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Waipawa Mail, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8193, 12 June 1919, Page 3

200,000 DRUG CRAVERS. AN EFFECT OF AMERICAN LIQUOR PROHIBITION. The Health Commissioner for New York, Dr. Copeland, attributes the drug' curse in great measure to the inability of those'accustomed to stimulants to procure whisky, says the New York correspondent of. the “Daily Mail.” He declares there are to-day between 200,000 and 300,000 drug takers in New York alone, and that the metropolis is facing the “gravest narcotic menace in its history.” What is true of New York is true of other great cities of the U.S. The Federal authorities have conducted a series of raids and arrested a number of doctors and chemists who have been illegally catering to the cravings of drug fiends. They have made amazing discoveries. In the last six months no fewer than 1,500,000 prescriptions for narcotics have been given by thirty New York doctors alone. One medical man arrested has been in the habit of prescribing for over 1000 patients daily. Prescriptions have been made out with the aid of a staff of clerks, and filled by chemists who dispensed cocaine at the rate of £2O an ounce—a profit of over 500 per cent. A result of the raids has been the entire suspension of the activities of the doctors in treating narcotic patients, who, deprived of drugs, have been wandering the streets in agony. The Health Commissioner has therefore opened municipal “drug clinics,” where patients abandoned by doctors can obtain relief at cost. These elinies, it is announced, will remain open day and night pntil further notice. The newspapers are devoting columns descriptions of the motley crowd of human wrecks seeking admission to the clinics, and to narrating the individual histories of the patients, three out of four of whom are under twenty-five years of age. Any Man can Clean his Clothes, any Woman her Dresses, by using I McKenzie’s safe CLOTH CLEANER Removes Spots, Stains and Grease. Sold by Drapers, Grocers and Ironmongers. PRICES: 2/- and ?/& American Go-Carts, FULLY COLLAPSIBLE. PRICES: £4 10/- TO £4 15/-. A. E. IVIN, Ruataniwha Street - Waipnkurau. PUMPS, CONNECTIONS & AL! BICYCLE SUNDRIES.