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Pqge 2 Spilyay Tyvnoo, Wjrrn Springs, Oregon March 31, 2005 bbJ . ! i i 4 Raffle to benefit horse race The Columbia River Rotlco Association is sponsoring a raffle, proceeds to go for awards for winners of the wild horse race. The drawing will be held July 4. Tickets arc $1 each. See the following for people for tickets: Terry Scjuiemphen, Gladys Squiemphen, I.aOonna Siiiicmphcn, Rita Scjuiemphen, Val Squiemphen, Monica Iconard, Priscilla Yazzie, I.yda Rhoan, Kitty l'ilbin or Dolly Hudonic. Items to be raffled: Quarter horse colt, 27-inch color television, portable DVT) player, Nike golf bag, $100, six jars of huckleberry jam, Chcmawa blanket, Mt. Rushmorc mouse pad, spaghetti pot, bar-b-quer, coffee maker, ten gift certificates, beaded belt buckle, two beaded key chains, 18-inch booster cables, one kilo cut beads, two kids camp chairs, electric roaster, Pendleton vest, pick-up load of wood, hand made hunting knife, case of oil, ribbon shirt, and other donated items. Veteran meetings on Wednesdays Attention veterans: All VTW meetings will be upon the first Wednesdays of each month, starring at 5:30 p.m. at the Veterans 1 1 .ill. Anyone wishing audi ence with the VTW should call to be added to the agenda. The person to contact is Commander I Mot Palmer Post Nc 4217 Kirby Heath Sr., 553-2 11 5. Or Quarter master Harvey Jim, 553-9003. Brian MortentenSpilyay Raylene Thomas (left), Sallie Polk-Adams, and Charlene Moody serve lunch during a Madras High School senior class fund-raising spaghetti feed at the Warm Springs Community Center March 22. Funds from the event will be used for the seniors' trip to Disneyland. Doctor explains causes of addiction By Brian Mortensen Spilyuy Tjmoo While Oregon's recent mea sures to restrict the sale of cold medicines with ephedrine and pscudocphedrine have proven effective in hampering the pro duction of methamphctamine, in the end, treatment and edu cation arc what will defeat the drug's scourging effect in Or egon and the western U.S., said the medical director of a treat ment center for Native Ameri cans in the northwest. Dr. Vern Williams, from the Native American Rehabilitation Association of the Northwest (NARA), spoke recently to health professionals and Warm Springs community member at the Health and Wellness Center. He spoke about metham phctamine addiction and its af fect on the human brain and body. Williams, who has worked for NARA for the past five and a half years, said that while alco holism can be attributed to ge netics in 60 percent of patients, and nicotine addiction can be attributed to genetics in 90 per cent, no one knows how high ge netics plays a part in metham phetamine addiction. "There's a high genetic com ponent for nicotine addiction, and I suspect that for metham phctamine, the risk is just kind of in our genes," he said. "My guess, and it's only a guess, is that it's really high. It's maybe in the 80 percent range." Addicts who try to stop us ing methamphctamine without treatment often fail, he said, because prolonged use causes changes in brain circuitry that affect pleasure centers, emotion, behavior and memory. The changes are irreversible. "These changes include the compulsion to use drugs despite severe adverse consequences," he said. 'That's why an alcoholic who hasn't drank for 17 years goes out and drinks and is in the same boat or worse than he was before. You're right back to where you were because the wir- . ing is all still there." Methamphetamine works the same way all addictive drugs work, by causing the release in the brain of the chemical dopamine. "Everybody who takes a drug and has a pleasurable ex perience with a drug, whether it's alcohol, nicotine, metham phetamine, opiates, they're all doing the same thing," he said. "They're raising the dopamine, level, and that causes a pleasur able experience." Methamphetamine also raises the adrenaline level to cre ate a rush of excitement. That rush will compel a user to keep using, to keep creating the sen sation. This urge, Williams said, is common to monkeys and mice in laboratories: the animals keep pushing buttons for more methamphctamine until they die, because of the pleasurable feeling. 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