Show OPIUM IN DIVERSE FORMS Devotees of the Drug Choose Various Ways of Obtaining Its Effects Consumers of opium are not all of the sl mo kind k Th There re are are re slaves of the pipe pip slaves of the syringe and v sla-v slave ed of the powder that Is swallowed to give s surcease surcease of pa pain n or of mental worry There are are re those who take the tho dru drug In the form of a medicinal preparation preparation preparation prep prep- such as laudanum paregoric and the extract of laudanum those who smoke it and inhale the fumes into the lungs and those who take hypodermic c injections of morphia The class the class the smokers smokers comprise comprise the l largest rg si number of victims Dr of the N New w York city ity hospital hospital hospit hos hos- pit pital l estimates estimates that fully tully O people In th that t city are re addicted to the opium habit in some form The annual sale of opium in Vermont Is Is equivalent according ing to the doctor to a grain for every adult In the tho state an amount obviously far greater than can be accounted accounted ac ac- counted counte l for by Its consumption for medicinal l purposes Some slaves of the drug take it regularly every day others have periodical sprees similar to those of th the alcohol drinker |