El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-06-15

ders on hysteria. All this brings about
the use OF opium in various forms
sometimes the victim does not know it
Is opium at ail-and other pOisons. Al
cOhOl Is prominent among these p0isons.
Over use of alcohol Is frequently fol-
lowed by morphine
Two Typical Instances.
Capt. Greet told me of Two stories.
One was the story of a woman. She
had been eminently respectable. emf
nently conventional She was brought
under his observation in the ABODE of
love and lust. Her skin was leadeH. her
eyes had pupils ike pin pCiats. OPP
UNI" he declared. she denied II. IN
the end they found that she had been
drinking a very common medicine that
contained a big percentage of the drug.
She IS now a confirmed dope fiend
and IS still living IN FL PasO.
The other story was that OF an II
PasO business man. He worked hard I;
he worked fast; he became nervous and
then neurasthenic He had begun to
seek relief. off hours, IN drink lie
came to the point where he braeed him
self with cocaine He Is still taking
the drug. which Is now an inevitable
habit
Detective Henderson put 1t this way:
Il don't know why, but there IS more
vice than there used to be, much more.
People 90 swifter. Men and women
from good homes and boys and girls
from good hOmes-spending their MONEY
eXtraTagantlv; they visit resorts. sight
seeing, then take part in the night life.
And some always drift down. When
they start really going swiftly many Of
them come to opium and then to NOR
phine. There are a lot of men and
boys whose families and employers
never dream OF it"
And when I had listened to each Of
these men, who deal with cold facts
every day, 1 asked each this question:
"Opiates allay pain. Isn't living itself
a pain with these people who OverdO
it," Both of them gave the same
answer Each man nodded as he said,
yes"
Swift Life the Cause.
So YOU get the beginning answer
il, why2 They let themselves be
caught in the whirlpool of too swift
life. They suffer the pain which comes
from too much work or too much plea
sure They seek to dull that pain.
There Is another angle to that double
question of how and why. Dope has
got & big hold among the crowds who
thTOng the streets of every city be-
cause, in part, of its increased accessi-
bility. In the secret crusade, these Of
ficers. together with the federal detect
ives, have been waging against the
traffic, that fact mas cropped up con-
stantly. Opiates used to mean opium,
when it came 10 the habit. We had
our army of smokers. Two things
happened in coincidence. The importa-
TON Of opium was prohibited. The
0Nrr 1rnf,1 al
impossible, unless one knew the ropes
At the same time new stepping stone
toward the hyp0dernic needle appeared.
1t was ''fiake"-pOwdered cocaine.
The victim inhales it like snuff. tt Is
milder than an injection; it produces an
effect like opium. and it is cheap. Ten
cents buys a potion.
''FIake" The Beginning.
This "flalze' Is scorned by the old
"d0pe fiend.' lie saws its got no
strength and was made for gTeenhorns,
and he Is right. The beginners use it.
II Is this powdered cocaine which is
the ranks of the haggard out
casts that sleep in lumber piles and
forage for food in garbage cans in the
alleys. Tho white mans opium Joint
exists always IN Juarez, according to
the police.
His end is a certainty. 1t Is a grim
certainty. He uses the drug; he finds
relief from it. Mind YOU, this Is
habit of obtaining pleasure by the re-
lief OF pain. The greater the pain the
greater the pleasure of relief. The more
be uses, the more he needs next time;
The deeper his discomfort when the ef-
feet Of the last potion has died away,
the more profound his Joy when he in
dulges again. So it grows; it must
grow. He becomes nervous, he fails to
look YOU in the eve. The strange nerve
sickness which brings moral decay along
with it has hold Of him. He ceases to
be reliable. lie becomes a liar.
The Common HypOdermle-
The hypodermic syringe IS common
thing: nearly everyone has seen it. We
know the blessings it has brought. But
he misery is something no man knows
until he Is wrecked The drug fiend
sarries it hidden on his person. lie IS
4 nervous, thin. iacklustre eyed indi-
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