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need  for  restrictions  of  this  kind,  from  a  public  health  point  of 
view,  and  also  because  of  a  natural  desire  to  refute,  in  a  definite 
and  positive  way,  the  repeatedly  made  claims  that  medicine  and 
pharmacy,  individually  or  collectively,  are  at  fault  in  fostering  the 
illegitimate  or  unnecessary  spread  of  the  habitual  use  of  narcotic 
drugs. 
Among  the  measures  that  have  been  introduced  to  further  regu- 
late the  sale  of  drugs  of  this  type  no  one  is  of  more  immediate 
interest  than  the  bill  recently  introduced  into  the  House  of  Repre- 
sentatives by  Mr.  Harrison,  of  New  York,  and  generally  designated 
as  H.  R.  2&.2JJ.  This  bill  is  in  effect  a  substitute  for  a  previously 
introduced  bill,  H.  R.  28,023  and  contains  several  features  en- 
dorsed by  representatives  of  the  various  National  drug  associations 
that  recenth  held  a  meeting  in  the  City  of  Washington.  The  im- 
portance of  this  measure  is  emphasized  by  the  fact  that  it  is  de- 
signed to  provide  a  readily  available  record  of  all  purchases  and 
sales  of  habit  forming  drugs  and  thus  to  facilitate  the  enforce- 
ment of  existing  State  layvs. 
The  National  Drug  Trade  Conference. — This  is  the  name  under 
which  representatives  of  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association, 
The  National  Association  of  Retail  Druggists,  the  National  Whole- 
sale Druggists'  Association,  the  National  Association  of  Manu- 
facturers of  Medicinal  Products  and  the  National  Association  of 
Pharmaceutical  Chemists  organized,  in  the  City  of  Washington,  on 
January  15,  19 13,  a  permanent  legislative  conference. 
The  prime  object  of  this  conference  is  to  endorse  and  endeavor 
to  secure  greater  uniformity  in  the  several  State  and  Federal 
laws  relating  to  the  manufacture  and  distribution  of  drugs  and 
medicines  of  all  kinds.  The  following  resolution  was  adopted  as 
being  expressive  of  the  object  of  the  conference : 
The  National  Drug  Trade  Conference  in  session  in  Washington 
this  15th  day  of  January,  191 3,  herewith  submit  by  unanimous 
resolution  that  this  conference  is  heartily  in  favor  of  Federal  Legis- 
lation of  such  a  nature  as  to  bring  under  control  the  importation 
and  the  interstate  traffic  in  so-called  habit-forming  drugs  in  such 
a  measure  as  to  prevent  their  illegitimate  use  without  placing  un- 
necessary burdens  upon  the  manufacturer,  jobber,  retailer,  or 
physician. 
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