Show BLAME PLACED ON physicians 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 mor morphine p liane manufactured in this country is used by persons who havo have formed the drug habit through physicians ceans prescript prescriptions lons is tho the startling statement made by dr L F kebler chief of the division of at drugs depart ment of agriculture this statement concerning the appalling growth of drug addiction in the united states was made by dr kobler in an address at washington before the american society for the study of alcohol and narcotics dr kebler la Is quoted by washington papers as having declared that drug using had increased per cent lu in the last 40 years and that american medical men were not discriminating enough in their use of opiates their overindulgence overindulge to their patients he said to is creating thousands of drug users every year it is a very sad thing to say eay that our physicians are doing the greatest work in promoting the use of cocaine and morphine said the doctor state stata laws are not saving the public from the grip of the drug habit and the american public is sinking tighter and tighter into the black abyss of 0 the morphine and cocaine fiend the worst of it Is that the importation of opium ined the country la Is becoming larger and larger year by year I 1 have heard it sald said on reliable authority that 99 per cent of the cocaine and morphine manufactured in this country is used by harlohs who vvhs i C have formed the habit through doctors prescriptions almost simultaneously with dr keb lers address dr J A patterson ht at grand rapids michigan in a public statement said that 19 out of 0 every 20 patients who come to an institution with which ho he la Is connected for treatment for or the drug habit owe thear downfall down fali to physicians physic iano prescriptions |