The Powder River County examiner and the Broadus independent. [volume] (Broadus, Mont.) 1919-1935, 1921-02-04
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1.-The number Of confirmed done
fiends in this CITY," he continued. .sis
not less than 50 while the mild users
number not less than 2OO."
1.-THE causes for the growth of the
habit? There are two chief causes
though there are any number Of
others. In my opinion the increase
in the use Of drugs II due to the ex-
clusion of opium and prohibition.
The increase 10 chiefly among the
demi monde. Many Of these people,
race track followers, gamblers.
thieves, persons subjected to strain
or excess Of different kinds, were ad-
dicted to an occasional opium smoke.
The exclusion Of opium sent the price
SO high that an average opium smok-
er could not get satisfying smoke
today for less than S.. These opium
smokers turned to morphine and CO.
caine because it was cheaper.
Turn to Drugs
Next were the whiskey, brandy
and absinthe drinkers. Shut off
from their favorite stimulant they
turned to drugs.
: Finally, one Of the most prolific
causes of the spread Of the drug ha-
bit is the drug fiend himself or her.
self, as the case may be.
These people are possessed of a
mania for injecting drugs into non-
users. Just why they do so is not
known. but certain It is that they
seem to be possessed of an unc0ntrol-
liable itching to induce others to take
up the habit.
The two governing passions with
the dope users, outside of his own
supply of the drug, are corrupting
others and love of candy. Set
gold watch at one end of a table and
a box of candy in a room, admit a
dope field and tell him to take his
choice and he will invariably select
the candy. regardless of the value of
the watch"
Impressed by the proportions the
drug habit was assuming in the city,
a general roundup was recently start
ed. Chief Of Detectives Larkin and
Officers Gerry, Rodda and Powell
brought in ~ dope fiends in three
days. Judge Grimes sent them to
the county Jail for 80 days.
Assistant City Attorney Juttner
0loNNc kA1S SAO POAANO COuAt HOS UO
power to commit these people to the
insane asylum, where many of them
may be cured. That function rests
with the county attorney and the
judge of the district court.
1t is stated on the authority of an
opium, cocaine and morphine user,
who boasts that he has been shoot
ing dope for 80 years." and whose
pitted arms and emaciated frame
bear testimony to the ravages of the
drugs, even when used in small guam
titles, that "any dope fiend can be
cured in 80 days by progressive re-
auctions of the quantity, provided he
has not been user for more than
five years."
Can BE Cured
Anybody" he AYERS, "can be
cured, but in the case of old users
it takes more time. As to staying
cured, that is largely a matter of en-
vironment. II, when they are re-
leased, they are thrown among dope
ffends again the habit win re-estab-
fish itself. Every dope nend wants
to be cured, but they dread the treat
ments given in many places. The
only humane way is the progressive
reduction system.
Most of the dope fiends of Butte
are what we call sniffers. They in
hale through the nose. Their cure is
not difficult at this stage. If they
continue the habit they inevitably
turn to the syringe-the gun"
The mans arm was covered with
Jumps showing where the needle had
been inserted. There was not a
space as large as the head of pin
that did not show the scar of a
needle.
The man was induced to expose his
body. The color of the skin was like
notified chalk. The body was wasted
to point where 1t seemed as il the
bones would break through the un-
natural-appearing skin.
II can't talk much" he said. 81
am sick. II you give me a shot
will tell you all about the drug bust
ness.
"Heat or cold, rain or sunshine, !"
he said. lis all one to a dope fiend.
When we have shot we feel like
kings. When the effects wear off we
take another. What do we do when
we can't get it? Then it is hell"
One of the reasons suggested for
the dope fiend's mania for corrupt
ing others is said to lie in the fire.
quent difficulty in getting the drug.
They reason: The more users among
my acQuaintances the better will be
my chance to beg shot when my
supply is gone" suggests city Off
cial.
Hard to Apprehend Them
1T is seldom that fiend will ack-
nowledge the use of DOPE" said a
police officer. Practically all of
them deny it. Even when you catch
them with the tools on them they
will swear that they have quit the
habit or that the outfit was given to
them by some mythical person."
An organized system of drug SELL
ing and recruiting is said to be prev
alent all over the United States. The
apprehension of the drug peddlers
is difficult. The dope fiend will not
tell ON them because he knows It