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Show RECOIlis STSIE GHARGEOF ADDICTS Secretary of State Health Board Moves to Help Victims Vic-tims of Liquor. Recommendation that the state of Utah make provision for treating "addicts" "ad-dicts" in its state mental hospital, wi!) be made to the governor in his biennial report by Dr. T. B. Beatty, secretary of the state board of health. Dr. Beatty takes the stand, as other physicians of the country have, that drunkards and dope fiends are mentally diseased and should be given mental as well as other treatment the same as any other siek person. He argues that the place to treat these victims of liquor and drugs is in the state hospital, and he will urge that the legislature take action which will provide for this sort of treatment for the unfortunate victims of alcohol and, dxugs in this state. The doctor has written to California, where, he understands, ' 1 addicts ' ' are treated in the state mental hospital, for information on their laws, that ho may make suggestions as to how the laws here may be changed to provide for treatment of these unfortunates in the state hospital. "It is criminal for the governmental authorities to take from those unfortunate unfor-tunate addicts the drugs which they crave, and then make no provision for treatment and cure of them," Baid the doctor. "It is also dangerous, for, deprived de-prived of their 'dope,' they will go to any extremes to get it even would commit murder and other high crimes just to satisfy their cravings. For the protection of the people of the state, as well as for the protection and care of the unfortunate addicts, the state should make provision for treating them. ' The liquor appetite can be cured. There is an absolute antidote for the taste for alcohol, and the drug habit may be successfully handled also, hut some provision should be niadc for handling han-dling these things. It is the duty of the state to make such provisions. |