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Show CfflE CAUSED BY USE DF DRUG Long Jail Term Best Method Meth-od When Special Care Is Lacking CHICAGO. June 24 A cure oi morphinism mor-phinism would decrease criminality, according to C Edouard Sandoz, medical med-ical director of our municipal court of Boston. "Morphinism, In a majority of our morphine causes, Is the main determining de-termining ..ui-. ..; criminality," Mr. Sandoz declared, in a report published publish-ed in the Journal of the American Institute In-stitute of Criminality He gav tiir proportion arrests of morphinists, for violation Of the drug law to arrests' of morphinists for other causes as one 1 to three and one-tenth. "Applying I his proportion to th. 4", Boston municipal court cases of 1$S0 for violation of the Dj uB Law. we I should have busides, about S3" arrests -of morphinists for other off uses, a to- , tal of 1.0b2 arrests," he said. "Weaning is possible in practically every case. We have n medlcnl In- I suuiuon in wnicn nuuicix witnout means ar" kept long enough to have i a chance to be 'cured' Under these conditions, a sentence of several months, the longer the better, is thc best tiling that can happen In them. There I- need of a s r i . I Institution. "Almost all our cases are below par from the point of view of economic ef- j Clclency. Now, since morphine Is more i essontlal for addicts than anything) I else, there Ls no practicable alterna- j tlve for those who do not have the i ! means and do not get cured, but to turn to illegitimate ways of getting! money. "A trait which Is remarkable in our 1 morphinists is their esprit de corps. "In spite of the widely spread be-1 be-1 lief that many alchollcs would take I to morphine after prohibition. I have! I not yet seen such a case. ; "The remedy can be summed up ln j I the simple formula "Control the drug I control the addict." j |