Treatment of Drug Addiction

Abstract

No one who has treated any considerable number of drug addicts, will venture the assertion that any treatment is successful in bringing about permanent cures in the majority of cases. To produce a temporary cure is a simple matter. One can in comparatively short time deprive the addict of his desires for the drug, build him up physically and to all appearances have him entirely cured. But return the addict to his former associates and haunts, and although he fully realizes how his addiction has ruined his career, he will not hesitate to take up the vice again. Drug addicts are very generous with their drug to their fellow sufferers. They will always share the potion with another, no matter what his appearance or station in life may be. No class distinctions are drawn. And singularly enough, one dope fiend knows all the other dope fiends in his locality.