Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1912-06-29
CHLORAL FIENDS FIND
SUBSTITUTE FOR THAT dope"

ed the emptied varonal bottle would
be found When the "fend" works up
the doses from sixteen to. say, thirty
or forty grains, as most of them do.
there ensues acute depression, black
gloom that suggests suicide almost
lmperatlvely
extent as do the other "dopes." The
Ether and chloroform "drunkards"
habits are less seductive. save as the
exist Dumerously, but not to such an
senses are more completely lulled. Its
victims do not Tong enjoy their secret
addiction to this form of obtaining
surcease of physical pain or mental
worry or dependency. OF all the
drug habits these perhaps prove fatal
within the shortest period.
Another easily obtained drug Is par.
aldehyde. Against this the indictment
of the medical men and sociological
students Is not so severe. Doctors
use II for fixing up "drunkards' !"
nerves, carrying them over the acute
stages. II doesn't appeal popularity
because II Is a most wretchedly tast
ing and smelling stuff. 1t makes the
Chicago stockyards seem in compari
son like blooming rose. Habitually
used II Is as harmful as any of the
other forms though its action Is slow.
er. less apparent and more insidious.
The "Snuffers."
The largest colony of dope fends"
in all the cities Is to be found in that
constantly growing group classified as
the "snuffers." who range in age from
A.. % ~ ~
slums. The SNUFF dope" appeals to
the poor, the wretched, the despond.
ent and nervous "down and outs" be.
cause It is cheap. A little snuff dope
obtainable for the price of glass of
beer goes long way.
The list of these powders for inhal.
| ing Is a long one, but heroin, andrena.
| lin, auephin and superahaline head
| the group In popularity. Herein Is the
most widely known and among the
most easily obtainable. Its base Is
opium and its effects are very similar
TO morphine, but the victim finds the
habit harder to break. Fifty per cent.
of the girls of the underworld, It has
been estimated, are addicted to its
use. There is a drug store on the
Bowery and several in Sixth avenue
where unfortunates appear two OF
three times during night for a
sniff" of this favorite nepenthe. They
will enter with rowing eyes, hands un
steady, faces waXen white, take up tho
| little white packet of powder with pit
iful eagerncss and retire to tele
phone booth and indulge in long inha
lations through mouth and nostrils
The effect Is instantaneous and Is per
fectly apparent when the young won
an energies from the booth. Her dis
traught look is replaced by smile
her glance has become steady, hel
hands do not shake, her dragging wall
has gone - for the time being.
Protect the Weaklings.
"Of course" said DIR. Gregory, "oul
most usual cases here are alcoholics
but the laws against the sale o
dope drugs have in no way diminish
ed the number of such cases. We SCI
only small percentage OF the vic
tins here, yet they are numerous. Th'
majority of the cases of drug fiends,
| presume, really do not reach thu
asylums for the insane, but they g
down to wretched death just the SAM
-- bereft, as a rule of every qualit!
that may have made them worthy am
attractive when they began life. o
course II Is Weddings who most cas-
lily fall victims to drug habits, crea
lures who vince at the slightest pail
/, and cover before the least Of grief
Too panic.stricken by the suffering o
the moment to count the cost, the
: turn to the false comfort of drugs
The laws cannot be too strict that air
to protect those who through lack O
. character. through inherent nervou
weaknesses. are unable to protcC
themselves"