Project Gutenberg 2011-02-14 Public domain in the USA. 100 Towns, Charles Barnes 1862 Towns, Charles B. Habits that Handicap: The Menace of Opium, Alcohol, and Tobacco, and the Remedy Produced by The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive.) "Habits that Handicap: The Menace of Opium, Alcohol, and Tobacco, and the Remedy" by Charles B. Towns is a medical treatise written in the early 20th century. The work addresses the dangers of habit-forming substances, specifically opium, alcohol, and tobacco, and outlines a call for reform in how these drugs are prescribed and controlled. Towns provides an analysis of the social and physiological implications of addiction, highlighting the neglect in addressing these issues by the medical profession and society at large. The opening of the book presents a preface and introductory remarks that emphasize the pervasive and destructive nature of drug addiction, particularly as it relates to those initially seeking relief from pain. Towns advocates for a shift in medical practice—placing greater responsibility on physicians concerning the dispensing of harmful substances. He discusses the alarming statistics on drug use among the population, including medical professionals, and stresses the need for stringent regulations on drug distribution to prevent the widespread formation of habits. Through personal observations and experiences, Towns sets the stage for a broader examination of the connection between societal attitudes toward addiction, medical responsibility, and the urgency for a structured response to drug misuse. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Alcoholism Tobacco use Opium abuse -- United States RC Text Browsing: Drugs/Alcohol/Pharmacology Browsing: Health & Medicine Browsing: Sociology 397743 397752 2024-09-15T04:38:31.405718 2023-09-15T10:22:16.089454 text/html text/html 400801 2021-01-07T12:39:34 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 137944 2021-01-07T12:39:34 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 223000 2024-09-15T04:38:38.948164 application/epub+zip 226189 2024-09-15T04:38:34.157177 application/epub+zip 217920 2024-09-15T04:38:33.129174 application/epub+zip 506575 2024-09-15T04:38:42.694124 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 464665 2024-09-15T04:38:38.153144 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 368583 2022-09-16T07:53:31.890803 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 364504 364339 2024-09-15T04:38:30.785689 2023-09-15T10:22:15.536448 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 364123 2021-01-07T12:39:34 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 130365 2021-01-07T12:39:34 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 364114 2021-01-07T12:39:34 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 130329 2021-01-07T12:39:34 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 20449 2024-09-15T04:38:42.825122 application/rdf+xml 25486 2024-09-15T04:38:33.490173 image/jpeg 4748 2024-09-15T04:38:33.309177 image/jpeg 211734 2024-09-15T04:38:31.438704 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog