{"product_id":"2940157828370","title":"Health: Habits that Handicap(Annotated)-The Menace of Opium, Alcohol, and Tobacco, and the Remedy","description":"CONTENTS\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER PAGE\u003cbr\u003eI THE PERIL OF THE DRUG HABIT 3\u003cbr\u003eII THE NEED OF ADEQUATE SPECIFIC TREATMENT FOR THE DRUG-TAKER 27\u003cbr\u003eIII THE DRUG-TAKER AND THE PHYSICIAN 46\u003cbr\u003eIV PSYCHOLOGY AND DRUGS 61\u003cbr\u003eV ALCOHOLICS 76\u003cbr\u003eVI HELP FOR THE HARD DRINKER 87\u003cbr\u003eVII CLASSIFICATION OF ALCOHOLICS 113\u003cbr\u003eVIII THE INJURIOUSNESS OF TOBACCO 140\u003cbr\u003eIX TOBACCO AND THE FUTURE OF THE RACE 162\u003cbr\u003eX THE SANATORIUM 174\u003cbr\u003eXI PREVENTIVE MEASURES FOR THE DRUG EVIL 194\u003cbr\u003eXII CLASSIFICATION OF HABIT-FORMING DRUGS 215\u003cbr\u003eXIII PSYCHOLOGY OF ADDICTION 227\u003cbr\u003eAPPENDIX 265\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHABITS THAT HANDICAP\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHABITS THAT HANDICAP\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER I\u003cbr\u003eTHE PERIL OF THE DRUG HABIT\u003cbr\u003eIt is human nature to wish to ease pain and to stimulate ebbing vitality. There is no normal adult who, experiencing severe pain or sorrow or fatigue, and thoroughly appreciating the immediate action of an easily accessible opiate, is not likely in a moment of least resistance to take it. Every one who has become addicted to a drug has started out with small occasional doses, and no one has expected to fall a victim to the habit; indeed, many have been totally unaware that the medicine they were taking contained any drug whatever. Thus, the danger being one that threatens us all, it is every man's business to insist that the entire handling and sale of the drug be under as careful supervision as possible. It is not going too far to say that up to the present time most drug-takers have been unfairly treated by society. They have not been properly safeguarded from forming the habit or properly helped to overcome it.\u003cbr\u003eIt has been criminally easy for any one to acquire the drug habit. Few physicians have recognized that it is not safe for most persons to know what will ease pain. When an opiate is necessary, it should be given only on prescription, and its presence should then be thoroughly disguised. A patient goes to a physician to be cured; consequently, when his pain disappears, he naturally believes that this is due to the treatment he has received. If the physician has used morphine in a disguised form, the patient naturally believes that the cure was effected by some unknown medicine; but if, on the other hand, he has received morphine knowingly, he realizes at once that it is this drug which is responsible for easing his pain. If he has received it hypodermically, the idea is created in his mind that a hypodermic is a necessary part of the treatment. Thus it is clear that the physician who uses his syringe without extreme urgency is greatly to be censured, for the patient who has once seen his pain blunted by the use o","brand":"Angela Rowling","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47171539501296,"sku":"2940157828370","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940157828370_p0.jpg?v=1764103807","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940157828370","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}