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When taken in excess it is undoubtedly an evil, all moral sense disappears; the person addicted to the habit will commit any crime to obtain the drug, physically victims to the habit are to be known at once by their attenuated bodies, their wizened, yellow skin and their lethargic habit; Socially all family ties, friendship and those of ... are severed. Lekiran have been known to sell even their own children to obtain the drug.
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The effects of ... are much the same. Consumers are chiefly of every race. Chinamen also take the opium in the form of pills; those who are so fully employed that they have not time to indulge in sucking the drug, they indeed are too busy to go through all the tedious processes involved in smoking; to obtain the stimulant and sustaining effect of the drug they swallow or eat opium in the form of small pills. I have never heard of decoction being drunk.
Lately a practice has sprung up in this colony of injecting Morphine, one of the alkaloids of opium, subcutaneously.