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Two things are of particular note in this article.
The first is the assertion that drug addicts could be cured in a matter of five days. This is a reference to a drug addiction "treatment" advanced by Charles Towns, which consisted of imprisoning addicts and giving them a plainly poisonous concoction for five days. At the end of five days of "treatment" every addict so "treated" claimed they were cured, to avoid further "treatment." Follow-up studies conducted years later showed that, in fact, very few of the addicts had been cured by the treatment -- if any.
The second point is Mr. Towns assumptions about the root cause of drug addiction in the last paragraph -- which he attributes to the earlier use of tobacco.
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