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Updated: May 22, 2025

For a year she was careful- she was anxious to graduate-and developed real cunning in the use of drugs; but dependence upon these steadily undermined her reserve until she was almost daily using something for the "tired feeling" which was now so chronic. Nearly two years had passed before her drug-taking habit was discovered. Prompt dismissal necessarily followed.

Robert S. Carroll - Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness