Morphinism

She had been placed in this institution under legal restraint to be treated for morphinism, and, according to her brother, "pure cussedness." ❋ Robert S. Carroll (N/A)

It is for this reason that lying is most prevalent and exhibited with the least amount of _critique_ in those individuals who either have never developed those restraining tendencies which a normal appreciation of social, ethical, and æsthetic consideration demands, or in whom these restraining influences have been weakened or abolished by some exogenous insult to the nervous system -- as, for instance, the tendency to fabrication dependent upon chronic alcoholism or morphinism. ❋ Bernard Glueck (N/A)

Against the widespread vices of alcoholism, morphinism, the ether habit, etc., hypnotism has been successfully employed, but it has not prevented speedy and fatal relapses. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

I decided to make the somewhat disproportionate sacrifice of time in order to study whether even such an extreme case of morphinism is accessible to psychotherapeutic treatment. ❋ Hugo M��nsterberg (1889)

On the other hand, I may say that I have not seen a single case in which a really patient and insistent treatment of morphinism has not been successful, even if the destructive dose of forty grains a day had become habitual. ❋ Hugo M��nsterberg (1889)

The situation of alcoholism repeats itself in still more ruinous forms with morphinism and cocainism, vices which grow in this country to an alarming degree. ❋ Hugo M��nsterberg (1889)

We have the catacombs and a queer old professor sighing after idealism, and Leo XIII, with the unearthly face among the saints, and the advice to return to the prayer-book, and the libel on the decadent who dies of morphinism after confessing and taking the sacrament -- that is, after repenting of his errors in the name of the Church. ❋ Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1882)

Alcoholism and morphinism, or an uncontrollable desire for alcohol or opium in some form or other, are now recognized as evidences of degeneration. ❋ James Weir (1881)

The evils of morphinism are even greater than those of alcoholism, and their transmission no less sure. ❋ Mary Wood-Allen (1874)

"Then, too, one of the most marked phases of morphinism is the pleasure its victims take in concealing their motives and conduct. ❋ Unknown (1908)