RT Journal
A1 BLAIR TS
T1 NArcotic drug addiction as regulated by a state department of health
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1919
FD May 17
VO 72
IS 20
SP 1441
OP 1445
DO 10.1001/jama.1919.02610200013005
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1919.02610200013005
AB By an act of the Pennsylvania General Assembly, session of 1917, concurrently with the United States Congress, the Harrison Narcotic Law, to all intents and purposes, was placed on the statute books of the commonwealth. Under the police power of the state, the department of health regulates the possession, etc., of certain narcotic drugs now under the control of the United States Bureau of Internal Revenue as relates to interstate commerce. But special provisos in the Pennsylvania act make it unlawful to supply the named drugs in any quantity whatsoever to known habitual users thereof, except in pursuance of a prescription of a duly licensed physician or dentist, and physicians may, under proper regulations, and after a physical examination of an addict and a report in writing, take addicts under treatment, in good faith, for the purpose of curing the habit, and not merely for the purpose of satisfying a