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Show holdup is arranied the men who are to commit the crime may be nearly normal, Hut they are "charged up'' before be-fore they undertake the job. It has also developed that, while some headway has Into made, ' the health department has not yet begun to treat ail of the city's addicts. The reason is that thousands are obtaining drugs illegally. This practice, it is pointed out, will continue until there is international regulation. "We import im-port 470,000 pounds of opium into this country annually,'' says Dr. Copeland, "or ten times as much as any other country. About 03 per cent of this is sold illegally." By nationalities, the "registration shows that there are now 114 Italians under treatment; 30 Jews, 36 Eussians, 17 'Austrians, 23 Englishmen and 2 Scotchmen. Americans are in a vast majority. Ago groups show the following: Age. Male. Female 16 to 20 31 4 21 to 20 OSS 100 26 to 30 672 103 31 to 35 386 123 36 to 40 . . 194 83 41 to 50 123 42 51 to 60 30 12 Over 60 6 10 DRUG ADDICTION. In New York City a campaign of wide scope is under way to rehabilitate the drug addict. The city health department de-partment reports remarkable progress already, although the reclamation work has practically only started. The health officials, in undertaking its task, proceeds on the assumption that a narcotic user desires a cure. The first step is .the registration of victims, vic-tims, confidentially, of course. The patient pa-tient is then given treatment at a clinic and after he has been "taken off" tho drug altogether, is sent to a hospital for the purpose of restoring his physical phys-ical well being " building up tlae system." sys-tem." In his investigations in connection with this work, Health Commissioner Copoland has encountered some startling conditions. For example, ho has found that, as compared with gouging goug-ing in tho illegal drug traffic, ordinary profiteering 13 nowhere at all. One wealthy woman, a drug user, informed Mr. Copeland that she paid $1000 for nn eighth of an ounce of morphine. The statistics incidental to the registration, reg-istration, among other things, 6how tho assigned reason for addiction. Of 1SS6 addicts treated in the health department depart-ment clinic, thirty gave as the cause tho pleasure of tho sensation produced by the drug. Bad associations "was the leaning cause, auiucis naming it. Others were: Curiosity, 72; insomnia, 8; family trouble, 12; pain, 182; smoking smok-ing opium, 50; illness, 2S3; discouragement, discourage-ment, 3; alcohol, 7. Of the 2773 addicts registered, the health commissioner found, by occupation, occupa-tion, tho following division: 98 actors, 3 brokers, 14 btitlurs, 44 chauffeurs, 190 clerks, 19 conductors, - 18 cooks, 2S2 drivers, 33 electricians, 27 elevator operators, op-erators, 8 engineers, 97 factory workers, 195 housewives, 202 laborers, 28 laun-drymen, laun-drymen, 41 longshoremen, 71 machinists, machin-ists, 32 maids b' manicures, 36 mechanics, mechan-ics, lli merchants, 17 newsdealers, 13 nurses, 4 painters, 39 plumbers, plumb-ers, 44 porters, 30 printers, 3o salesmen, sales-men, 2 telegraphers, 15 venders, 13(3 waiters, 3 authors and 1 newspaper reporter. re-porter. Automobile accidents and crime in Xew York City are, in large part, laid at tho door of drugs. "There is no doubt," saya Dr. Copeland, "that many of tho automobile accidents on the city's streets arc due to tho fact that Hie drivers arc drug victims. Under Un-der the influence of drugs, they are not dependable; and if they have not a sufficient quantity, they are hardly responsible. ' ' It. is undoubtedly true, according to Dr. Copeland, that many of the gang holdups and robberies aro committed by drug addicts. When tho robbery or |