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Women Fight Grip of Drugs in New York Hearing
A score of fashionable women confessed to drug addiction before the Whitney joint legislative committee at City Hall. They described being bled by unscrupulous physicians and pushed into cures that failed, hoping for humane treatment as patients rather than outcasts. Witnesses detailed long heroin and morphine histories, the lure of stylish sanatoriums, and personal ruin from narcotics. The national committee for study and relief joined to aid victims and warned the issue could affect military efficiency if addicts enter the Army.
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