Evening star., 1926-12-15
NEW CURE FOR DRUG HABIT
PROMISES MUCH MEDICALLY

without exception. the cases investi
gated by Drs. Lambert and Tilney
developed no such typical symptoms
From beginning to end of the treat
ment the patients do not lapse into
fears, RACES or hysterias.
Aids i'm Healing Ulcers.
Twilight Sleep" brought on by
hyoscin. has been extensively used to
aid addicts in reducing their drug.
But this method has the disadvantage
| of throwing the patient into low
and persistent delirium, as rule.
Narcosan has no such effect. 1t puts
| its takers into a subdued, quiet and
peaceful state. untroubled by delirium.
According to the report, many pa
tients enjoy this condition so greatly
that they beg for extra hypodermlc
| injections of the remedy.
| 1t is well known that many a drug
addict is a mass of ulcers as a result
| of the use of adulterated dope, or
careless injections or of his contln-
ually scratching or cutting his SKIN
to relieve the pathological ltching
and crawling sensations in his SKIN
| caused by the poison. The healing
| of such ulcers has always been quite
| a problem, over and above the task
of breaking down the drug haDlt.
Narcosan, oddly enough, clears up the
| ulcers very rapidly.
Drs. Lambert and Tilney have OBJ
served another popularity during
treatment. Addicts of all kinds regu-
larly suffer from violent attacks OF
dizziness as soon as they get on the
ground. They cannot walk up ladders
nor look down from even a slight ele-
walton. If lifted up in some such man
ner they tend to collapse Imply or 10
go giddy and reel.
No such symptoms appeared during
narcosan' treatment. Indeed, several
patients in the Welfare Island Hos
pital group expressed the wish to help
some other inmates paint the walls
of the building. When permitted to
do this, they walked up tall ladders
and worked by the hour on lofty
scaffolding without the slightest dis
comfort.
Cures Despite Long. Addiction.
In assembling patients for the tests
Drs. Lambert and Tilney were for
tunately able to find and study vir-
tually all important types of drug ad-
diction and alcoholism. In their re-
port they state:
I'm a few of these patients the ad-
diction has been Of short duration; in
many, of several years, 10 or Is years
duration: others have been even 30
or 40 years steadily addicted to some
narcotic Sixty-three per cent of
the men and "a per cent Of the women
were using heroin; 16 per cent of the
| men and IL per cent of the women
were using morphine; or per cent
of the men were using cocaine with
their heroin. Only one man COM
l. ipon I'm Itv
two used cocaine, one of them with
heroine and the other with morphine.
Heroin and morphine combined were
used by IL per cent of the men and
by two, women"
In all new treatments of this sort,
everybody will at once raise two Ques-
tions. Is the treatment equally effec-
tive for all kinds of addicts? And is 1t
permanent? The first question seems
to be conclusively answered. Narcosan
succeeds strikingly with the victims
of any or all the commonly used
drugs, no matter in which combina-
tions these are used. And it also sue
ceeds with alcoholic sufferers-which
is a still bigger story yet to be told
The second question cannot be fully
answered as yet and Drs. Lambert
and Tilney lay stress on this fact, in
order to prevent false hopes among
sufferers. Nevertheless, every indica-
ton at present is favorable to pro-
Ionged cure, If not to absolutely per-
manent cure.
Has Been Used Privately.
The probability that narcosan
effects a permanent cure, or at least
one which Is nearly as good as per-
manent, is heightened by the fact
that A. s. Horovitz discovered the
compound seven years ago and has
been supplying 1t to physicians all
over the United States ever since
then. for use in grave emergency
cases and in strictly private treat
ments. Complete records of such
cases could not be kept. But as far
as Mr.. Horovitz and his associates
have been informed about them, some
patients have remained cured for five,
six or seven years.
When we consider that all other
types of cures must commonly be pro-
longed for years, and that even then
q high percentage of the patients re-