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...accountancy, medicine, especially psychiatry). They are often single (or if married, childless). They rarely play any musical instrument well themselves. The hi-fi devotee, Dr. Bowes found, "is very frequently of compulsive personality, and tends to go through rituals in the playing of his recordings." What distinguishes the psychopathological addict from the enthusiastic followers of this (or any other) hobby? Dr. Bowes answered: "His tendency to become preoccupied with, and dependent upon, the bizarre recorded sounds . . . combined with the urgency of the need and the final insufficiency of all attempts to satisfy it ... The sound is turned...
Those who are not well organized emotionally, said Dr. Bowes, "will treat their hi-fi set as the emotionally immature treat a car-as an expression of aggression, as a power symbol." To many it has a sexual connotation: addicts may be seeking a "sterile reproduction without biological bother," and in extreme cases, a record collection becomes a "symbolic harem." Significantly, says Psychiatrist Bowes (married, no children), an addict's wife almost always demands that the volume be turned down: "Perhaps in the male's interest in hi-fi she senses a rival, as shrill and discordant...
...doctors at the U.S. Public Health Service Hospital at Lexington, Ky. have already discovered, Nalline, when injected under the addict's skin, causes immediate withdrawal symptoms. (If given to basically healthy nonaddicts, the drug causes no serious symptoms.) In eight months of testing, Narcotics Inspector Fred Brau-moeller and Dr. James G. Terry, an Alameda County medical officer, also noted that Nalline has a telltale effect on the eyes of people to whom it is administered: while it causes a non-addict's pupils to constrict, it causes the addict's pupils to dilat...
Using the Nalline test, Inspector Brau-moeller and Dr. Terry have achieved some spectacular results. Addict convictions in Oakland, they report, have risen from 29 in 1955 to 150 in the last eight months, and crimes largely attributed to addicts have declined...
...family, thinly disguised under the name of Tyrone, are a fairly interesting lot. The head of the family, an aging and miserly actor, has sacrificed all his promise as an artist by playing only one role for many years, simply because it was lucrative. His wife is a dope addict, his elder son a drunken and brutal philanderer, and his second son, a tubercular writer who has as yet shown little promise, only a sense of despair...