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DOCTORS hit out today at a drugs craze which has ruined the lives of millions of innocent women.

The killer habit has been mercilessly forced on the population by a mafia-type family determined to cling to power and privilege whatever the misery.

Their pitiful victims are of all ages and backgrounds. Millions are sinking at this very moment into debt, poverty and slavery.

Yet in their own eyes these trapped women are in the midst of a wonderous fairy tale. Under the influence of the drug they submit themselves to a lifetime of servitude and domestic drudgery.

The new mania is called Royal Family sniffing. People who get hooked claim it is cheap and harmless. In the long run the cost is fatal.

Last week, in a bid for a larger share of the booty, a flagrant public procession was held by the main drug pushers. A police force in the direct pay of the family, looked the other way as vast quantities of poison were poured from an open carriage.

Afterwards, Sir David McNee, Police Commissionet, said his officers had successfully prevented any breach of the peace. There had not been any "so-called glass carriage"

Eye-witnesses claimed that a man and woman were in the carriage - one of them in paramilitary uniform.

The woman has been identified as a former nursery nurse who gave up work for a life of idle luxury. Some claim, however that the nurse was secretly murdered and replaced by a multi-million pound robot almost indistinguishable from the real thing.

But behind this couple - be they human or humanoid - are the hard men and women of The Family who followed the procession at a discreet distance, watching the effect of their raid.

Millions of pounds have been spent on researching and packaging the drug, but how it works is still baffling medical science.

The basic idea is a sugar coated pill of such intense

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Socialist Organiser 6 August 1981 Page 3