Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-01-27

DRUG habit IS SPREADING
Vice on Increase in England-Insre
clients Vary From Choral
TO Alcohol.

English society is becoming serious
" exercised about the habit of taking
drugs, which appears to be spreading
more rapidly than ever, judging from
some of the correspondence which is
appearing on the subject. What was
at one time the vice Of the few is de-
, clared now to be the practise OF
many-worried business men, profess
sional men, Cursed with brain fag,"
jaded society women and all the
other victims Of the killing rush Of
modern life.
A case is narrated in NJ. A. P. CT
hospital nurse who recently applied
for relief at an inebriates' home con-
Tossing that she had not been really
sober-that is to say, more or less I'M
der the influence OF stimulant-for six
years. A spell OF unusually heavy
work had driven her to cocaine. Her
holiday, which ought to have fol-
lowed Immediately, had to be post
poned for some reason connected with
the hospital work, and she continued
taking cocaine until when relief came
at last she found herself unable to
give up her daily allowance of the
drug. Sometimes she took brandy to
relieve her craving for the drug, but
always she returned. AS in every
other case, the gradual lpping away
Of the will power veal ned her eff
forts to break the habit, and in the
end her friends had to tc-e the most
drastic measures to force her into an
inebriates' home Here T. habit was
successfully broken after an agoniz-
ing painful cure"
One woman who led wy busy so
cial life used to take regu srly a mix
true of choral, sal-volati ,, brandy
and soda, while another c ed herself
with mixture of sal-volG e and red
lavender
Another extraordinary case was
heard of recently. Three specialists
had been called in to exar, ne a wom-
an, and though all three creed that
she was suffering from cJerstimula-
ton they were utterly VI Die to dis
cover the cause of her syn oms. The
mystery was not sovled until some
one happened to mention that the
woman kept a bottle of Ilphate of
quinine in her boudoir. s. then con-
fessed that she was simp suffering
from excessive doses OF C.linine.
The stage, literature al / art each
contribute a large number o the vic
tins of the drug and ale iol habits.
Recently once famous artist was
found c1nnnincr on bn nj
having falle nthrough eve y stage of
depravity from occasional Indulgence
in mhorphia to sheer mani for alco-
hol
Many men and women connected
with the stage have fal- n victims
to the craving for stimuli ITS, always
with disastrous results to their pro-
fessional regulations. Ore actress.
for whom the critics had prophecied
a brilliant career, comm oed taking
moIphia durns nei vous crisis. She
was delighted with the immediate ben
fit she derived from the drug, and used
1t again and again. Before she or any
one else had realized what was hap
pening, the unfortunate woman had
DGCOIuC a HUI one HOl
only made no progress in her art, but
her acting was deteriorating rapidly
Before the end came it had become
impossible for her to obtain an en-
gagement. No manager could de-
pend on her coming to the theater,
and when she did put in an appear
ance it was only charitable to de-
scribe her acting as erratic. She be-
came so reckless in her craving for
stimulants that she drank eau de CO.
logne, Florida water or anything else
of an alcoholic nature. In this casae,
at any rate death came as merciful
release.