DRUG ADDICTION

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From the standpoint of origin, addicts may be divided into two classes: pure dissipators and those whose addiction resulted from medication. The dissipators accidentally find that narcotics, especially opiates, have an agreeable effect on them, and they become addicted through indulging in quest of this effect. In medicinal cases the patients become addicted through the prescribing of physicians or by self-medication for some disease for which an opiate is apparently indicated. There has been a greater reduction in numbers of this type of patient than of the dissipators. The latter are more numerous, and in previous articles I have dealt chiefly with them The basis of the study here reported was a survey of the personality and life history of a selected group of 119 medical addicts. It was undertaken in order to determine the special characteristics of this class of cases both as to susceptibility to addiction and the

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