The Delinquent (Vol. IV, No. 3, March 1914)

The Delinquent (Vol. IV, No. 3, March 1914)

[We reprint Edward Marshalls illuminating article from the New York Times of February 22nd on the most recent serious menace within our prisons, and outside of them. There has come throughout the country, apparently a relatively sudden realization of the fearful effects of the habit-forming drugs.] Discussion is continual of this strangest and saddest of the problems of our modern civilization; city officials are definitely interested, studying and planning; a committee, including in its membership magistrates and others of sociological force, works on an impulse supplied by Mrs. Vanderbilt; and from a third source definite legislation emanates to be offered in the Legislatures of this and other States and in the National Congress. And all this has come suddenly. Not so many years ago the opium smoker was the only known victim, and he was a curiosity of Chinatown; the morphine taker was a rare, and troubled spirit, stalking solitary in its slavery and misery; the cocaine fiend remained unknown, and the heroin addictlatest in all this incomparably tragic companywas undreamed of. Now opium smoking, though still the cause of an occasional police raid, has sunk into insignificance by comparison with morphine taking; cocaine habitues are not uncommon sights upon the streets to those with the depressing knowledge which identifies them; police slang has coined a name for themsnowbirds; and we read in almost every issue of our daily newspapers of new developments of the heroin habit. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 56905
Author: Various
Release Date: Apr 3, 2018
Format: eBook
Language: English