Science: Smart Dope Fiends

Drug addicts are the smartest inmates of Federal prisons, the Government figured last week. Public Health Service mental hygienists had studied the intelligence test ratings of the prisoners. Significant is the fact that 30 out of 100 dope fiends are above average intelligence. Of nonaddicts 18% rate above average, 17% defective. Only 10% of the addicts are defective.

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