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In his Washington office Harry Jacob Anslinger keeps a sinister collection of heroin, opium pipes, and other paraphernalia seized by the U.S. Bureau of Narcotics, which he organized in 1930 and has headed ever since. Last week Commissioner Anslinger, 62, a Pennsylvania Dutchman who knows more about the worldwide drug...
Despite the new flow of drugs from Red China, U.S. narcotic addiction has declined, and the rate is now down to one person in 3,000 (some 60,000 addicts) compared to one in 400 (300,000 addicts) in 1930. In Asia, however, Communist China's lucrative narcotic trade...
"Look out for Loulou," was a warning often whispered in the Paris underworld when chunky Louis Métra was chief of the Vice and Narcotic Brigade. A Parisian cop since 1925, "Loulou" Métra, a mild, tactful and polite fellow, had an insidious talent for winning the confidence...
New York runs a special school for young narcotic addicts on the East River's North Brother Island, and diligently instructs them in academic subjects while they take the cure. It holds special classes for 93 blind children, 384 deaf children, 3,613 youngsters with heart trouble and other...
With few exceptions, Payne Whitney's patients are depressed, anxious and tense. Many have complaints such as peptic ulcers, migraine, asthma, colitis, or skin disorders of psychosomatic origin. Some are alcoholics, a few are narcotic addicts, many have precipitated their admission to the hospital by attempting or threatening suicide...