Word: addicting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Federal experiments take place gingerly on Public Health Service's Narcotics Farm, opened last year at Lexington, Ky. Only carefully selected patients, upon whom no harm is apt to fall, received morphine substitutes. The regular procedure is to give such an addict the new drug while he is deprived of morphine. If he throws no deprivation fits, the new drug is considered an effective narcotic. After several days of this, the patient is deprived of all drugs. If he throws a fit, this proves that the substitute is also habit-forming...
...UNDERWORLD OF THE EAST-James S. Lee-Greenberg ($3.50). By an Englishman who confesses having been a drug addict for 30 years. A somewhat rascally but euphemistic account of "the underworlds, drug haunts and jungles of India, China, and the Malay Archipelago." Net effect: like that of a circus sideshow...
...enjoyment of nature, weary of his own brooding conscience, Oliver still cannot free his mind of questions of right and wrong, is offended when Jim tells him candidly of his father's weakness. Oliver's first shock comes when he learns that his father is a narcotic addict. Then he discovers that during his college days, at a fraternity initiation, his father had accidentally killed a man. To complete his disillusionment, he realizes that Jim, for all his friendliness and gayety, may eventually murder his father for money...
...their treatment Drs. Klingmann & Everts deprive the addict of morphine suddenly and completely, give him small, frequent doses of the drug used in twilight sleep, scopolamine hydrobromide. After the third or fourth dose of scopolamine, wrote they, "the patient develops a mild, low mumbling delirium. He is quite busy, and often amused, by figments of his imagination and the occasional visual hallucinations of a not unpleasant variety-picking at imaginary insects on the bed and the like. He cooperates very well, obeys commands promptly and partakes freely of food and drink, and the enteric and urinary elimination is good...
...Critic Brooks were still interested in literary careers that are still in process of petering out, he might well pick Phil Stong's as a glittering example. Author Stong's first published novel, State Fair (TIME, May 9, 1932), roused the tireless hopes of many a novel-addict, seemed to herald the coming of a genuine U. S. writer. But thereafter, in shoddy book after book, Author Stong showed where his heart was and where his treasure lay. By last week no intelligent reader had to be told that Phil Stong's eager gaze was bent...