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...Real Dope. In Manhattan, Dishwasher Ping Wing, 72, arrested for possession of narcotics, told police: "I've been using heroin for 55 years, and I've never felt better...
...beyond her grasp-that of an actress. And not just any actress, but the brilliant, tempestuous Broadway deity of the teens and '20s, who ran for four years as Sadie Thompson in Rain, lived with tigerish passion, and died at 35 in a gutterdam-merung of hooch and heroin...
...eyes of the whole newspaper-reading world focused in fascination on the pudgy, amiable defendant, expert after expert took the stand at the behest of the crown's prosecutor, Attorney General Sir Reginald Manningham-Buller. No one denied that on Dr. Adams' orders large doses of heroin, morphine and paraldehyde had been administered to the ailing, 81-year-old widow during the long illness that preceded her death. Only the experts could say whether this medication had hastened her end or merely, as the defense contended, eased the pain of her inevitable passing. The more the experts talked...
...took the stand to answer the questions of the prosecutor, Harley Street's distinguished Dr. Arthur Henry Douthwaite, British authority on morphia and heroin, seemed utterly free of doubt. "The only conclusion I can come to," he told the court confidently in connection with the dosage given Mrs. Morrell, "is the intention was to terminate her life." But in crossexamination, Defense Counsel Lawrence had a question: In treating a patient already addicted to drugs, would not a doctor have to face two alternatives, the first of which would be to stop the drugs? "Yes," said Dr. Douthwaite...
...part of your case," said Barrister Lawrence, "that stopping a drug like morphia or heroin will cause illness and suffering?" "Yes," said the doctor...