INDEX Abnormalities, getting rid of, in preliminary stage, 83 Acidosis in opiate addiction, 48 Addict, criminal or vicious, handling of, 108 drug, as a surgical and medical risk, 85 coöperation of, 72 often unknown and unsuspected, 7 honest, and need of competent medical care, 109 and custodial care, 28 medical, personal history of, 140 mixed, 115 narcotic, failure to understand, 5 will coöperate and suffer, 6 Addicts, drug, accidental or innocent, 28 age of, 24 and influenza and pneumonia, 86 majority of, 17 often understand own cases, 7 what type or class become, 23 innocent and worthy, what shall we do with them? 129 narcotic, average individuals, 3 often men and women of high ideals, 3 worthy and innocent, problem of, 128 youthful, 125 Addiction, author’s definition of, 20 beginning stage of, 30 development of, 29 disease, author’s conclusions, 40 a chronic condition, 93 in newly born infant, 24 may afflict all classes, 19 mechanism of, 36, 41 rational handling of, 61 treatment of, and legitimate medical practice, 99 drug, a medical problem, 28 among soldiers, 117 and defectives, 16 a plea for broader consideration of, 156 and the average person, 17 as a sequelae of war, 120 contraction of, in the army, 118 in surgical cases, 85 medical problem of, 21 methods of treating, 50 origin of, 25 so-called specific, treatment of, 55 unsuspected, 26 viewpoint of physician afflicted with, 146 wrongly described, 14 established, stage of, 31 narcotic, a demonstrable disease, 59 a recognized menace, 4 classed as a vice or morbid appetite, 4 opiate, as a war problem, 117 complicated with cocaine, 3 picture wrongly painted, 2 Adequacy, metabolic and organic, relation to other disease conditions, 92 Administration, narcotic drug, regulation of, 65 “After Care” or convalescence, 53 Age of addicts, 24 American Medicine, human documents from, 137 Antidotal substance, 42 Any one liable to drug addiction, 8 Attempts at administrative and police control, 4 Attitude of drug addict, 71 of lawmakers to drug addiction, 102 of medical profession, 50 personal, of physician to drug addict, 70 to drug addicts, author’s unjust, 12 Auto-intoxication and autotoxicosis, 46 Balance, drug adequate, importance of establishing and maintaining, 92 narcotic drug, and minimum daily need, 66 and operative procedure, 92 necessity of maintaining, 67 Basis of success, 132 Beacon-light of hope for drug addicts, 14 Belladonna, use of, 55 Bellevue Hospital, early work in alcoholic and narcotic wards, 2 Care, custodial, and the honest addict, 28 Cases demonstrating presence of antidotal substance, 43