Heroin is a favourite drug of Shanghai's criminal society and in many cases Is directly associated with criminal activities "here, Many a member of the city's underworld depends toa large extent on a powerful narcotic for the "courage" neces sary to commit crime. The narcotic the handmaiden of his unlawful enterprise, While the White drug is commonly smoked by Shanghai criminals of all races and both sexes, itis rarely used in other strata of society here. The Feason for its favour with the underworld is undoubtedly its cheapness—small packet can be purchased for only 20 "cents—and the low price ain is the result of a surplus: of the drug on the Shanghai market. addition it ts a very powerful narcotle: it is roughly eight times as strong morphine. Most of the former smokers of so-called red pills Shanghai have now changed to heroin suits their pocket-book and their vicious craving better than any other drug. Opium is still the favourite of the more well-to-do classes, (Of the persons arrested in Shanghai heroin addicts approximately. 50 er cent. have criminal records outside the narcotic field. Sull others are undoubtedly associated with the underworld although they may not have been arrested before, Prostitution and heroin addiction commonly go hand in hand, "Nix, Herald" Photo.
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