Evening star., 1926-12-15
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Gin. codeine, heroin, choral hydrate
hashish and the scores of addictions
todrugs and combinations of drugs
which are known to the hospitals and
police.
The implications of the discovery
reach far into sociology and into poll
tics and craftsmanship. A committee
of the League of Nations is given up
to study of the drug problem. The
United States spends $750,000 an
nually to check the drug trafflc.
Twenty-Five per cent of the prisoners
in Leavenworth and Atlanta are VIC
Tins of the drug traffic. Seventy-hve
per cent of New York City's $4,000
addicts are criminals. Addicts in the
United States spend nearly $200.O00,-
600 annually for illicit drugs. In
New York City $1,6S7,50 is spent an
nually for illegal dope"
Narcosan. the magic fluid which
DR.. HorovitZ has discovered, is de-
rived from several very familiar
members of the vegetable family. Soy
beans and cotton seeds yield the
lipoids through extraction with not
alcohol. The proteins come from al
falfa or millet seeds. The vitamins
come from other plant seeds.
Contains No Habit-Formers.
To the lavn1an the most significant
fact here is that the preparation doeS
not contain ahy morphine, heron, CO.
define, chloral hydrate, nor any sort
of alkaloid or other habit-formlng
drug. Hence the effects upon the SUI
ferers during their treatment WIN
&At AiffnFQnf from
the distressing and even horrible IN
ffuences of some of the other methods
and preparations now in vogue.
According to scientists who nave
been studying narcosan, it is COM
pound which breaks down easily. II
cannot be made by any synthetic
process yet conceived by chemists, but,
fortunately for the world, it is easy
to manufacture. There is little
chance that it can turn out wrong
and produce bad effects or no effects
at all.
The effects of the preparation are
marked, but not unduly painful or
distressing. Some of the patients
cured by it have said that they have
not been disturbed by it at all, but
few days there is some pain, but
nothing so severe as they have had
to endure in other treatments. With
in 48 hours they begin to feel calm
and happy.
All this indicates the enormous
speed at which narcoSan works. In
the opinion Of New York specialists,
narcosan will always have to be ad-
ministered in hospitals or sanitaria.
because in his own home the addict
can always take his dope secretly.
Craving Ends i'm Three Days.
In the course of their observations
of the many patients under their SUI
pervision, Drs. Lambert and Tilney
discovered that narcoSan causes none
of those night horrors and insomnias
which torment the addict undergoing
other treatments. They found their
patients beginning to sleep restfully
by the second or third night without
the aid Of any soporific.
After then most of them declared
that they felt much better. BY the
fourth day the majority asserted of
their own accord that their physical
craving for narcotics had ceased.
BY the fifth day their appetites be-
gan to return, while their sleep i'm
proved steadily. Within a short time
their appetiteS became excessive. and
they especially craved sugar. This Is
in view Of the almost
universal loss of appetite from which
drug addicts suffer. Furthermore. pa
tients digest everything they eat. Un-
der no other treatment does this oc-
cur. Undoubtedly it counts heavily
In the progress toward health.
The psychic effects Of narcoSan are
perhaps even more startling. Hereto
fore the addict who has been COM
PEELED to reduce the amount Of dope
he takes, day by day, develops horri-
BILE fears and even hysterical attacks.
Often his panic becomes maniacal. and
he attacks nurses and keepers in a
wild effort to get the soothing poison
which has erslaved his body and his
mind. It is the shadow of this fear
which drives the penniless victim or
the addict who by some mischance
has lost touch with his supply OF
dope to robbery, assault or even MUIR
der as a means of getting the drug.
The agony of going without the
stuff is uncomfortable, and no crime
for its sake seems heinous. All this
is avoided when narcosan is employed.