The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-07-09

"HtHcu' 'Iioulu De douDle strength nut
| the docs nowadays amt what they used
to be. / gotta have it every night at 9
or else my head won't sleep. It's all
right. | amt the kind what likes it;
gotta have it. | never was no snow drift
| err"
So the young doctor in the offices of
the state department of narcotic drug
control, l2S Prince street, took a yellow
card out Of pigeon hole in his desk
i The woman, she was about 3d. sat down
and on the card wrote her name and adj
dress, weight, height, nationality, occu-
patton and Ike information about herself
i FINALLY she came to the line reading
Marks of Identification
Cant make no mistake about me"
she simpered And she drew her skirt
above her knee and began other rather
Idisconcerting display preparations
4 Never mind, madame, never mind,
suffered the young doctor with such
embarrassment that she tossed her skirt
down again and giggled Historically.
1 "Oh, all right, she Scoffed. "Just
thought you'd like to see. Gotta welt
on the calf of my right leg. but no pune
lures. No. | amt never used the needle
and | amt no sleigh rider. either
4 Gut OF tattered wrist bag that still
4 made a brave show of brass initials she
EdIeW three small photographs Of herself.
4 hey were OF the sort used for passports.
he yellow card was made out in tripli-
cate and to each of the cards one of the
photographs was pasted After a few
more questions relative to the sort of
medicne she took, the name of her doc.
, tor, the nature of her ailment and its
duration, she shuffled out of the place
/ still bewailing.
! They oughta make it double strength
hey oughta make it double strength for
a body
: She was one Of the heterogeneous thron,
4 OF drug addicts that shambled. strodf
ana llmped in and out OF l2S Prince street
Yesterday to comply with the new state
drug law that compels every habitual user
OF narcotic drugs to register Nowhere
else IN the world could there have beer
assembled such a show of humanity
mere were more men than women. about
90 all told, and they ranged from q t.
20. '''l" = :
Came some shamefaced and furtive t.
make long and unsolicited statement,
ABOUT weak hearts, chronic neuralgia. nm
natural nerve centers and the like. anC
letters from their doctors attesting +,
the fact that this or that narcotic wa
an essential to the prolongation of life
Others came making voluble pretense O
hating the stuff, but manifesting all RI,
plt1tul symptoms of the inveterata uso
! Of drugs. 1t was nothing like the 81,
days OF cocaine peddling and the herou
traffic. And there was nothing abou
this crowd that made one bark back +,
the nights when the yen hol, and no,
iroile were to be had and INDUCED in b,
anybody possessing the appetite and s.
1t wasn't as colorful as that
hey were not all such as the woma,
f VINO had to have it." And they weren'
all shabby nor bleared. Some came !,
motor cars and clean clothes and ever
: outward manifestation of normal health
others also announced by their dress an,
manner that their addiction was not 70
their personal milestone.
Inc registration Of the city's drug ad
dicts began yesterday and win confirm
I all the week Walter r. Herricl cn,r
missioner Of the department Of narcot;
drug control Of the State Of New yorl
Hgures that within fortnight all tLoe
who are going to register viii have don
SO Those who do not either win caae
% OBTAIN the drug, or, by displaying il
possession, announce that some doctc
or druggist is defying the law Har
alter any person who applies to a nbvs
cian or a druggist IN this state for an
medicine containing narcotic drug wi
be compelled to produce the yelIow car
The doctor who prescribes the done vi
= write on the card Just how mncb II
addict Is to have The druggist vi
compounds or disneGses the stuff viii q
test en- tic card his compliance with Il
doctors prescription.
The card is good for two months 7
= have i renewed the addict must show i
y used card. and the old card must nro
\ that there has been a rigid adherence
d the law 1t goes without saying that ca
v or no card no person can prescribe. n,
chase or sell the straight narcotic. r
new law STIMULATES the maximum Of do
that medicines may contain, and the
medicines may not be dispensed exec
upon a physicians order