DeadWilly.com and the tragedy of drug addiction!
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DeadWilly.com is educating about a very important but little-discussed physical effect of addiction. Drug addiction is sooner or later accompanied by injury to the human endocrine system with the loss of usual predictable sexual urges and functions. Sexual dysfunction occurs in both sexes but is more obvious in addicted men. Drug addiction overcomes both the male libido and the maternal instinct; the drug (or drugs) becomes the principal relationship. This is a common finding – sooner or later.
OPIUM DEN
An observation from 1839:
‘‘(Opium) has kept, and does now keep down the population:
the women have fewer children than those of other countries… the feeble opium-smokers of Assam… are more
effeminate than women.’’
Charles Alexander Bruce, ‘‘Report on the manufacture of tea
and on the extent and produce of the tea plantations in
Assam.’’ Calcutta, 1839.
Hormonal changes in chemical dependencies are well documented in the medical literature. www.DeadWilly.com provides multiple links to that enormous collection of medical research. Trust the science, right?
Current entertainment and social media present drug use as a cool, counter-cultural, quasi-sophisticated activity and make no reference to “Dead Willy”. Long ago the addict was presented in a more accurate light. Junie McCree, a Vaudeville entertainer, introduced the character “The Dope Fiend”, and in the essay “The Man from Denver” (1907) McCree mentions “Shorty” Wilson, both characters are opium addicts who lost their desire for women. See the images below taken from Variety Magazine in 1907. (Images)
ENTRY FROM VARIETY MAGAZINE 1907
The disruption of normal relationships in drug addiction is documented in images and internet links on this page. The association between drug addiction and domestic violence is old news.
Alcoholism among American men in times prior to the safety net of the US welfare system motivated the political organization of affected women and families. One result was the establishment of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) fighting against alcohol and drug use and their secondary social problems . Carrie A. Nation was an important figure in this effort.
The eventual collaboration of the WCTU and the National American Woman Suffrage Association (working to allow women the right to vote) in the late 1800s resulted in the ratification of the 18th Amendment instituting Prohibition (January 1920) followed by approval of the 19th Amendment (August 1920) giving women the right to vote.
Beer brewers and whiskey distillers in the US had worked for decades to prevent women from getting the right to vote foreseeing the ratification of Prohibition. That’s exactly what happened.
In Shakespeare”s Macbeth, Act 2, Scene 3
— the drunken porter — reference is made to alcohol’s negative effects on sexual function!
- (VIDEO CLIP OF MACBETH)
Porter: Knock, knock, knock! Who’s there?Knock, knock, never at quiet!Anon, anon! I pray you, remember the porter.Macduff: Was it so late, friend, ere you went to bed,That you do lie so late?
Porter: Faith, sir, we were carousing till the second cock; and drink,
sir, is a great provoker of three things.
Macduff: What three things does drink especially provoke?
Porter: Marry, sir, nose-painting, sleep and urine. Lechery, sir, it provokes, and unprovokes; it provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance; therefore, much drink may be said to be an equivocator with lechery: it makes him, and it mars him; it sets him on, and it takes him off; it persuades him, and disheartens him; makes him stand to, and not stand to; in conclusion, equivocates him in a sleep, and, giving him the lie, leaves him.
CARTOON OF CARRIE A. NATION
THE BOTTLE
“The Bottle” (1847) etchings illustrate the sequence of unfortunate events in the family of alcoholic parents.
This pattern of behaviors and events was described elsewhere as in the French novel L’Assommoir
DeadWilly.com and our sister sites DrugDeadWear.com and DrugDead.org are the product of the frustration, and sadness over the long-running addiction problem. Despite advances in technology, communication, etc. as well as an enormous expansion in the powers of law enforcement at governmental, state, and community levels, drugs continue to pollute our communities and homes and kill us at unprecedented levels.
