Preitldlin O UR note last week on Preludin may have left
the impression that only the popular news- papers were involved in the campaign against it : this, of course—as the editor of the Star points out in our correspondence columns—is incorrect. But the point we were trying to make—and neither Mr. McCarthy nor .any of the eminent sponsors of the campaign has attempted to answer it— is that Preludin addiction is demonstrably less dangerous than alcohol addiction. When the medical profession, the magistrates, the chemists and the popular press combine to urge that alcohol should be made available only on a doctor's prescription, it will be possible to take these periodic campaigns against individual pep pills or tranquillisers more seriously. As things are, all that these stunts do is create an alluring aura of temptation and wickedness around a drug which would otherwise cause only a fraction of the damage that alcohol does.
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