The Washington times., 1922-06-11

dous nonsense even these emonh generally
Two years are none too short for many addcts. Any
cure under six months would call pretty Intellectual
For with the addict is not enough to take away the
drug The nerves be built up the shattered
by years of drugs till they will not camor for the poison.
What was wrought slowly must be remedied slowly.
With opium the user cure himself without goina
to sanarium, though for all che other drugs sani.
tarium should say the only thing. This is one way
the opium habit may be cured: Take bottle and fiji
it half full of liquid opium. Fill the other half With
sherry wine Each day take from the bottle tablespoon
full of the mixture and this is removed gil up with
pure sherry. After while the mixture will be nothna
but wine. Keeping to this daily diminishing drug the
opium slave will be uncomforabe he will suffer- but noe
when morphine taken from him. and not unbearaby.
Now for the of the dose of various drugs.
At opium party Of say six guests at least ten pills
would be smoked by each guest, if each seasoned
smoker. The young woman smoker for her first time
is told to stop at two pills. 1t would be better for
her to do this Ten pills would kill her. When the opium
pleasure smoker has acquired what called the habit he
has sday habit twoaday habit or three-a-day
habit This that if he does not get his opium
twice three times each day he develops what TECH
nically known a "yen."
When victim has yen on'' his eyes water, he yawns,
he aches in every of his body with ache which
sexacty like toothache but it is everywhere And how
he pespres He suffers alternate chs and fever Drops
of sweat stand out his forehead The pains Of child
BIRTH severe rackng, torturing while they last are as
nothing to the pains of opium or morphine denied And
know for have borne two children. Coming to NOR
phine dose of fourth of grain considered ample
for the first user But the persists the dose is in
creased till ten grains easily consumed DE Quincy
the English author who wrote the Confessions of an
Opium Eater ate opium, and did not smoke it. Toward
the end of his he ate dose which amounted to
sixty grains daily.
This so far as my knowledge and experience CO. Is the
largest amount known to have been consumed daily by
one single person. But this amount De Quincy did not
need to get all the effect possible from the drug He
merely ina gined he needed that amount If kind old
nature had not arranged means Of throwing off much
of this unassmlated opium DE Quincy would have died
of his sixty grains Ten at most twenty grains supply
to the addict all the false and menacng kick there is
in opium.
would like to end this article with simple warning:
Young man-young woman shun like the plague the per-
son who first asks you to smoke for lark. That's the
way most every shameful downnothe gutter addict has
developed And just remember when the drug has got
you you will be able to explain the despair you feel
on looking at the little black opium pill. so small-and
yet is my absolute master is what you will tell your
self In agony Of spirit. ....4
For this is the law and the gospel Of the whole matter
There never was addict, throagh all the length and
breadth Of the earth but angshed in his heart Tor
cure; but prayed with whatever prayers he knew Tor
cure But the percentage Of the drug users who are
cured two out Of ten The time to stop before you
have begun.