The hypoascorbemia - kwashiorkor approach to drug addiction therapy: a pilot study.

Drug addictions, like cancer, are terrifying conditions to the victims because of the feelings of hopelessness and abandonment generated by the rigors of and general failure of the orthodox "treatments." Although crude opium addiction has a very long history, the large-scale addictive use of morphine salts, in this country, is generally dated from their use on wounded Civil War soldiers. Following 1864, morphine addiction was realized to be an emerging socially significant problem in this country; therefore searches were instituted to find less addicting drugs. The year 1890 saw the introduction of heroin. For about five more decades, to the year 1912, nothing was done to stop the rising tide of morphine and heroin users in this country.. The realization of that fact prompted in that year the organizing of legal opiate clinics, not however, to treat the addict, only to support the user's habit in an attempt to stem the