INDEX

Abnormalities, getting rid of, in preliminary stage, [83]
Acidosis in opiate addiction, [48]
Addict, criminal or vicious, handling of, [108]
drug, as a surgical and medical risk, [85]
coöperation of, [72]
often unknown and unsuspected, [7]
honest, and need of competent medical care, [109]
and custodial care, [28]
medical, personal history of, [140]
mixed, [115]
narcotic, failure to understand, [5]
will coöperate and suffer, [6]
Addicts, drug, accidental or innocent, [28]
age of, [24]
and influenza and pneumonia, [86]
majority of, [17]
often understand own cases, [7]
what type or class become, [23]
innocent and worthy, what shall we do with them? [129]
narcotic, average individuals, [3]
often men and women of high ideals, [3]
worthy and innocent, problem of, [128]
youthful, [125]
Addiction, author’s definition of, [20]
beginning stage of, [30]
development of, [29]
disease, author’s conclusions, [40]
a chronic condition, [93]
in newly born infant, [24]
may afflict all classes, [19]
mechanism of, [36], [41]
rational handling of, [61]
treatment of, and legitimate medical practice, [99]
drug, a medical problem, [28]
among soldiers, [117]
and defectives, [16]
a plea for broader consideration of, [156]
and the average person, [17]
as a sequelae of war, [120]
contraction of, in the army, [118]
in surgical cases, [85]
medical problem of, [21]
methods of treating, [50]
origin of, [25]
so-called specific, treatment of, [55]
unsuspected, [26]
viewpoint of physician afflicted with, [146]
wrongly described, [14]
established, stage of, [31]
narcotic, a demonstrable disease, [59]
a recognized menace, [4]
classed as a vice or morbid appetite, [4]
opiate, as a war problem, [117]
complicated with cocaine, [3]
picture wrongly painted, [2]
Adequacy, metabolic and organic, relation to other disease conditions, [92]
Administration, narcotic drug, regulation of, [65]
“After Care” or convalescence, [53]
Age of addicts, [24]
American Medicine, human documents from, [137]
Antidotal substance, [42]
Any one liable to drug addiction, [8]
Attempts at administrative and police control, [4]
Attitude of drug addict, [71]
of lawmakers to drug addiction, [102]
of medical profession, [50]
personal, of physician to drug addict, [70]
to drug addicts, author’s unjust, [12]
Auto-intoxication and autotoxicosis, [46]

Balance, drug adequate, importance of establishing and maintaining, [92]
narcotic drug, and minimum daily need, [66]
and operative procedure, [92]
necessity of maintaining, [67]
Basis of success, [132]
Beacon-light of hope for drug addicts, [14]
Belladonna, use of, [55]
Bellevue Hospital, early work in alcoholic and narcotic wards, [2]

Care, custodial, and the honest addict, [28]
Cases demonstrating presence of antidotal substance, [43]
Catharsis, non-irritating, [79]
Cause of withdrawal symptoms, [38]
Causes of failure in solving drug problem, [5]
Clinics, drug, need for, under competent medical direction, [124]
public, [135]
Cocaine, habitual use of, [115]
Committee appointed by Secretary of Treasury, report, [14]
Complications, avoided by intelligent patients, [78]
Conclusions of author, [40]
Condition, another disease, relation of functional balance to, [92]
drug patient’s, as index of successful treatment, [75]
Considerations, fundamental, [11]
Convalescence, and “after care,” [53]
Coöperation of drug addict, factors which determine, [72]
Cure of drug addiction, What constitutes? [76]
“Cures,” basis of, [55]
Custodial care and the honest addict, [28]

Danger of restrictive legislation, [123]
Dangers of belladonna, hyoscine, pilocarpine, etc., [80]
Data, institutional, lack of, [58]
Defectives and drug addiction, [16]
Definition of term “narcotics,” [114]
Deprivation, forcible, danger of, [53]
Development of addiction stage, [29]
Discontinuance of narcotic drug, difficulties of, [69]
Disease, addiction, rational handling of, [61]
drug addiction, nature of, [23]
Documents, human, [137]
Dosage, narcotic drug, in relation to withdrawal symptoms, [75]
Doses, therapeutic, and toxic stage of normal reaction to, [29]
Drug, narcotic, balance, [67]
definite body need for, [37]
Drugs, narcotic, and the physical condition established, [21]
may afford pleasure, [3]
legitimate use of, in peace and war, [114]
prescribing and dispensing of, [100]
relations of laws to, [95]
Du Mez’s recent paper, [38]

Education and training, [131]
lay, medical and official, needed, [109]
neglect of, and illicit traffic, [126]
Efficiency, functional, nutritional and metabolic importance of, [92]
Efforts, author’s early, [11]
Elimination, competent, not measured in bowel movements, [81]
of opiate, and cell tolerance, [46]
Evils, chief, of present drug situation, [122]
Exploitation, commercial, and its financial possibilities, [125]
of physical suffering, [123]

Facts concerning drug addiction, necessity for unbiased medical investigation of, [101]
significant, [13]
Fear, constant, addict lives in, [92]
Function, inhibition of, [46]

Gioffredi, investigation of, [26], [38]

Handling, institutional and custodial, and certain types of addicts, [108]
of criminal or vicious addict, [108]
preliminary to withdrawal, [62]
rational, of addiction disease, [61]
Harrison Law, effect on medical profession, [96]
reasons for failure of, [96]
wise in purpose, [95]
Hirschlaff’s experiments, [26], [38]
History of medical addict, [140]
Hyoscyamus, use of, [55]

Ignorance, the harmful effects of, [127]
Immunity to narcotic drugs, [4]
Inefficiency, medical, [6]
Infant, newly-born, and addiction disease, [24]
Influenza and pneumonia in drug addicts, [86]
Information, clinical, paucity of, [58]
Intervals, long, between doses, desirable, [77]
Introduction, [1]

Jennings’ studies of acidosis, [48]

Kobert’s and Toth’s studies, [38]

Law, Harrison, failure of, [96]
makers, attitude to drug addiction, [102]
What has it done for the addict? [102]
Laws and old conceptions of drug addiction, [96]
and their relations to narcotic drugs, [95]
drug, enforcement and increased suffering of addicts, [96]

Magendie’s findings, [38]
Marme and oxydimorphine, [38]
Mechanism, essential, of addiction disease, [41]
of narcotic drug addiction disease, [36]
of protection, [47]
Medication, ignorant or unavoidable, and drug addiction, [27]
opiate, indispensable and legitimate, [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 properties, [116]
Organizations, medical duty of, [104]
Origin of addiction, [25]
Oxydimorphine and Marme theory, [38]

Panaceas, search for, [56]
Patients, intelligent, and the avoidance of complications, [78]
People, eminent, and drug addiction, [27]
Philanthropy and its opportunity, [135]
Physician, average, is inexpert in handling addiction disease, [108]
suffering from drug addiction, viewpoint of, [146]
Physicians, honest, and their responsibility, [103]
Pilocarpine, use of, [50]
Practice, legitimate medical, [95]
Practitioner, honest, and control of illicit drug traffic, [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-slavery,” [125]
Protection, bodily, against opiate, [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 administrative, [105]
of intervals of narcotic drug administration, [66]
“Relapses” and production of antidotal substance, [45]
Report, 1915, of New York Dept. of Correction, [72]
Preliminary, of Whitney Committee, [110]
Responsibility for drug addiction laid on medical profession, [102]
Restoration of drug addict to health, [83]

Side, personal, of drug addiction, [137]
Solution of drug problem, ultimate, [108]
Stage of study, preliminary to withdrawal, [63]
preliminary, abnormalities in, [83]
Stages of addiction development, [29]
Stool, “typical,” of Towns treatment, [79]
Study, clinical and laboratory, lack of, [91]
of patient, essential as preliminary to withdrawal, [63]
Substance, antidotal, to opiate, and bodily protection, [42]
Suffering, physical, and drug addiction, [20]
Survey of the situation, [122]

Terms that should be eliminated, [9]
Testimony of Whitney Committee, deductions from, [134]
Theories, author’s wrong, [12]
Tolerance, explanation of, [38]
increased, stage of, [30]
Traffic in narcotic drugs, illicit, [103]
Treatment, importance of regulating intervals of narcotic drug administration in, [65]
rational, of addiction disease, [61]
so-called specific, [55]
specific, author’s disbelief in, [80]

“Underworld” and desperate necessity of addict, [28]
Use, legitimate, of narcotics in peace and war, [114]

Valenti’s studies, [26], [38]
Veterans, Civil War and drug addiction, [24]
Views, personal and legal, of drug addiction, [137]

Whitney Committee. Hearings, testimony of, [107]
Withdrawal accompanied by use of various drugs, [51]
forcible, and suicide, [53]
stage of, [62]
sudden, [53]
symptoms, [35]
Withdrawing of opiate simply one stage, [92]

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