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Spilyay Tyvnoo, Wjrrn Springs, Oregon
March 31, 2005
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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.
"One of the things that's dif
ferent about methamphctamine
is that it'll stick on that cell for a
long, long time," he said.
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