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Show YOUR HEALTH I ev or n. h bishop. , . w Lit DOP The present hubbub over the di ug drafflc brings io mind the fact thai 8 great manv of us are drug addict 1 do not mean a large number ore taking COcalpO), morphine or !l,e di ugu, but the iiimi of 1 1 h have , lun.l which calls for a stimulant Kt more or le-i regular Intervals. "Headache powders." liver pills and alcoholic Imveruges some people peo-ple still drink the last are stimulants stimu-lants of the sort which do not affect one immediately but gradually dull l he nii v e.J The drug, while affording temporary tempor-ary relief, may mask the true source Ol tho pain and. lu acute mergen-cles, mergen-cles, prevent the physician from rendering ren-dering an accurate diagnosis A drug is. as h rule, a crutch to help the sufferer over a difficult situation, when used otherarjse, It become be-come u weapon turned agamst the user. One who constantly resorts to drugs will find that the svatem Is losing Its responsiveness and it requires re-quires a constantly larger dose. Many ordinary harmless rerue-vl rerue-vl lee when taken habitually will los-their los-their effectiveness. Iaxailvo drugs, as llrer pills, may be taken In large quantities until the bowels refuse to operate and the time will come when they aj o without effect. M iuv "headache powders' contain powerful hert depressants, o al ta: products and acotanllid. These drugs were first ihouglit to b- harmless, but many cases ol death from overuowp nnd from heart depzeeSlOB have proved them other-' w Ise For a nervous headache, res: and' sleep In a darkened room are sufficient suf-ficient without aid of drugs. Persons with attacks of "nerves" and sleeplessness often resort to opiates and sleeping powders. Though in some stages of disease, sleep induced in-duced by narcotic Is necessary to l.fe the sufferer from Insomnia who resorts to self-drugging is indulging In a dangerous practice. |