Stage of study, preliminary to withdrawal, 63 preliminary, abnormalities in, 83 Stages of addiction development, 29 Stool, “typical,” of Towns treatment, 79 Study, clinical and laboratory, lack of, 91 of patient, essential as preliminary to withdrawal, 63 Substance, antidotal, to opiate, and bodily protection, 42 Suffering, physical, and drug addiction, 20 Survey of the situation, 122 Terms that should be eliminated, 9 Testimony of Whitney Committee, deductions from, 134 Theories, author’s wrong, 12 Tolerance, explanation of, 38 increased, stage of, 30 Traffic in narcotic drugs, illicit, 103 Treatment, importance of regulating intervals of narcotic drug administration in, 65 rational, of addiction disease, 61 so-called specific, 55 specific, author’s disbelief in, 80 “Underworld” and desperate necessity of addict, 28 Use, legitimate, of narcotics in peace and war, 114 Valenti’s studies, 26, 38 Veterans, Civil War and drug addiction, 24 Views, personal and legal, of drug addiction, 137 Whitney Committee. Hearings, testimony of, 107 Withdrawal accompanied by use of various drugs, 51 forcible, and suicide, 53 stage of, 62 sudden, 53 symptoms, 35 Withdrawing of opiate simply one stage, 92 PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Transcriber’s Notes Errors and omissions in punctuation have been fixed. Page 27: “physicial sufferings” changed to “physical sufferings” Page 39: “Deutch. med” changed to “Deutsch. med” Page 66: “normally functionating individual” changed to “normally functioning individual” Page 76: “continued maintainance” changed to “continued maintenance” Page 100: “oppose as illegitimatc” changed to “oppose as illegitimate” Page 101: “he is forccd” changed to “he is forced” “physical nced” changed to “physical need” “should mcet” changed to “should meet” “would be eagcrly” changed to “would be eagerly”