p. 16 | Drug-Taking Physicians by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Nov 26, 1912

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 39, No. 46.

Drug-Taking Physicians.

By Editor

The Century Magazine for October thinks that the percentage of physicians who are addicted to drugs is placed too high at fifteen per cent, and the writer thinks that not more than five per cent of the doctors are drug-taking doctors. But it even then declares that they are very dangerous, because the drug-taking doctor is always very sympathetic with the suffering, and is very likely to urge upon the patient the same drug that he himself uses to relieve his suffering. We suppose that in this drug-taking, however, alcohol and tobacco are not regarded—two of the most powerful drugs known.