However, the group of drug addicts included all those who received medical care regardless of their racial and ethnic affiliation, since
narcomania appeared in our country as a medico social phenomenon just recently.
Habit Dipsomania Alcoholism Chronic poisoning Morphinomania
Narcomania Inebriety Morphinism Addiction
(20) Marek Kohn,
Narcomania: On Heroin (London: Faber and Faber, 1987), p.
Narcomania. Medical and Social consequences, Treatment, Moscow.
* Drug abusers were described as "narcomaniacs" and their action or condition as "
narcomania" (SOU, 1939:25, App.
In 1962, Kettil Bruun, then head of the Social Research Institute of Alcohol Studies in Finland, wrote an essay (in Swedish) on "Alcoholism and
Narcomania" (Bruun, 1962).