The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-20
SELL PROPERTY
To BUY DRUGS
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started treatment yet, but will prob
ably do so in a day or two.
Convert Property Into Drugs.
But there are others who planned
to keep up their supply when the law
was passed. Many converted property.
1t is said even chattel mortgages were
made, so that the money could be
turned into opium, cocaine, heroin or
morphine
And these drug victims, realizing
that there is only one course to take,
are torturlng themselves by 'tapering
off, their daily supply of narcotics.
They are suffering greatly, are prob
looking forward to a future that holds
out only black despair, insanity or the
grave. AS their store of drugs gradu-
ally diminishes, grain by grain, ounce
the Topeka drug fiends get anxious,
worried, yet tenaciously hold to the
futile belief that the craving will
miraculously leave them in a single
night.
One Man Heard the Call.
But there was one man who was
far wiser. For ten nights after he
could no longer obtain morphine, he
did not sleep. He felt himself gradu-
ally growing insane. Then he heard
of the offer of the city commissioners
and Mayor Cofran for free treatment
at the city Jail. He took advantage
of the offer and with resignation set
tied on his face, he began his treat
ment, with little or no hope. Four
times before he had been treated and
four times before he had succumbed
to morphine.
For a day or so he tossed about in
his room in the Jail and a big Irish
man was forced in some instances to
forcibly hold him down. Then he set
Al = II
no longer felt any craving, yet he was
weak and barely able to move. Then
he grew better. Thursday he was re-
leased from Jail, a normal man.
He Tells His Story.
Sitting in DR.. Jeffrey's office this
felt like this for fifteen years, ever
since I started taking morhine. Thank
God for the new law as 1 Will never
again be tempted"
In the clutches of opium and NOR
phine was a Topeka colored woman.
She also took the cure For days
she lay in misery and cursed her fate.
But then the modern treatment began
to take effect While she has not yet
been released from custody, the wom-
an is able to be about, is singing,
cracking jokes, and declares that she
has no more longing for either of the
Next to alcohol says DR.. Alex
ander Lambert, a we'll known author
ity on drugs and their evils, opium is
the most widely used stimulant."
History of Opium.
Opium was used in Egypt in the
early days, in India, in Greece and in
China in an almost prehistoric period.
And the more highly cultivated ana
intelligent a race becomes, the more
nations have long used opium, thus
in India and China, opium, though a
curse from it's excessive use, seems to
be more often used in moderation
without producing the same deleteri-
Gus effects as in other races. This is
not true of all eastern races, because
the Burmese rapidly deteriorate under
it's use. The great majority of NOR
phia addictees are among the educated
classes, according to DR.. Lambert,
especially those who deal continually
with it, as druggists, physicians and
professional nurses, and among these
men predominant.
Compared with alcohol, opium may
be said to be equally degrading, the
authority continues, but it does not
vicious, destructive and abusive beast
that alcohol does.
Use More Than Cinnamon.
A statement was made this morn
ing that the average American con-
sumes more than the average China
man to have the desired effect. The
effect desired by the opium smoker is
not that of slumber filled with fasci-
mating dreams. but a condition of
dreamy wakefulness in which the
mind is lifted out of the petty annoy
ances of life.
Among the ill effects of opium is a
change in disposition. The victims
become irritable, peevish, somnolent
matters; they get a sallow, parchment
like complexion; hair turns gray
early; he becomes indolent in his
clothing, his eye lustreIess and he goes
about shrinking and cringing.
Indulgence in morphine is vice of
recent years; it has taken the place, :
especially in large cities, of the pre-
parations of crude opium. The readi-
ness and cheapness in which morphia
was obtained and the ease with which
hypodermic syringes could be bought,
made this vice a widespread curse.
The hypodernic method is the hardest
to break. The morphine fiend begins
to degenerate and gets lower and low
er, yet at even the low ebb of his ca
reer, at its most degenerate stage, it is
possible to recover.
Loss of Hearing and Taste.
The morphia victim is addicted to
Authorizations of sight, of a loss in
hearing and taste.
The pure cocaine victim is not as
commonly met with as the morphin-
ist The drug is usually taken to
overcome nervousness of an alcoholic
debauch. Cocaine addictees seem to
be most common among the extreme
poor and the very wealthy.
The cocaine victim feels exhilarat-
ed, develops visions of great strength
and vigor, talks freely, enjoys every
thing. Then the climax comes and
passes awas-. Ha1lucinations of voice
the mind begins to wander
and becomes more and more blank.
And it is with these terrible drugs
and the most recent one, heroin, that
Topeka people are facing. There are
victims scattered throughout
the CITY Some have small STOCKS of