DRUG TRAFFIC.
TOLL IN NEW YORK Importations bv Millionaire Financiers. HABIT Uf HIGH LIFE. (By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright-' i Rewired i".30 n.ai l SEW YORK. February 20. The narcotic bureau of the Police Department announces that there are approximately 15.000 drug addicts in New York, of whom 2639 were arrested in 1930; 00 per cent harihe criminal records ranging to homicide. Only ton per cent of the users of narcotics are women. A group of three millionaire financiers arrange the importation of druirs into America and these, very much adulterated, are sold to addicts at exorbitant prices. Heroin sells at 35 dollars per ounee and ooroainc at 40 in the streets of the • it v. The u-=c of driifr* i« by no meanlimited to criminals. Many pcrr-ori* in high social standing, well educated and jM>«cp=sinp notable intellectual attributes are anions the addicts. The report concludes that misdirected curiosity is the most frequtmt cau«e of the ilniir linliit.
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Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 43, 21 February 1927, Page 7
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