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Show II NARCOTISM IN UTAH j AND ELSEWHERE f The drug habit has grown to large proportions In Salt Lake City, according accord-ing to the Telegram, which says edi-1 edi-1 torially: 1 I "Salt Lake has been receiving more , than its share of opium. One drug fiend, after taking treatment against ' the habit and finding freedom, at least, temporarily, told the editor that ho was approached by three men, all of them offering him 'dope.' They knew he was a regular user and they were peddling It for the agents hlgh-' hlgh-' cr up who reap enormous dividends 1 off this vicious traffic. "It has gotten so bad that one of Salt Lake's greatest doctors told the writer a few days ago that he seriously seri-ously believed the harm was so extensive ex-tensive it would be better to do without with-out tho use of opium, cocaine and morphine altogether. The good could not atone Tor the bad, he declared. Yet when one druggist was caught repeatedly breaking the law the county coun-ty attorney's office allowed him to I escape punishment by making a blunder blun-der in a complaint and refusing to draw up a new one. Tho only person punished for Vb shameful crime havo been a few ignorant foreigners who had no Influence to save them." Narcotism is a disease which presents pre-sents to the American peoplo an evil quite as serious as that of alcoholism. One authority places the number of drug fiends in this country at 3,700,-000. 3,700,-000. One of our local officers was questioned ques-tioned as to the extent of the drug habit In Ogden. Ho said the number num-ber of victims is greater than any one not in the police service would estimate. The most uncontrollable and irrational of the drug fiondBt are I the users of cocaine. J nn |