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It seems that addiction to cocaine has become alarmingly prevalent among the negroes and the lower-class whites in certain sections of the South, so prevalent, indeed, that apothecaries who ordinarily carried a drachm of the drag as the stock on hand have increased the amount to ounces, and even to pounds. We learn that there is a locality in Chattanooga known to the police as “Cocaine Aliev. a den of vice and filth, extending for about four blocks, in which, as a citizen of Chattanooga writes, there “will be found at night about three or four hundred people, mostly black, but with a fair sprinkling of whites, all ‘snuffing1 cocaine and lying around in all conceivable attitudes and conditions. The local authorities have passed an ordinance forbidding the sale of cocaine except on prescription, but. unfortunately, it is difficult to prevent a prescription from being tilled repeatedly. so that one prescription can be made to serve the purposes of a horde of debauchees. It is probable that state legislation will bo required to put an end to this foul state of things.—-New York Medical Record.
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The Virginia Enterprise
Virginia, Minnesota, US
Fri, Dec 28, 1900
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