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Novesber 11,1927

Dector Carlton Simon
50 EB S8th Street
New Tork —e

Dear sastae Simon:

i am pleased witis your report on the radio talk ok the article

you published in the Police Journmle i think that the medical _
soutas gion should not link itself with prepaganda that apparently —
= its object the moking of ee of
otherse

As to the ‘Beronbee I did not or time ‘veld you before that
while in New York 1 vieited the narootio headquarters, beth

federal and city, and they seemed very much enamored with ite The
eity people insisted on my going over to Welfare Island, which I
dide Warden Schleth was very courteous and also very emphatic about
the virtues of Narcosanue I looked through tho wards with Doctor
Scheid, but regrained from expressing any opinion to them as to the ~
wirtues of thié druge 1 told Schleth it would not be scientifie

for me to do so on what £ had seen and this made him leughe He
seems to think that all destors are foolae I, however, complimented
Sehleth on his management of the plese and wrote him a letter when

I came hom thanking him for hie cowrtesiese It is my opinion that
he is treating addicts better now than he did before but this

da because the treatment before was abomineblee I, however, did
not tots him thise

I visited federal headquarters after + dense Sehleth and told them

that in my opinion Nercosen was just plein “eold turkey" but that
Sehleth was getting better results than he formerly got because
ee oe ee ee
time a doctor came nears

Whether Sehleth will be favorable to me te be on the somnittes T

 
 

the investigating committees It is my opinion thet ig such a ys
committee is appointed the matter should be handled as follows:
Phere should be # reddish pa the color of Hareosan, and known
to be entirely innocuouse The patients that come in should be
taken in order, one given this drug end one given narcosans In
all ether respects they should be treated exactly the semes Some
competent person should make observations on them, and even the
nurses in the ward should not know which were getting Narcosen
and which were getting the other preparations Ore would be entireiy
futile te treat some patients with Jarcosan and some with, say the
Towne-Lambert treatment or the hyoseine treatment becauso it is
doubtful what effeot these treatments have, and you went to check
Narcesen egninat the “eold turkeys. j trontnonte

  
 

Schleth told me that 10% of the sareeenn eases had returned for
trentuent against 70% previously, but he has not taken account

of the fact that the 10% covers only a period of about fourteen
months whereas the 70/4 gos back over yoarse

With kindest rogerdss 7
Sincerely yours,

Lkeng | ficou