TY  - JOUR
T1  - OPium addiction and physical fitness
Y1  - 1929/06/22
N1  - 10.1001/jama.1929.02700510032012
JO  - Journal of the American Medical Association
SP  - 2102
EP  - 2102
VL  - 92
IS  - 25
N2  - The problem of the opium habit involves a number of apparently unrelated features. In the initiation of addiction, relief from pain has often been regarded as an important feature; in other instances the development of the pernicious habit appears to be associated with psychologic instabilities or unfortunate environmental influences. Consideration of such possibilities is obviously important in any constructive program intended to avert the misfortunes of the opium habit. As a recent writer1 has expressed it, the victim may become an antisocial, unmoral, self-centered savage who without hesitation may break any law.The treatment of addiction, on the other hand, and the prognosis for the person involved, are concerned with the physiology and pathology of the use of the opium alkaloids quite as much as with the social environment and mental outlook of the patient. Intoxication with some drugs or poisons produces bodily defects or functional perturbations that are
SN  - 0002-9955
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.1929.02700510032012
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1929.02700510032012
ER  -