They had reached the point of hallucinations, had been confined in an institution and, now, were offering to do their part to help us stop the illegitimate use of these drugs.

Our inspector found them to be a middle-aged couple; they lived in Colorado. A doctor had prescribed an amphetamine for the woman because she was overweight; she liked the sensation it produced and got her husband to try the drug too.

The both started taking it; went to doctors for more and more prescriptions. They apparently secured an inexhaustible source based on these prescriptions. For several weeks they each took as many as 200 tablets (10 times the usual dosage) a week. They stayed home during this time and only left to buy more drugs or get a little food. They lived on soda pop and ice cream because the drug took their appetites. They slept only 3 or 4 hours a night. Then they got the. illusion they were FBI agents and had secret conferences with the President and J. Edgar Hoover. They spent their days and nights sitting at the kitchen table discussing plots and plans based on their phantasies.

The extended binge eventually made them physically ill and they went to a doctor; they didn't tell him what they had been doing, but they did quit taking the drug abruptly. They said they believe they slept for 2 days sitting at the kitchen table. They went back to the doctor who put them in the hospital.

The hallucinations continued for several weeks after stopping the drug. Their strange actions resulted in their being sent to a mental hospital; shock treatments and other psychiatric therapy straightened them out and they were released as mentally competent. The course of events these people described were confirmed by friends and the doctors who treated them. The inspector observed that they both looked debilitated and nervous when he saw them about a year after they had first embarked on the use of amphetamines.

We ran down the store where they got the supply, prosecuted them criminally. The corporation was fined $1,500. Each of two employees were fined $500 or a total fine of $2,500.

Senator DANIEL. Any license taken away?

Mr. LARRICK. The corporation was placed on probation for a year and each of the individuals required to report to the probation officer each for a year. In all of these cases, sir, we don't issue any licenses. In every case that is terminated under this act that involves an illegal act under the State law, just as soon as we have completed our action in the Federal court we make a summary of the evidence, tell the outcome of the case and transport it, send it to the appropriate State authorities so they can take any action they wish.

We do not recommend to the State what action they take. We think it is for them to decide.

Senator DANIEL. Those druggists would be licensed under State law?

Mr. LARRICK. That is right.

Senator DANIEL. Will you place the other statements in the record and I appreciate your appearance here today. (The document referred to is as follows:)

AMPHETAMINES

The Bureau of Narcotics informed us they had investigated a lead to an alleged narcotics addict but found the drug involved was really amphetamine. It appeared that a woman in Indiana was receiving this drug by mail from another town in the same State. The woman's sister said the addict was receiving 1 or 2 shipments a week of 100 to 200 tablets (5-milligram) each. Her husband said a doctor had first prescribed the drug about 3 years previously but after a month he took her off amphetamine and refused to give her any more prescriptions for it. He said the drug made her stay awake all night. She became nervous, irritable, threw things at him, and, on several occasions, threatened to kill him and commit suicide.

She had feelings of anxiety and often kept their young son home from school because she feared to be alone. She neglected her housework and sold some of the furniture, presumably to buy drugs. She wrote some bad checks and kept

the family in a turmoil with her irresponsible acts.

When the inspector questioned her, she admitted taking about 75 milligrams of the drug a day, about 5 times the usual dosage doctors prescribe for reducing. (70-849 L: Terminated, March 23, 1954. Owner-2 years' probation.)

BARBITURATES

Police in a town in Georgia told us they had arrested a man who had been involved in an automobile accident while under the influence of barbiturates. He had these drugs and amphetamines on him at the time of the accident. We learned that this man, a middle-aged bachelor, first had barbiturates administered to him when he was in a hospital. Later he used them to quiet his nerves after a protracted drunk. He bought most of them on prescriptions. Later he used amphetamines to wake him up from the sluggishness produced by the barbiturates. Then he would take barbiturates to soothe the jittery feeling produced by the amphetamines.

Information was obtained that indicated the source of this man's drugs; another complaint involved the same outlet and a case was developed.

(2-490 L: Terminated, April 12, 1954. Corporation, $500, 1 year probation; manager, $200, 2 years probation; employee, $150, 2 years probation; employee, $50, 2 years probation; total, $900.)

We received this letter of complaint via the FBI and Narcotics Bureau. A woman in North Carolina wrote to report that her husband had been using barbiturates for 2 years. He had become so dangerous she and the children returned to her father to live. She asked that he be sent to a Federal institution for cure. Investigation revealed he had got started on barbiturates in a hospital for mental diseases. He has married twice before his present marriage. The second wife died from a gunshot wound which the coroner decided was suicide; however, under the circumstances there was a lurking fear that it might have been murder. He married his present wife and shortly afterward the civic welfare agencies sent him back to the mental hospital. After a month he was released and managed to get himself legally declared to be "mentally competent."

He took up using barbiturates and would take up to 15 grains a day. He would lie in bed all day. He often beat his wife and 15-year-old adopted son. Frequently he was in trouble for making obscene remarks to women and young girls. He was never able to hold a job and the family depended on welfare agencies and relatives. After the third wife left him, the welfare agencies arranged foster homes for the six children.

In 1953 the man beat a friend and fellow addict to death with sadistic violence. He had a box of barbiturate capsules on him when arrested. Two different taxi drivers were located each of whom had driven the man to get the drug the day before the murder, which occurred a few hours after the last trip for barbiturates. (59-085 L: December 7, 1953. Owner fined $500.)

A police officer and a man in Minnesota informed us that the man's daughter, 28 years old, had been using barbiturates to excess for about 4 years. She had been under the care of various doctors who, though they prescribed barbiturates ini

tially, soon learned that she could not handle them properly and refused to furnish her any more. She had taken overdoses several times and had to be hospitalized as a result. The father and her husband were anxious to stop her source though they did not know exactly where it was.

About the same time this information was received, neighbors of the family asked our help in correcting the hazard the addict was creating. She had been found unconscious in the street several times and had driven her car over one of the neighbor's lawns; people feared for their children's safety in this situation.

It developed the addict often used a taxicab, and we were thus able to locate one of her sources. She also telephoned a drugstore, represented herself to be a well-known doctor in the city, and ordered a large amount of barbiturates. The pharmacist suspected something was wrong and this led to her arrest.

Our inspector interviewed her in jail. She said she had taught school until 3 or 4 months previously, but resigned because her addiction made teaching impossible. She had obtained her drugs over the years by any and every devious means she could think of. She admitted she had had several automobile accidents while intoxicated with drugs. (20-137 L: Terminated August 26, 1953. 3 years.)

Owner fined $600, probation for

In 1953 a woman in Seattle died from an overdose of a preparation containing barbiturates. Her husband said she had not been well in recent years and had used sedatives with increasing frequency. He said he had asked her to cut down on them but she hadn't; however, he did not believe she had committed suicide because she had been in relatively good spirits and was planning a party the afternoon before she died. He thought she had taken more capsules than she realized; probably, about 20 capsules altogether (30 grains or over). She had been getting them on prescription, refillings of prescriptions, some of the prescriptions she used had been issued to her sister.

(76-151 L: Termination August 6, 1954. Owner, 6 months prison, $1,000 fine; employee, $300 fine, 5 years probation (owner was a representative to State legislature but was unseated as a result of this conviction).)

A woman in Tennessee wrote us that she had found a capsule in her son's room which she believed might be a clue to his and his friends recent bad behavior. She did not know where he got the drug.

Our analysis showed the capsule contained a barbiturate, Carbromal mixture. Before our investigation was completed her son and a companion were arrested for burglarizing a hardware store, presumably while on a barbiturate binge.

Police in the city said there was a problem in the city because about 25 percent of the persons arrested for drunkenness had barbiturates and/or amphetamines in their possession. Those working with juveniles said there were many rumors about minors using barbiturates and even some tangible evidence of it.

(5-845 M: Terminated, September 1, 1955. Owner fined $350, employee fined $150, total, $500.

State officials in Florida relayed a complaint from a resident who gave them two bottles of capsules his daughter had recently received by mail. His daughter had had marital troubles and when she was visiting in Delaware a doctor prescribed barbiturates for her. She had the prescription filled in her home town in Ohio in 1951. The woman became addicted to the drug and eventually moved to Florida. In 1954 she was still receiving by mail regular shipments based on this prescription; this was the basis of the father's complaint. Neither the doctor nor the pharmacist knew of this addiction.

(70-762 L: Terminated, September 20, 1954. Owner fined $100.)

The District of Columbia Narcotics Squad bought barbiturates from a narcotics addict who was pushing them-probably to help support his narcotics habit. He was under the influence of narcotics when the police arrested him for these sales. He indicated the store which was the source of his supply and even bought some barbiturates with marked money the police furnished.

(75-183 L: Terminated June 15, 1954. Fine $500; owner, 1 year jail (probation).)

A man in New Mexico owned a retail store. He had a history of chronic alcoholism with several unsuccessful attempts with the "cure." In 1951 he began to combine barbiturates and alcohol, became steadily worse, reaching the point where he was unable to take care of his business. His wife divorced him and then she sold the business at a loss at auction. She left town but the husband · stayed on but would not tell anyone where or how he was living. A former employee gave our inspectors the story and they were able to conduct an investigation of the alleged source.

(69-641 L: Terminated February 2, 1955. Owner and employee each fined $150, or $300 total.)

The Chicago police picked up a teen-age boy who had capsules of a barbiturate on him. He said he bought 10 of them for $2.50 from another youth whose source he did not know. He gave the neighborhood in which the purchase was made and the circumstances indicated the seller did not have far to go for the drug he had bought for this sale. Other information in possession of the police obtained from boys held on various charges indicated the probable source and our inspectors made buys there.

(65-731 L: Terminated October 13, 1954. Corporation, $500; president, $500: employee $500; total, $1,500 plus $37.50 costs.)

The police in a town in Kentucky reported to us that they had arrested a woman, a divorcee, on disorderly conduct charges and found 35 capsules of a barbiturate in her possession. They took these from her. After they had eventually released her, she got in a taxicab and drove to a certain address where a man came out to the cab and gave her an unlabeled bottle of capsules. The police then rearrested her and sent her to a hospital.

The police said she lived in Ohio but they had trouble with her regularly when she visited her mother in Kentucky. At least on two occasions she had to be put in a straitjacket after kicking the windows out of her cell. She broke her mother's finger one time and frequently threatened suicide.

Our inspectors convinced this woman that she should help them acquire evidence against the man who was contributing to her troubles by furnishing the drug. She placed an order and the inspectors followed her and observed the man make a delivery to her in an automobile. It developed he worked in a drugstore and was getting this drug from the stock without the management's knowledge.

(70-511 L: Terminated November 3, 1953. Fine, $200; costs $35; total, $235.)

The Bureau of Narcotics relayed to us a written complaint they had received on drugs which proved to be barbiturates. The addict discussed was a 60-year-old woman living with her son in Nebraska; the complaint was made by a friend of the family who said her source was known and should be stopped. He said she behaved like a chronic alcoholic, but her real trouble was barbiturates.

Her doctor, a psychiatrist, said she was neurotic and that condition was complicated by her use of drugs, mostly barbiturates. He commented this kind of case constitutes the larger part of his business.

(61-994 L: Terminated May 17, 1954. Corporation, $400; manager, $100; costs, $39.40; total, $539.40

A woman in Georgia fell and broke her leg in the spring of 1952. It healed but continued to hurt so she started taking about 3 grains of barbiturates a day. She had another accident in August of the same year, this time breaking her hip. This too healed, but continued to hurt. By December 1952 she was taking up to 36 grains of barbiturate a day. Her husband warned the person who was selling her the drug to stop and the man did. When the supply was cut off she went to the place of business her husband operated and had violent tantrums which drove trade away. In desperation he permitted her to get more of the drug. She went back for another operation to improve the repair of her hip. She did not get barbiturates in the hospital, but as soon as she was dismissed she again got "loaded" on them. Her husband took her back to the hospital and, for the first time, told the entire story of her habit. The hospital had the source of supply stopped and

in the spring of 1953 she seemed to be free from the habit, and was helping her husband with his business. He said he is afraid she may be tempted to start in again and attempts to keep an eye on her.

(59-262 L: Terminal September 28, 1953. Corporation, $500, probable 2 years; officer and manager, $500, probable 2 years; 2 employees, $250 each— $500.)

A man in Florida went to a doctor about 1951; one of the medications prescribed was a barbiturate. He tended to take too much of the drug but stopped before he had gone too far. In 1953 he had heart trouble and another doctor prescribed a barbiturate. He received 16 capsules on Friday, but took them all on the weekend. He tried to take the family for a ride on Sunday, narrowly missed having an accident.

On another weekend he got some more of the drug and became intoxicated with it. His wife found a supply of the capsules among his possessions and threw most of them away, because, as she said, he wouldn't remember how many he had taken anyway. She was able to learn where he was obtaining drugs. (60-217 L: Terminated March 29, 1955. Owner, $250; employee, $100.) Senator DANIEL. Do you have anything else? Anything else to place before us or put in the record?

Mr. LARRICK. Only to say, sir, that I enjoyed appearing before you and your committee.

Senator DANIEL. Thank you and be sure to give us any further information that you think might be of assistance to the committee. Mr. LARRICK. Very good.

Senator DANIEL. The committee will stand in recess until 10 o'clock tomorrow morning.

(Whereupon at 3:30 p. m. the committee recessed, to reconvene at 10 a. m., September 28, 1955.)