Word: alcoholism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Welfare Island. He said that narcosan cured them, at least temporarily. His report attracted considerable attention. Dr. Alexander Lambert and Dr. Frederick Tilney, famed Manhattan physicians, reported on narcosan in the New York Medical Journal and Record. They said that it had relieved , morphin, cocain, heroin, veronal and alcohol addiction, without causing delirium or intense suffering. Whether the treatment was permanent or not they said they did not know, could not guess...
...Addicts who smoke it use a small lamp, like a dentist's lamp, over which they give the dark pellet a slow roasting; then they put it in the tiny bowl of a long pipe. Their dreams are gentle. Opium does not waste tissues so quickly as does alcohol...
Hypnotic drugs which induce sleep are often confused with the narcotics which dull pain. Bromides, sulphonal, veronal are hypnotics. Insomniacs take them habitually. Other habit-forming drugs are ether, alcohol, chloroform, hashish (the drug of inspired assassins) and mandrake,* sleepy syrup that comes from a forked root...
...dynamic was the pen of Pierre S. du Pont, chairman of the board of E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., when he told of the benefits of the Quebec Liquor Commission in the December issue of Current History. Said he: "In Quebec a non-injurious quantity of alcohol may be purchased and drunk freely and openly with State guarantee of freedom from harmful adulterant. But in the United States the legal penalty for this harmless act is death. That death does not result from the many drinks taken is because our law is not enforced; legally all alcohol sold...
Though such lively campaign utterances raised a furor of criticism, the electoral results showed 79 representatives potentially for repeal of the O. T. A. and only 32 left to support it. Within ten minutes after the returns were announced shares of Canadian Industrial Alcohol rose to a total increase in value of $3,200,000, and other Ontario distillery stocks similarly skyrocketed...