Medicine: Narcosan Rejected

Two years ago Alexander Lambert, expert physician, endorsed narcosan (TIME, Dec. 27, 1926). He believed it a merited, specific cure for drug addiction. That was after it had been given a thorough tryout in Manhattan's correctional hospital.

Last week Dr. Lambert was obliged, and cheerfully so, to admit that he had erred two years ago. As head of the checking-up committee he had discerned that sly drug fiends had pretended cure to escape detention and get their dope in full freedom. But by prying, during the past few months, into their skulking...

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