Show BLAME PLACED ON pia physicians ysia bans growth of drug habit in united states state alleged to be due dua to opiates ordered in prescriptions prescription that 99 per cent ot of all the cocaine and morphine manufactured in this country Is used by persons persona who have formed the drug habit through physicians prescriptions Is the tha startling statement made by dr L F kehler kebler chief ot of the division of drugs department ot of agriculture this a statement tat ement concerning the appalling growth of 0 drug addiction in ia the united states was made by dr kebler in an address at washington before the american society for the study of 0 alcohol and narcotics dr kehler kebler Is quoted by Wag washington hington papers as having declared that drug using bad increased per cent in the last 40 0 years and that american medical men were not ot discriminating enough in their use of opiates their overindulgence to their patients he said Is creating thousands of drug users ubera every year it la Is a very sad thing cosay to say that our physicians are doing tha thi greatest work in promoting the use ot of cocaine coraine and morphine said the doctor state laws are not saving the public from the grip of the tha drug habit and the american public Is sinking tighter and tighter into the black abyss ot of the morphine and cocaine alend the worst of it Is that the importation of opium into the country to Is becoming larger and larger year by year I 1 have heard it said on an reliable authority that 99 per cent of the cocaine and morphine manufactured in this country Is used by persons who have formed the tha habit through doc tors prescriptions almost simultaneously with dr keb lers lere address dr J A patterson at grand brand rapids michigan in a public statement said that 19 out of every 20 patients who come to an institution with which he be is connected for treatment for the tha drug habit owe their th clr downfall to physicians prescriptions |