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...Strong Cobb & Co. of Cleveland announced a new barbiturate which in overlarge doses will turn the stomachs of "goofball" addicts and would-be suicides. Developed by Drs. Theodore Koppanyi and Joseph Fazekas of Washington, D.C., the pills contain standard barbiturates and an added safety factor, pentylenetetrazol. A powerful nerve stimulant, the safety factor counteracts the depressant effect of too much barbiturate, and long before the goofball addict drifts into euphoria or the would-be suicide passes out, pentylenetetrazol causes the unhappy user to vomit his medicine...
Hungry and cold in the streets, she was befriended by a streetwalker, and by a drug addict who introduced Kiki (aged 16) to cocaine. A pimp seduced her, beat her arid threw her out because she "wasn't good for anything." One night a girl friend told her that there were "nice suet cakes and tea to drink" at the house of a Russian living in the Cite Falguiére. The girls stood shivering on the doorstep, afraid to knock. A neighboring painter, as poor and as cold as themselves, but a man of talent, took them...
...Stop Smoking" [TIME, Sept. 15] prompts an addict to reply: Why? Tobacco is a drug but a good drug. Consider the eminent and distinguished persons, men & women, of high repute, superior judgments and discriminating tastes, who find comfort and release from nervous tensions through the soothing influence of this mild narcotic . . . Lady Nicotine is a dear . . . Don't ever let them take it away...
Stevenson has none of the strident partisanship, the rigid thinking, or the banality toward maladministration shown by the current president, nor is he a chronic addict of the Big Oversimplification. His career as well as his speeches have injected into politics a zeal for intellectual exertion and a faith in the electorate's judgement which, no matter how justified or successful, has made this campaign the most constructive in years...
...Johnston expects to see few reformed smokers until doctors themselves wake up to tobacco's dangers. "About 80% of us are smokers," he estimates sadly, "and we behave collectively like an addict . . . Radical cure of tobacco smoking lies in its prevention and tobacco smoking is no more difficult to prevent than opium smoking. Our duty is plain...