The narcotic drug problem

It is a fact becoming more and more obvious that too little study and effort to interpret their physical condition have been given to those unfortunates suffering from narcotic...

My earliest efforts in the handling of narcotic addicts were institutional. They were along the lines of forcible control, based upon the theory that I could expect no help nor...

It is a pertinent question to ask, “What type or class of individuals become narcotic addicts?” The only correct answer unquestionably is, any type or class or individual to who...

I have in previous chapters referred to what are known as “withdrawal signs.” By this term has come to be known the manifestations displayed by a sufferer from addiction-disease...

Most physicians have at some time or other in the course of their practice encountered cases of narcotic addiction. Most addicts have appealed to the physician for advice and he...

If anything has been demonstrated conclusively concerning narcotics it is that the methods of the past, legal, administrative, and medical, have not solved the narcotic drug pro...

It is a common idea in the minds of both surgeons and physicians that an addict to narcotic drug is a difficult case for surgical handling and is a poor surgical risk. Numerous...

The first general appreciation of the widespread existence of narcotic drug use was brought about by the passage of anti-narcotic laws. The United States Federal legislation whi...

Before commenting upon the legitimate use of narcotics, it is desirable to emphasize again that the term “narcotics” as used in this volume refers particularly to the preparatio...

From the foregoing it is easy to see that the sooner the established facts of the fundamental physical basis and reactions of the addiction-states become matters of medical, soc...