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The Grip of the Drug Habit

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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Jul 14, 1909

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 36, No. 27.

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The Grip of the Drug Habit

THERE is little question that thousands of people in the United States have innocently become slaves to drug habits through this craving for relief, satisfied with chemicals of the potency and danger of which they were uninformed.
The history of such cases is pitiable. First, as poetically indicated by Thomas DeQuincey, the victim congratulates himself on having found a vest-pocket panacea for all the ills of the tired body and the harried mind.
It is only when the habit has irrevocably fastened its grip on both mind and body that the fetters begin to be felt, and the sad wreckages wrought by the drug to be demonstrated.—Atlanta Constitution.