(d) Misleading Advertising
 (e) Additional Considerations (Self-Control, Deference to Others,
 Fire Hazards, Irritability, Waste of Money, Loss and Injury
 by Fire, Habit-Forming Drug)

 4. Narcotic Drugs:

 (a) Definition and Body Effects
 (b) Names (and identity) of Narcotics
 (c) Effects upon the Nervous System
 (d) Physical Basis of the Habit
 (e) Special Warning to High School Students
 (f) Effects upon Character
 (g) How Narcotics Lead to Crime
 (h) The Traffic in Narcotics
 (i) Narcotic Conditions in America
 (j) Narcotics in Patent Medicine
 (k) Sources of Narcotic Addiction
 (1) Legislative Control
 (m) A United Front Needed
 (n) Summary (Narcotic Drugs)
 (o) References

 This book represents all that is good and bad concerning the teaching
about narcotics. All references here are to the 1944 edition.

 The introduction, page 459, which is largely well stated indicated that
alcohol does not produce unconsciousness. In large amounts it does produce
unconsciousness.

 On page 460 the assumption that alcohol attacks the lipoid of the nerve
cells has no foundation in scientific study. The second paragraph on that
page is well stated except for the opening phrase, "In similar fashion."
The same errors concerning damage to cells is repeated on pages 462 and 463.

 The section, "A Narcotic, Not a Stimulant," is good on page 463 and two
lines on 464. The remainder is not borne out by the evidence.

 In the section, "Further Effects on the Nervous System," pages 464-467,
there is much repetition. The last paragraph is a good statement that
covers all that the previous part of the section repeats unnecessarily.

 The section on alcohol and accidents, pages 467-469 is good.

 The section, "A Habit-Forming Drug," classes alcohol with other
 narcotics but does not state that alcohol habit formation is psychological
 rather than physical. With the use of narcotics as opium, the conditioning
 is physical.

 The text goes on with descriptions of how alcohol effects circulation,
 respiration, and excretion. These have the common error of blaming alcohol
 directly when malnutrition is at the root of all these difficulties.


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