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| + | Harry Anslinger later claimed that as a 12 year old boy, he witnessed a scene that affected his life. He reports hearing the screams of a morphine addict that were silenced only by a boy returning from a pharmacist to supply the addict with more [[morphine]]. Anslinger was appalled that the drug was so powerful and that children had ready access to such drugs. | ||
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| + | This experience did not stop Anslinger, while acting as the Commissioner of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, from authorizing a druggist near the White House to fill a morphine prescription for an addicted [[Joseph McCarthy|Senator Joseph McCarthy]] as part of an effort to help the Senator end his [[heroin]] addiction.<ref>[Drugs & Washington, D. C., by Maxine Cheshire, from the Home Journal, Dec 1978, Vol. 195, pp. 62, 176, 178, 180, 182, morphine ref. p. 180. See also "The Murders" by Harry Anslinger p 182.]</ref> | ||
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Revision as of 02:54, 14 September 2014
 Harry Anslinger    | |
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| Born | May 20, 1892 |
| Died | November 14, 1975 (Age 83) |
Background
Harry Anslinger later claimed that as a 12 year old boy, he witnessed a scene that affected his life. He reports hearing the screams of a morphine addict that were silenced only by a boy returning from a pharmacist to supply the addict with more morphine. Anslinger was appalled that the drug was so powerful and that children had ready access to such drugs.
This experience did not stop Anslinger, while acting as the Commissioner of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, from authorizing a druggist near the White House to fill a morphine prescription for an addicted Senator Joseph McCarthy as part of an effort to help the Senator end his heroin addiction.[1]
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- ↑ [Drugs & Washington, D. C., by Maxine Cheshire, from the Home Journal, Dec 1978, Vol. 195, pp. 62, 176, 178, 180, 182, morphine ref. p. 180. See also "The Murders" by Harry Anslinger p 182.]
