Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 177, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 July 1912 — DRUG HABIT GAINS IN PARIS [ARTICLE]

DRUG HABIT GAINS IN PARIS

* Wholesale Degeneracy Threatens City, a Prominent Physician Asserts. Investigations following a recent succession of fatalities in the Quartier Latin have revealed that the drug habit has ’ gained on Parisians. In one store alone dope fiends buy no less than one hundred pints of cocaine and morphine every, week. So prevalent is the dope habit that a prominent physician declares he detects its victims by the score every time he takes a round of the cases. Ether is no longer fashionable, but especially in the artist quarters morphine is used recklessly. Even the uninitiated can detect those addicted to it in an evening’s stroll. Paris, in the opinion of this physician, is the most drug-cured city In the world, for while rich women of other capitals secretly indulge in various dangerous ways of stimulating their jaded forces, the dope habit in Paris has spread through every class until wholesale degeneracy is threatened. —Brooklyn Eagle.