Wally Dorothy's Addiction

Dorothy reeds told a lot of different stories about her husband's death. She said he died because he insisted on withdrawing from morphine cold turkey, and that his body simply couldn't handle it. But she also told a reporter that her husband contracted influenza in the hospital. A doctor tending to him told the new york imes his present illness has no connection with over indulgences in alcohol or narcotics. In so doing, Dorothy invoked war veterans and everyday americans as victims of the same thing that killed her husband. And in so doing, transformed wally's adiction from a harbinger of hollywood sin into a public health crisis that could afflict even the sin free