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Wednesday, October 31, 1973
The main drug of addiction was heroin, smoked mainly by direct
fume-inhaling or through cigarettes.
About half of the addicts had been addicted for less than 10
years, but 32 per cent had an addiction history stretching back 10 to 19
years.
About 70 per cent of the latter group had never received treatment,
but 42 per cent of the former group had been treated once.
The report says arrangements are being made to feed all registry
data into a computer so that annual tabulations can be produced quickly
and accurately.
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