Catharsis, non-irritating, 79 Cause of withdrawal symptoms, 38 Causes of failure in solving drug problem, 5 Clinics, drug, need for, under competent medical direction, 124 public, 135 Cocaine, habitual use of, 115 Committee appointed by Secretary of Treasury, report, 14 Complications, avoided by intelligent patients, 78 Conclusions of author, 40 Condition, another disease, relation of functional balance to, 92 drug patient’s, as index of successful treatment, 75 Considerations, fundamental, 11 Convalescence, and “after care,” 53 Coöperation of drug addict, factors which determine, 72 Cure of drug addiction, What constitutes? 76 “Cures,” basis of, 55 Custodial care and the honest addict, 28 Danger of restrictive legislation, 123 Dangers of belladonna, hyoscine, pilocarpine, etc., 80 Data, institutional, lack of, 58 Defectives and drug addiction, 16 Definition of term “narcotics,” 114 Deprivation, forcible, danger of, 53 Development of addiction stage, 29 Discontinuance of narcotic drug, difficulties of, 69 Disease, addiction, rational handling of, 61 drug addiction, nature of, 23 Documents, human, 137 Dosage, narcotic drug, in relation to withdrawal symptoms, 75 Doses, therapeutic, and toxic stage of normal reaction to, 29 Drug, narcotic, balance, 67 definite body need for, 37 Drugs, narcotic, and the physical condition established, 21 may afford pleasure, 3 legitimate use of, in peace and war, 114 prescribing and dispensing of, 100 relations of laws to, 95 Du Mez’s recent paper, 38 Education and training, 131 lay, medical and official, needed, 109 neglect of, and illicit traffic, 126 Efficiency, functional, nutritional and metabolic importance of, 92 Efforts, author’s early, 11 Elimination, competent, not measured in bowel movements, 81 of opiate, and cell tolerance, 46 Evils, chief, of present drug situation, 122 Exploitation, commercial, and its financial possibilities, 125 of physical suffering, 123 Facts concerning drug addiction, necessity for unbiased medical investigation of, 101 significant, 13 Fear, constant, addict lives in, 92 Function, inhibition of, 46 Gioffredi, investigation of, 26, 38 Handling, institutional and custodial, and certain types of addicts, 108 of criminal or vicious addict, 108 preliminary to withdrawal, 62 rational, of addiction disease, 61 Harrison Law, effect on medical profession, 96 reasons for failure of, 96 wise in purpose, 95 Hirschlaff’s experiments, 26, 38 History of medical addict, 140 Hyoscyamus, use of, 55 Ignorance, the harmful effects of, 127 Immunity to narcotic drugs, 4 Inefficiency, medical, 6 Infant, newly-born, and addiction disease, 24 Influenza and pneumonia in drug addicts, 86 Information, clinical, paucity of, 58