Author: Charles Barnes Towns

Charles Barnes Towns conducted experimentation with cures for alcoholism and drug addiction, and helped draft drug control legislation in the United States during the early 20th century. He published “Habits that Handicap” in New York City in 1915.

The Peril of the Drug Habit

By Charles Barnes Towns
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It is human nature to wish to ease pain and to stimulate ebbing vitality. There is no normal adult who, experiencing severe pain or sorrow or fatigue, and thoroughly appreciating the immediate action of an easily accessible opiate, is not likely in a moment of least resistance to take it.  (More…)