Show BLAME PLACED ON physicians PHYSIC tS growth of drug habit in united states alleged to be due to opiates ordered in prescriptions that 99 per cent of all the cocaine and morphine manufactured in this country is IB used by persons who havo have formed the drug habit through physicians prescriptions la 13 the startling statement made by dr 1 L f P Ne kebler bler chief of the division of ot drugs department of agriculture this statement concerning tho the appalling growth ot of drug addiction in the united states was made by dr kebler in an address at washington before the american society for tho the study of alcohol and narcotics dr kehler la Is quoted by washington papers as having declared that thai drug using had increased per cent in the last 40 years and that american medical men were not discriminating enough in their uso use of opiates their pat patients lents tB ha said cail Is ci creating cating thousands ot of drug users every year it Is a very sad thing to say ay that our physicians are doing the greatest work in promoting tho the use of cocaine and morphine said tho the doctor state laws aro are not saving the public from tho the grip of the drug habit and tho the american public ts Is sinking tighter and tighter into the black abyss of tho the morphine and cocaine fiend tho the worst of it 11 to Is that the importation of opium into the tha country Is becoming larger and larger year by year I 1 have heard it said ori on reliable authority that 09 99 per cent of the co ca calno calne and morphine manufactured in this country la Is used by persons persona who haye have formed the habit through doctors prescriptions almost simultaneously with dr neb keb lera lees address dr J A patterson Patter sori at grand rapids michigan in a public statement said bald that 19 10 out of every 20 patients who conio come to an institution with which he Is connected tor for treat ment for the drug habit owe their downfall to physicians prescriptions |