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Show USE OF NARCOTIC DRUGS INCREASING WASHINGTON, Sept. 12. Habitual use of morphine, cocaine, herolno and preparations containing other narcotic narcot-ic drugs has increased rapidly in the 'United Stntes within the last two years and a drastic anti-narcotic law must be enacted at this session of congress to check the wholesale spread of the habit These are the conclusions made public today by a 'special treasury investigating commit-1 commit-1 tee, It is estimated that at least 1,-500,000 1,-500,000 persons in the United States are drug addicts. |