The American Medical Society, representing {)(),()()() pliysicisiiiK, demands that Congress shall immediately hogin an investigation of the drug evil, which, it says, is threatening the gravest harm to American lift*. More narcotics arc consumed in America than in any other country of the world. Despite preventive laws, smuggling goes oil til all t lie ports, and drugvendors ply their trade in every city. it is estimated that there are tun million victims of the drug evil, and that the yearlv loss in wages owing to the drug habit is L'Bo.-
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Dunstan Times, Issue 3131, 21 August 1922, Page 8
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