The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1911-05-12
DANGERS OF DEADLY COCAINE
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also lost many of her teeth, as happens
to cocain fends. Apparently nothing
can save her.
In my opinion" writes one of the
workers in the Philadelphia cocaine
campaign, the present generation of
drug habitues is hopeless. If 1 had my
way 1 would put them all in asylums
where l would keep them till they died.
Very few of them ever get cured of the
habit. While under restraint they can
do without their dope; but remove the
restraint and back to it they go, as fast
as they can get it.
l saw the record Of another distress
ing case where the tragedy had been
carried farther 1t was Chicago wo-
man. we'll born, an astist and musician,
who somehow acquired the cocaine
habit, and used to buy the drug from a
Chinaman. When this Chinaman was
tried for selling coke" she testified as
follows: Il went to Kings laundry and
asked for cocaine l would have sold
my soul for the drug, but l had no
money and Hing had no pity. You
bring me money or jewelry, and l give
you COKE he said. l went home. l
mad given Hing my muffler, my pocket
book, my clock, my wedding ring, the
earrings my husband had given me, my
best Sunday dress had stripped my
home of everything I had nothing left
and was dying for cocaine.
Baby was playing on the floor when
l reached home. saw the glitter of a
gold locket and chain about her neck.
1 had scrimped and saved to buy this
trinket to make her happy. 1t was my
only hope. I snatched it from baby's
throat and ran back to the Chinaman
and he gave me cocaine. .
There is a great difference between
cocaine and morphine. The morphine
habit is bad enough, but cocaine is in
finitely worse. The effects Of one dose
of morphine last for many hours, often
for twenty-four; but the effects OF one
dose OF cocaine cease within a single
hour-so another dose must be taken,
and another and another. A man may
take morphine for 20 years or more and
do his work; but the slave TO cocaine
does no work and rarely lives more than
five years. -
Coke fiends' have no desire for
food. They frequently go days without
eating and become gaunt and emaciat-
ed. They pass many nights without
sleeping; in fact they cannot sleep till
they fall into stupor Of utter exhaustin.
Out of this stupor they come back to
consciousness with only one thought
and one fierce desire-to get more CO.
caine; they must get it to relieve their
intolerable suffering and craving, and
they are ready to get it by any possible
means. They will break any law, they
will commit any crime to get this drug
or to get money to buy it. 1t takes a
great deal more money to buy enough
cocaine to satisfy coke fend than it
takes to buy enough alcohol or opium
to satisfy the victims of those habits.
So the cocaine habit has formidable
importance in our cities in that it leads
directly and inevitably to crime. This
is true not only of victims in the under
world and the sporting world, where the
use OF cocaine prevails extensively, but
also in the upper world, the professional
world where it also prevails to disqui-
citing extent.
A Chicago woman, Annie c. Meyers,
once we'll connected socially, in fact
she was one Of the board of managers
of the Columbian exposition, became a
slave to the cocaine habit, and in a re-
markable confession tells of many crimes
she committed in order to obtain the
drug. She tells how she was arrested
in Detroit, Cleveland, St. Louis, Indi-
annapolis, and recently in Chicago for
stealing things in department stores.
She had completely lost her moral sense.
II had been driven to such state
that 1 thought the world against me,
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