ABSTRACT
The general discussion of drug habits, especially with reference to the question whether an undue number of the medical profession are victims of this addiction, has aroused an interest which warrants further inquiry and renders discussion desirable, to bring out the facts whereon to base correct opinions. Lack of intelligence or of strength of purpose, or both, must be present, and it is generally true that victims of drug addiction are so defective in equilibrium or limited in intelligence as to be inherently prone to excess. The victim of drink or drugs, however, becomes a spectacle to gods and men, while the destruction wrought by other sensual gratifications is often thought to be due to a mysterious providence. The general medical officer of another large sanitarium found of all cases of drug addiction coming under his notice, thirty-one per cent were physicians. The sporting class and demi-monde are specially prone to drug as well as alcoholic excesses.
