The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-01-09
DRUGS WORK RUIN
IN CITY SOCIETY
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avis and old nails, or even a knife, are
| often called into requisition.
Morphine and cocaine through the
mouth are used more frequently by the
1 people who belong 10 the higher class
/ This can be taken in quiet, uncb-
: served manner and viii not be noticed
! until the effects OF the drug itself be
come apparent.
In other cities cases are reported
/ where the dope fiends have used
many and peculiar methods. such as
| soaking cloth in chIoroform and put
/ ting ii over their faces before going 10
\ bed nights, or eating laudanum but
( none of these methods are at present
used in Salt Lake, according to the best
information available TO the doctors
Z and other authorities.
Effects of the Drugs.
The results of the drug habit are like
those of tobacco and alcoholic drinks
not noticeable at first. On the contra
ry, IL IS harder to perceive that the OBJ
served person has been using any slim
ulant at al, and one is apt 10 attribute
All the Srllliancy and vivacfty of the
, man or woman to his or her own in
nate qualities. After a little dose and
! dose, the lady of the ballroom is more
winning, more fascinating. more brill
liant and more entertaining, tn orator
can speak with an elegance of which he
!
pable. the doctor is surer OF his knife
IN the operating room and the singer
| before the public holds her audience
spellbound- But after the habit grows.
! and after it requires a larger dose to
satisfy the user, the same effects are
not gained. Instead Of being more fas-
clnatnS in the ball room. the dancer
does not care for those pleasures at all.
she loses her beauty. Her cheeks be-
come paIlid and drawn Her eyes.
4 n
Frightened by the drug, become sight
less and dun. Her senses forsahe her
and she no longer hears the sounds of
the passionate violin and the dreamy
is restless and cannot sleep, unless
doped.' Her nerves are all gone or
| dea6ened.
One old woman who was treated at
! the city jail and turned away cured,
With tears in her eyes told the jailer
that for more than five years while she
had been using the stuff she had
never heard the birds sing and had
never enjoyed one single happy laugh.
Now" she said, 4 can hear the rob
ms just the same as 1 could in child
hood"
The most Ioathsome effects come
from the use of the needle. In tboSe
cases the sufferer breaks out with run
ming sores which every day discharge
their huge allowance of pus. The very
flesh becomes rotten and leprosy in it's
worse form could not be more abhOr-
rent
The rapidly with which the bad eff
fecJS are shown upon the users depends
largely upon the nervous temperament
CT the man or woman taking the drug
and the quantity taken, as we'll as the
narcotic used Cocaine has the most
immediate effect not only in its action
upon the system when taken. but in
bringing about the dire results above
mentioned.
Devices to Get dope"
The cost of the morphine. opium and
cocaine leads those who have not the
money with which to purchase it into
The Smith Drug company has made an
iron-bound rule that II viii not sell any
not only because it does not want the
regular patronage to come into contact
the fiendS viii steal anything that they
can get their hands upon i'm order to sell
- t allu oDtdIh hiUIe OF the cope me
police arc well Informed Of the WAYS of
these people and keep close eye upon
them Only last week there was brought
Defore Judge D1ehi man. Raymond Cur
tbs by name. who had stolen "A mangle
rolled from the machine of the Salt Lake
Cleaning company and sold IL for 3 cents
in order to get dope
Begging is another way they have but
as the average person can easily recog-
nize their condition they do not find this
particularly profitable
Cocaine costs about $3.50 an ounce;
morphine. $50 and gum opium. 81 a
pound. An habitual user Will consume
as much thirty forty grains a day.
Speedier Life the Cause.
Dr. w NJ Brown, in commenting on the
increase of the habit. said:
i can account for the great Increase in
the use of the drugs only BY saying that
L LhlnK Il Que TO the pace at which the
people OF the west. including those Of this
city. are going. Years ago everybody took
things more quietly. Now il must be eS-
element No longer is the bov or eirI
to -tf nv he r1af,f =r-
an evening. but he or she must go out
TO parties or have numerous fellows or
girls. and attend these swell dinners
Nulcu we near SO mucu &pout in the
neWsp6 peTs. and which the alleged society
SlrI Always wants 10 attend because she
wants her name 70 appear IN the list OF
those present and because all her set is
there. After she gets in+o the habit OF
these dlaL,ers she cannot stay away. Soon
she acquires the taste for strong drink
while attending these functions. and then
maybe takes 10 smoking cigarettes and
must attend n dance, and. not being phys
icaIly able TO do IT, takes a little NOR
phine or some other drug just to deaden
The pain. and then she gets the habit
What habit il is THAT she is acquiring
she never stops to inquire. nor does she
does she not?
THE business man is almost as foolish
in this respect as his daughter. for he
eats 2 little some day, maybe. for the
toOthache. and as il does rot subsfde in
short time. eats some more until he. !
too is in the tolls A great percentage {
of those who are afflicted are dragged :
into il by physicians J myself think
those cases the most pitiful of al. as it
seems that the poor people are not re-
spOnsible for their condition and suppose
that when they are giving themselves
INTO the hands Of doctor he ought to
know what he IS doing
y recollect the case of a prominent
musician in this town who was at one
time leader of the Tabernacle choir. and
who was thus dOctored. After -he ply 1
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