The narcotic drug problem / by Ernest S. Bishop.

  • Bishop, Ernest S. (Ernest Simons), 1876-1927.
Date:
[1920], ©1920
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Credit: The narcotic drug problem / by Ernest S. Bishop. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Medication, ignorant or unavoid¬ able, and drug addiction, 27 opiate, indispensable and le¬ gitimate, 116 “ specific,” fallacy of, 56 Misunderstanding of addict, cause of early failures in treatment, 5 “ Narcotics,” definition of term, 114 Need, drug, minimum daily, 66 of the hour in study of drug addiction, 130 narcotic drug, and mental and muscular work, 69 Observation in Bellevue, sixteen months, day and night, 3 Observations on physical or body reaction, 32 Opiate, withdrawing, simply one stage, 92 Opiates, and their unique prop¬ erties, 116 Organizations, medical duty of, 104 Origin of addiction, 25 Oxydimorphine and Marme the¬ ory, 38 Panaceas, search for, 56 Patients, intelligent, and the avoidance of complica¬ tions, 78 People, eminent, and drug addic¬ tion, 27 Philanthropy and its opportu¬ nity, 135 Physician, average, is inexpert in handling addiction dis¬ ease, 108 suffering from drug addiction, viewpoint of, 146 Physicians, honest, and their re¬ sponsibility, 103 Pilocarpine, use of, 50 Practice, legitimate medical, 95 Practitioner, honest, and con¬ trol of illicit drug traf¬ fic, 123 Principles, basic, of addiction- disease handling, 65 Problem, drug, still unsolved, 5 of drug addiction, ultimate solution of, 108 of the care of the innocent and worthy addict, 129 Profession, medical, attitude of, 50 Prostitution and “ white-slav¬ ery,” 125 Protection, bodily, against opi¬ ate, 42 mechanism of, 47 Pulpit and press, duty of, 135 Purgation, excessive, warning against, 81 Purpose, chief, of most lay and medical workers, 96 Questions that confront the American people, 136 Reaction, normal, stage of, 29 to therapeutic and toxic doses, 29 of drug addicts to therapeutic agents, 68 Reduction, enforced, below bodily need, dangers of, 69 slow, 51 References to recent literature, 39 Regulation, legislative and ad¬ ministrative, 105 of intervals of narcotic drug administrac-tion, 66 “ Relapses ” and production of antidotal substance, 45 Report, 1915, of New York Dept, of Correction, 72 Preliminary, of Whitney Com¬ mittee, 110 Responsibility for drug addiction laid on medical profession, 102