Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 132, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 June 1916 — ENOUGH TO KILL 40 PERSONS [ARTICLE]

ENOUGH TO KILL 40 PERSONS

San Francisco "Fiend” Requires 30 Times as Much Dope as Ordinary Habitual. San Francisco, Cal—Twenty grains of cocaine and morphine a day. Enough to kill 40 men. And 80 times the amount the average dope fiend consumes. Fifteen years at it, too. This is the human dope marvel found by the State Board of Pharmacy in its combing of the San Francisco underworld. "Dopy Phil” Harris is his name. Thirty-four years his age and healthy add robust looking at that. The pharmacy board officials confess themselves dumbfounded. ."This man,is a marvel,” said Secretary Zeh of the pharmacy board today. “He consumes enough dope every day to kill 40 average men. He requires 80 times as much hop as an ordinary drug user consumes. Yet to look at him you’d think he had lived all his life on some baby’s malted milk. Take the dope away from him, though, for 48 hours and he would die in the next 24.