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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, MAY 9, 1957.

Withdraw Symptoms

-ROBIN HUTCHEON

Whon a horoin addict suddenly cuts off smoking ho experiences what are called “withdrawal symptoms" nausea, fatigue, stomach pains, running ayos and noso. Tho pain sends some into a fit. À prison doctor who saw. Frank Sinatra playing the part of an addict in the film "The Man with the Golden Arm" soid "to got some idea of withdrawal symptoms you should go and soo that film". The picture above is Sinatra, undergoing "withdrawal symptoms".

CHAPTER FIVE-

to sit on the ground and weep some patients with cortisone. hysterically.

If this treatment were adopted

"SEE that girl over there," ing it three times a day. two days on remond without doctor later said it seemed that addiction.

said the doctor pointing She was a prostitute.

to a thin, scraggy woman with a marblo pallor and sagging eyelids.

He glanced at a file before him. "She's 32, believe it or not. She's one of our regular customers here. In 1956 she was quite pretty, but she's been on it for eight years and now she's going down hill."

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A senior Prisons official told on a wide scale it would become me that in Hongkong only a expensive. minority experienced violent Thus

In prison most have a withdrawal symptoms and Д chance of getting rid of thefr

A few miss this A leading Prisons Depariment death. Seven addicts have yet treatment of addiction at

because their doctor

present told me: "The most died in prison this year.

is undertaken purely drugs, most are showing signs Europeans suffered more drastic opportunity

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[And with symptoms than Chinese,

a Chinese newspaper from are known ng

necessarily important thing is rehabilita

relatively negative combatting Another prostitute, oged 32, drawal symptoms".

The Prisons official thought a directly connected with drug tion. It is essential when they reported recently the discovery standpoint of

too short, had been spending 910 a

two days in physical symptoms. day

in Central reason

that taking) is I saw a man

a lose their craving, to help them of 12 bodies in doctor tha huck

hesitate

This must be accompanied 0 11

would for 15 been

to back on their feet or they go public lavatories in the Colony His eyes although the period of addiction describe any as "cured until back to their old ways. I know they are also said to be addicts.) by something else. Prison in this state, years, and a 45-year-old house-

inmates half closed in pain, his of

Hongkong

had returned to the

"A common cause of death in. long, the he wife had been spending sa eyelids swollen, and his head might have been

lot who really want to be

Colony is community and had shown he cured only there is no way to

pneumonia, a strange angle. degree of addiction was small. day and had been taking it for

wan bent at

Addlels have no resistance to Possibly she was Some are so painfully afficind

drugs, help, He added: "But the medical could stay away from

doctor estimates

and in 32 years.

the cold winter months have to be sent to people are rather baffled by ft. One prison

they file In 48 hours. stared by her father; that they I of n

who

These "withdenwal 10 most enses however im- that pilson treatment has cured

you began it under their father's hospitul."

symptoms" begin as early as 12 prisoned addicts have to under- less than five per cent, influence in their early teens,

hours after the last dose and

treatment "tapering of

Involves dosing Most of the women standing become

with much more which very in front of me were victims of noticeable in the next two to gradually smaller quantities of the boom that heroin has three days,

Bello Donn (deadly nightshade) This linctured und

opium. enjoyed in the last few years.

relieves stomach pains, nausea The main symptoms are acute and vomiting and counters the stomach pains, extreme nausea pi This treatment usually and fatigue. Some go into a lasis about eight days and state of fit which resembles an begins with about three doses a

manage apoplexy. They also are unable day and is gradually reduced.

be right spid have and many

cost is

kind swallow

but negligible

Queen Mary tlon but this is a treatment diarrhoea,

time Some have running eyes and

Some have been known Department doctor, is treating the prospect for the majority.

Here, in prison, they get treatment to rid them of their addiction. About 25 per cent of the female prison population and about 40-55 per cent of the

population prison

The girl stood at the end of a line of about 20 women, dressed in white drill prison clothes. They were standing around the consultant's desk in Laichikok prison, somo make

stained adults, through smiling

receive teeth, some with pigtails who looked no more than 16 and largely because, by the giggled like schoolgiris, some they reach prison after one or nose. looking more alive.

dead than

"Here, take a look at some of these cases," the doctor said, passing over a record book.

I read of a girl of 27 who

had had a miscarriage ut 20 and had been on heroin for the following years, spending $15 inhal

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"And I think with proper rehabilitation a lot of them can be cured. I think it is worth wille

the concentrating on younger age groups between 20

If it is not. it will be lost in the hugo somewhere aggregato of pain, suffering and misery that abounds in this Colony,

There is possibly more of it to the square mile here

"Look what it does see that old chap over there," FREE to return

he pointed to a small nuggets man who had been a heroli all leave und 40, Thus, practically

and eplum addict for 15 years. than in any other part of the But "Those over 40 who prison rid of the craving,

are "He's lost a lot of weight since world. they return to a community chronic oplum addicts and he took to heroin. He used to What more is neetied and that offers them no hope of switch to heroin are hopeless," weigh 170 lbs. Now he weighs how should Hongkong go

But before discussing, the 90 lbs," the doctor said. redemption.

about it?

tomorrow's schemes being Ilongkong offer various

the

articlo - the last' in this discharged prisoner? A advocated

sories — senior Polico the problem of herein addiellon in rehabilita this Colony it is worth looking cffect of small at the long-term

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they knock it off they put on officers, social wolfare weight tremendously. One girl officials, Prisons officers, Hospital, according to a Health responsive minority. Relapse is oddiellen upon the individual at Lalchitok put on, 20 lbs in doctors, and others give their

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IT'S THE MULTI-MILLION

DOLLAR QUESTION FOR

A DISILLUSIONED PUBLIC

MASURANSFONDAMENTEMENTE LA STRANACAKRAVARTETIKA

Harriet

MIE multi-million dollar

the out- van Hom, question is: "Are the standing radio and television said: "Let's just pay critic, Quiz shows on the love!?" the Quiz shows are controlled, And the answer is, depend- not fixed." ing on whom you talk to: "Not exactly ...maybe a little ... sometimes rig- ged and almost always rehearsed."

Miss von Hom points out that collusion with contestants denied by all the networks,

is

"To hear the producers tell, every programerie is a3 cleani The great American public is and honourable as the final disillusioned.

examinations at a theological For months the Quiz pro- seminary...but malcontents have gumes have rocketed to peak exited from shows muttering popularity, so that en estimated darkly that the whole thing was 50,000,000, who watch them night a fraud." after might have thought that There are several suits pond- they had an amazing army of ing against TV companies. geniuses in their midst.

They have seen Charles van Doran answer the most involved and intricate questions, on history, English literature, music, baseball and medicine,

Controlled

happens. To maintain audience

interest they want their · star contestants to keep winning, and they are careful not to ask them questions which they think they cannot answer.

six weeks,

"I've told many of them who "When they're on drugs they (Copyright Strictly. Reserved) come to this surgery for treat lose their appetite, portly ment that that's what it is and because the drug tolls their they say yes, they know, but appellte und partly because they they can't keep away from the spend all the money they have drug.

Life becomes on drugs. "They took it initially to cure long search for the stuff, sickness. If they stop taking it "It sickness only returns, so they

go on.

"I say unequivocally herolu addiction will cause premature

WHAT ABOUT BRITAIN 7

THIS IS WHY WE'RE HONEST

TER Black writes: I asked PETER

John Irwin, who produces ITV's The 64,000 Question, a sympathetic challenger would be given en casier ride,

He said: "No. Once you start that you're playing God, and that's a very hard role to play. Obviously you can make t shrewd guess about a challen- ger's range of knowledge when your auditice him; you een tell where his weak spots are. But it's just a matter of luck whether the questions lilt his weak spot. The questions are picked by experts work-

with the encyclopaedia and our own

Lead Sheila better. She meets them every Tues day and they

tiruugi

ing

The one big ang producers face in the "control" of their

tho questions programmes is a mentni black selected to out by one of the contestants make BUTC under the strain of the television that (a) cameras and the gaze of the they're a fair, studio audience. This has thorough test of knowledge, happened several times.

and (b) not The awful truth is that ofien technical a manner that the not genuine. The dialogue and then. even the apparent ad-libbing is audience wouldn't understond

John Brwin framed in

60

chil-chat between the Master of "You have to think of tha!-

all, Ceremonies and the contestant after

entertaining The is frequently written before- audience is your first job. hand by staff writers,

"We've got the integrity of When a celebrity, particularly and it would be dama silly to the encyclopaedia behind us, a Hollywood or Broadway per fool about with it. Honesty is conality, appears on a Quiz pro- our best practical policy. It's our

une the whole

thing has easiest policy too. Once you usually boon rehearsed carefully started trying to control the weeks beforehand.

would you programme where Competition among networks is so keen that a prize of $64,000

stop?

"Obviously I, as producer, no longer considered traordinary.

Want appealing challengers to stay in. Look at the audience I'd have had for Barrie Lord, answering the 64,000 question at .13 years old. But he went down

A dancer, Miss Dale. Loguo is suing the programme The Big Surprise for $100,000. She claims that she was deliberately given a question that she couldn't anewer T

and thus lost $10,000.

Spreading

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so cager to on the 32,000 question. Just hard Bnance the big Quiz shows luck. He knew the right answer, that the notwork can give away thought it couldn't be that easy, The indiscreet Miss Logue $100,000 every week and still and changed his mind." Buys: "Why, it was the same make money from its huge question that I muffed during advertising revenue.

the warm-up before the show," It is reported; that plotting Millions of people are coming and controlling shows started to the conclusion that most of with Groucho Marx's You Bet the shows are not fair.

Your Life because it was on Alm

THEN during the past few weeks they've Beca the amazing Robert Strom, the ten- year-old "Pocket Einstein" win It is now revealed that there cok because Marx needed five prizes totalling. £70,000..

aro careful rehearsals before fast jokes per interview. They have seen a beautiful each big Quiz, Coulcstants are hikode, Joyce Brother, tale couched to specialise on a certain

the rigging begon. home £20,000 after answering subject cod swot it up.

with Groucho or not it has car- questions on boxing that would baffle Harry Carpenter/

How have these winners done

Whether

"The Quiz proklucard will con- tainly spread to other pro code, if you press them, hard, grammos, but rigging is an ugly": that they have between 70 and word in the television industry, 80 perccos pontrol of wins Let's Jurb any control.

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reduces their resistance and lots of them tend to acquire other diseases, The physical and moral results are appalling and they undergo a progressive degeneration, девеление

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"It also tends to rulo nervous system, At the craving singe they undergo pro- gressive mental deterioration. They lose interest in what is going

and they show Intellectual deficiency and lose self-respeel. They become

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untrustworthy and unreliable.

far 1s their physical deterioration is concerned, they become wasted, thin and fatigued. In this state they be come susceptible to illness arl particularly to tuberculosis," Doctors warn that it

La possible to develop a tolerance for heroin by Laking it regularly for a week. This is followed by the craving stage Inside

month. Heroin is probably one of the Colony's greatest

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