"Habits that Handicap: The Menace of Opium, Alcohol, and Tobacco, and the Remedy" by Charles Barnes Towns. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
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Charles Barnes Towns. Habits that Handicap: The Menace of Opium, Alcohol, and Tobacco, and the Remedy
Habits that Handicap: The Menace of Opium, Alcohol, and Tobacco, and the Remedy
Table of Contents
PREFACE
PREFACE
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER I
THE PERIL OF THE DRUG HABIT
CHAPTER II
THE NEED OF ADEQUATE SPECIFIC TREATMENT FOR THE DRUG-TAKER
CHAPTER III
THE DRUG-TAKER AND THE PHYSICIAN
CHAPTER IV
PSYCHOLOGY AND DRUGS
CHAPTER V
ALCOHOLICS
CHAPTER VI
HELP FOR THE HARD DRINKER
CHAPTER VII
CLASSIFICATION OF ALCOHOLICS
CHAPTER VIII
THE INJURIOUSNESS OF TOBACCO
CHAPTER IX
TOBACCO AND THE FUTURE OF THE RACE
CHAPTER X
THE SANATORIUM
CHAPTER XI
PREVENTIVE MEASURES FOR THE DRUG EVIL
CHAPTER XII
CLASSIFICATION OF HABIT-FORMING DRUGS
CHAPTER XIII
PSYCHOLOGY OF ADDICTION
CHAPTER XIV
RELATION OF DRUGS AND ALCOHOL TO INSANITY
THE RELATION OF ALCOHOL TO DISEASE
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Charles Barnes Towns
Published by Good Press, 2019
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The important habit-forming drugs are opium, cocaine, and the small, but dangerous, group of hypnotics. These last—trional, veronal, sulphonal, medinal, etc.—are chiefly coal-tar products, and are not always classified as habit-forming drugs, but they are such, and there are many reasons why the sale of them should be scrupulously regulated. The opium derivatives go under the general head of narcotics. Morphine is the chief active principle, and codeine and heroin are the chief derivatives of morphine. Codeine is one eighth the strength of morphine; heroin is three times as strong as morphine.
Though the general impression is otherwise, the users of heroin acquire the habit as quickly and as easily as if they took morphine. Many cough and asthma preparations contain heroin, simply for temporary alleviation, since, like opium, it has no curative power whatever. From time to time I have had to treat cases of heroin-taking in which the victims had thought to satisfy their need for an opiate without forming a habit. In the cases where it was given by prescription, it was so given by the physician in the sincere belief that it would not create a habit. All this despite the fact that heroin is three times stronger than morphine, and despite the fact that physicians know that anything which will do the work of an opiate is an opiate. Codeine, notwithstanding the fact that it is weaker than morphine, is likewise habit-forming; yet doctors prescribe it on account of its relative mildness, even though they know that it is the cumulative effect of continued doses, and not the quantity of morphine in the dose, which results in habit. As with morphine, to use either of these drugs effectively means in the long run the necessary increase of the dose up to the limit of physical tolerance.
