The Washington times., 1926-06-02
What Drugs Cost This Nation
The Astonishing Figures Ought to Interest
SOMEBODY

talk abOut the horrible sufferings caused BY the
orup babno suffering more intense
arouse CERTAIN amount Of sympathy and interest
Everybody SAYS SOMETHING ought to be done about IT,
Nothing IL done The bootsgge Of cocaine morphine hero
ii opun and other drugs continue their business There Is
BIG PROFIT ii ii They take what risk there j. And the
risk ism: great
The drugs Ire easily hidden Any carry concealed
his pockets small fortune u the most dreadful q these
drugs
Bootleg whsskey il comparatively bulky, hard to hide
The seller Of drugs preyng upon the miserable drug nend
san hide il bis hasband enough for days business
me Government does nothing much about the laws
esrning narcotics Perhaps CANT do anything perhaps
TOO busy with tie bootleg whkey to pay much attention e
the bootleg morphine although he who forms the drug habit
Is captured FoR LIFE and ii to be ped thousand times
more than tie victim q whskey
wh;ls sympathy produces little effort perhaps
worry shout money might produce more.
National authorities struggling for economy have little
idea how much money goes from the most miserable class Of
population into ths hands of the yes from che unhappy
drug fends to those that prey their misery and supply
shsm With tie drugs
Ihe.e are II tie United States according 70 official sta
tstc a least one million men and women that habitual
rnern drug Such must have The drug
DAY
IL b without ii most horrible suffering ma misery
livery effort livery sacrifice WIN y ,naas z SCI
The average price 81 grain Of morphine i one dollar
sometimes 81 bought for fifty cents sometimes when the
victim q rich 81 ca 81 blaoaed through intense suffering
the price Is IS high S. six dollars grain.
The average price &c least dollar per grain the ~
eags necessary for the average unfortunate addict
= five grains per day
TAs cost gwen reported " Colonel Mutt expert
cut he estimated druK consumption cost ii two YOu
lind 81 Tie drug ha. cost. q victim. y tLs United States
DRIED THOUSAND DOLLARS YEAR.
rhuk what shas gpatic sum, sol25oooOo might mean 81
s. could used the welfare o. the nation instead Of being
nsd = II used miserable drug victims even
mors drsadfl agory apd misery
VIII sneh ~ d money ths country could wipe out
malaria completely yellow has been wiped ont And
at sncs achieved would mean restoring millions Is health
nd q productive labor md would increase by hundreds oil
millions yearly the wealth Of the United STATED.
Tia nation has been discussing The building Of ship canal
- connect tue Great Lakes with the ocean, estimated to cost
DON s25oocooOo y SoooooOoo The Administration and
The money taken from miserable drug victims ii one yearl
would build three such canals
habit and 81 drug booteggng viii the Government toll
tnekstc action Even y best unhappiy il questionable
WHISTLER can be done except very slowly 70 save the
miserable oTug vleslms asS
they are horeessy ID the grasp Of the drug and 81 tie
criminal that supplies It
they cannot SAVE THEalsELvEs they viii give all they
have fOr the drug and then plead 20 get Of it
The drug Is easily hidden All but the lowest class 81
drug peddes their regular victims and customer who
dare not beray thesnce betrayal would that they
IS d the worst most difficult problems Of our civi
zatOn and unfortunately like crime problem
10 have been made BY PROHIBITION.
Many that could not get less harmful smulants or soda
tyes have turned 70 drugs easily concealed realizing
the dreadful slavery ahead Of them.
Figures that cannot Be questioned show what an extent
the lilct. drug trade is carried ID this country
Tor sOcalIed legitimate use medical and scientific the
nation imports with legal approval eight tons Of the deadly
drugs IN addition 70 this for those unhappy addicts who buy
from booeggers in defiance Of law there secretly i'm
ported l1s TONS or DRUGS DESTROYING MIND BoDYl
AND CHARACTER
Unfortunately many drug addicts the beginning oil
their trouble to unse prescriptions given by doctors for ALE
Waiting pain Doctors Of high class which means Of course
the great majority realize this great responsibility and are
most earnest n their precautions
They realize also to their deep regret that many in
their profession 10 fact themselves dealers the drugs
tO the desires Of drug addcts the Of
legal prescriptions =
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