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64 NORTH CAROLINA MEDICAL SOCIETY. Manifestly a Relatively accurate estimate is practically impossible of securing, but it is well to remember in tliis connection that the number of habitues is limited to an extent at least by the amount of the available opiates, and the visible supply of narcotics would not, in the judgment of the Federal authorities, suffice to supply in excess of one-tenth of the maximum number mentioned above. As far back as the year 1866 Dr. Edward R. Squibb, testifying before a congressional investigating committee, stated that at that time not more than one-fifth of the opium imported into this country was needed for the legitimate demands of reputable medical practice, and the Government experts who have been more recently studying anew this whole proposition believe this estimate a fairly correct one for the present day. Be the number of narcotic habitues what it may, in North Carolina or in the Nation, it is manifest to us of the medical profession that a tremendous responsibility has rested in the past, and in no less a degree rests today upon the individual members of the guild in connection with the users of narcotic drugs. Just what shall be done for those now in the thralldom of narcotic habit is a problem that calls for immediate legislative action. I trust that an enlightened and quickened public conscience in this State will see to it that this important subject is carefully considered at the next session of the State Legislature with a view to making proper provision for these unfortunates. Certainly the State of North Carolina should provide for the examination and treatment of narcotic habitues as a wise and patriotic public policy; and it may seriously be questioned, in this connection, if the progressive State of Michigan goes a single step too far in having enacted legislation which provides that any citizen of Michigan who is addicted to the excessive use of intoxicating liquors or narcotic drugs may, after due examination, be declared incompetent by a probate judge, and a guardian of his or her person appointed. Is there a single community in North Carolina today where the putting into force of such a statute would not be fraught with beneficial results ? Would not such a measure, wisely enforced, conserve property rights of patient and long-suffering women and little children, besides exerting a most helpful influence in restraining the subjects of narcotic habit ? I here mention the vicarious sufferings of the opposite sex, gentlemen, not to convey the impression that the misuse of narcotics is solely a masculine errancy, for it is not, but especially for the reason that I believe the chief indirect sufferers from these habits to be women and children. Womankind, we well know, cares for and clings to fallen man much longer than men do to women when the conditions are reversed. When the State of North Carolina enacted its prohibition
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Fixed Title * | NCHH-16: Transactions of the Medical Society of the State of North Carolina [1891-1939] |
Document Title | Transactions of the Medical Society of the State of North Carolina [1891-1939] |
Subject Topical | Medicine -- North Carolina -- Societies, etc. |
Subject Topical Other | Societies, Medical -- North Carolina. |
Description | After 1939 transactions published in the North Carolina Medical Journal |
Creator | Medical Society of the State of North Carolina. Annual Session. |
Publisher | Raleigh, N.C. : Medical Society of the State of North Carolina, 1891-1939. |
Repository | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Health Sciences Library. |
Host | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Date | 1915 |
Identifier | NCHH-16-062 |
Form General | Periodicals |
Language | English |
Rights | This item is part of the North Carolina History of Health Digital Collection. Some materials in the Collection are protected by U.S. copyright law. This item is presented by the Health Sciences Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for research and educational purposes. It may not be republished or distributed without permission of the Health Sciences Library. |
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Volume Number | 62 |
Health Discipline | Medicine |
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Document Title | Transactions of the Medical Society of the State of North Carolina [1891-1939] |
Subject Topical | Medicine -- North Carolina -- Societies, etc. |
Subject Topical Other | Societies, Medical -- North Carolina. |
Description | After 1939 transactions published in the North Carolina Medical Journal |
Creator | Medical Society of the State of North Carolina. Annual Session. |
Publisher | Raleigh, N.C. : Medical Society of the State of North Carolina, 1891-1939. |
Repository | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Health Sciences Library. |
Host | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Date | 1915 |
Identifier | NCHH-16-062-0098 |
Form General | Periodicals |
Page Type | all; article |
Language | English |
Rights | This item is part of the North Carolina History of Health Digital Collection. Some materials in the Collection are protected by U.S. copyright law. This item is presented by the Health Sciences Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for research and educational purposes. It may not be republished or distributed without permission of the Health Sciences Library. |
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Sponsor | The North Carolina History of Health Digital Collection is an open access publishing initiative of the Health Sciences Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Financial support for the initiative was provided in part by a multi-year NC ECHO (Exploring Cultural Heritage Online) digitization grant, awarded by the State Library of North Carolina, and funded through the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA). |
Volume Number | 62 |
Page Number | 64 |
Health Discipline | Medicine |
Full Text | 64 NORTH CAROLINA MEDICAL SOCIETY. Manifestly a Relatively accurate estimate is practically impossible of securing, but it is well to remember in tliis connection that the number of habitues is limited to an extent at least by the amount of the available opiates, and the visible supply of narcotics would not, in the judgment of the Federal authorities, suffice to supply in excess of one-tenth of the maximum number mentioned above. As far back as the year 1866 Dr. Edward R. Squibb, testifying before a congressional investigating committee, stated that at that time not more than one-fifth of the opium imported into this country was needed for the legitimate demands of reputable medical practice, and the Government experts who have been more recently studying anew this whole proposition believe this estimate a fairly correct one for the present day. Be the number of narcotic habitues what it may, in North Carolina or in the Nation, it is manifest to us of the medical profession that a tremendous responsibility has rested in the past, and in no less a degree rests today upon the individual members of the guild in connection with the users of narcotic drugs. Just what shall be done for those now in the thralldom of narcotic habit is a problem that calls for immediate legislative action. I trust that an enlightened and quickened public conscience in this State will see to it that this important subject is carefully considered at the next session of the State Legislature with a view to making proper provision for these unfortunates. Certainly the State of North Carolina should provide for the examination and treatment of narcotic habitues as a wise and patriotic public policy; and it may seriously be questioned, in this connection, if the progressive State of Michigan goes a single step too far in having enacted legislation which provides that any citizen of Michigan who is addicted to the excessive use of intoxicating liquors or narcotic drugs may, after due examination, be declared incompetent by a probate judge, and a guardian of his or her person appointed. Is there a single community in North Carolina today where the putting into force of such a statute would not be fraught with beneficial results ? Would not such a measure, wisely enforced, conserve property rights of patient and long-suffering women and little children, besides exerting a most helpful influence in restraining the subjects of narcotic habit ? I here mention the vicarious sufferings of the opposite sex, gentlemen, not to convey the impression that the misuse of narcotics is solely a masculine errancy, for it is not, but especially for the reason that I believe the chief indirect sufferers from these habits to be women and children. Womankind, we well know, cares for and clings to fallen man much longer than men do to women when the conditions are reversed. When the State of North Carolina enacted its prohibition |
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Article Title | The Harrison Antinarcotic Law, And The Duty Of The Medical Profession |
Article Author | J. Howell Way |
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