit Not Incurable.
81 know Of case right here in Min
neapolis, of man who now sells pea
nuts and popcorn on the streets.
1 have sold him cocaine in years gone by
and knew him to have reached the gut
4 ter level Of 'coke' eaters. Today he
I never uses grainsaof dope and is
4 making. an honest tho humble living
! himself. I know of several othel
cases, not by hearsay,. but actual per
sonal observation where coke mel
! have quit the habit for good.
:.EIn regard to the quantity Of NOR
! phine taken by one individual, in spit
: trary, I can bring twenty witnesses i
necessary to prove woman has take1
}, fifteen grains of morphine to the dose
and from three to four doses a day, am
, lived-45 to 60 grains Of morphine
day; enough to kill three ordinary .peo
} PIE. For years this woman had bee
: called attention of friends to tn
woman, when taking her allowance
hence the reason that I have witnesse
/ for my assertion. This woman is still
r living. She now uses cocaine, on he
' gums as we'll as the morphine, which sh
, her to have taken dope for twelv
: years past. Her complexion is sallow
, but otherwise as yet she is not a wreck
' She has, Of course, wonderful consti
tuition, and is an exception; but she
a reality and no fiction.
how Il, 41rA
users to take more than ten grains a
! dose. The coke user, when in nee
! of the stimulant (and they always ar
. when they come into a drug storey
exceedingly nervous. It is seldom
i however, the real Cooke fend does nc
I also use morphine. Then they are tol
n by the dead complexion, the yellowis
I eye ball, and frequently the sunke
e cheeks. And great percentage Of thes
l. unfortunates are women.
J. Dope Habit Growing.
IT believe the dope. habit is grow
ing, altho it is hard to tell. These III
= fortunates are sly, and keep changin
= - their custom from one drug store to a.
o. other, so as not to be recognized as re-
=, ular purchasers and accordingly fiend
: But there is no deceiving a man wi
has had the experience with them tn;
i soon as he or she enters the store.
% "The spreading Of the habit in n
al opinion is not confined to the low
classes Professional men are using c
ID caine more than ever before. Your
girls frequently come into our store +
to morphine. I have reasoned with mai
IS of these girls and tried to tell the
N what terrible risk they were taki1
d. in using morphine.
/: I" I don 1T care was the only rep
= one girl made to me. I was with
n companion one night who took sol
~ morphine tablets, and gave me one.
to found it did away with nervous spe
Id I had and gave me rest when 1 could1
- sleep. I want some more anyway.
Most of these beginners can T
tha mnrnhina habit is until they q