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MEDFOHD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGON TUESDAY. MAY 7. 1983 Narcotics-Part II Case Histories Disclose Most Drug Addiction Starts as Fun at Parties By HARRY FERGUSON Washington -flJPD There are persons listed in the files of the Federal Narcotics Bureau today as active drug addicts. Doubtless there are thousands more who have not been apprehended or applied for treatment. An overwhelming number of the addicts - 38,654 - are men. The drug most widely used is heroin, which is pro duced by the chemical treat ment of morphine. It gives the quickest jolt when inject ed into the blood st.e;n with a hypodermic needle and is M popular that 44,242 of the known addicts are heroin users. Most of the others use morphine or opium. Pattern Emerges How and why does a person become a heroin addict? From the thousands of case histories in the federal files, this clear and definite pattern emerges: The addict does not start with heroin, but with one of the milder drugs such as mari juana. He is attending a par ty, somebody offers him a marijuana cigarette and he enjoys a somewhat dreamy feeling of exaltation. At the next party he will smoke two, then three, then four. Drug addiction almost al ways starts as a result of some kind of group activity. The Narcotics Bureau says the only exceptions to that rule are the relatively few doctors and nurses who usually begin their addiction with small shots of heroin taken in soli tude. The fact that narcotics are easily available in the doctor's drug cabinet sets up . a temptation . to seek relief from the irritations and fa tigue of a long day. The average drug addict may continue on marijuana for months before the fatal day when somebody at the party suggests to him that there is something that will give him a stronger, quicker kick. Shot in Arm A belt is strapped around his arm to make the arteries and veins easy to penetrate, he feels the sharp jab of a hypodermic needle and the heroin courses into his blood stream. His face flushes, the pupils of his eyes constrict and there is a tingling sensa tion in his abdomen. Later he may "go on the nod," which 'means to fall into a fitful sleep, but in any event he has a feeling that everything in the world is fine and he is the master of his fate. Between two and three hours later it's all over. Some body suggests another shot and he takes it, but salvation is still within his own reach if he will just say no. If he goes on taking heroin daily for about two weeks he wakes up one morning and realizes, as the addicts say, that "the monkey is on my back." Then his entire world narrows down to one problem - how and where 10 get more heroin. His family, friends, food, job cease to have any meaning in his single-minded search for relief. Cost Is Great - Heroin is a powder, some times gray or beige, but in its purest form it is white. Its current value in the illicit drug channels is estimated at $650 an ounce, but pure her oin does not interest our ad dict because a shot of it would kill him. What he is looking for is "a bag," a powder that contains perhaps only 3 per cent heroin and the remainder an adulterate usually made of milk, sugar and quinine. He makes the best deal he can with a peddler to whom he has been introduced by his companions at the parties he attends. He may start out buying $10 worth of heroin a day, but then his body begins to build up tolerance to the drug and he needs it more often and in larger doses. His daily cost quickly can go up to $75 and that s when he embarks on burglary, holdups and petty thievery to get the money he needs. It is inevitable that the day of reckoning arrives when he cannot beg or buy heroin, and then there sets in what the Narcotics Bureau calls "the living death." Pain is a rela tive thing and it may be that some things - advanced can cer, for instance - can be worse torture than the need of an addict for drugs. But this is the way the Narcotics Bureau describes the agony: "He becomes restless and Memorial Park Is Incorporated Leave Pisa Tower Alone Is Decision Pisa, Italy -TOPtt- The people who tend the Leaning Tower of Pisa have figured out how to keep it from falling. Leave it alone. This, they said,- probably won't help its posture any. But it probably won't do any harm either. For the past 789 years the world-famed bell tower has had a tantalizing tilt that sends tourists running for their cameras and engine ers dashing to, their drawing boards. For the past 50 years, the 79-foot tower has been in creasing its tilt by .039 inches Flare of Fashion 1 M 111 V annually. The temptation to do something about it appar ently is irresistible. And that urge has done more harm than good, accord ing to the "Work of the Pisa Primacy," the organization that gives the tower its daily check-up. 'Every intervention carried out in the past has always resulted in an immediate worsening in the stability of the celebrated monument, a communique said Monday. Catholic Parents Seek School Buses Jefferson City, Mo. - fUPD - Catholic parents, temporarily set back in their battle for free school buses for parochial school children, Monday call ed off demonstration enroll ments at public schools but promised stronger action later. . ..: ' A committee of spokesmen for the parents said they had made the public aware of their grievance- and instructed the students to return to their parochial schools. Massive en rollments were promised next fall, unless buses were pro vided, v . The Missouri House of Rep resentatives Monday declined to reconsider a bill which would have provided the free buses to private and parochial school students. The more than 2.000 stu dents who had left their church-sponsored schools dur ing the past few days and en rolled at public schools were expected to return to paroch ial schools today. irritable. His eyes water as though he had hay fever. He yawns and mucus runs from his nose. Still later his mus cles begin to twitch violently and his back, arms and legs ache severely. He has violent pains in his stomach, vomits, has diarrhea, kicks his legs and jerks his arms. "He curls up in bed or on the floor and puts on as many blankets as he can find even in the hottest weather. His feet twitch continuously. If he sleeps at all, he is extreme ly restless. Because he cannot retain food or liquid in his stomach, he loses weight rap idly - as much as 10 pounds within 24 hours. About the third day without the drug he is in the very depths of torment. "He is unkempt, disheveled, dirty, neglecting all thought of personal hygiene. Even aft er he begins to recover from these violent reactions to the drug, he still is unable to sleep and suffers from extreme weakness and nervousness and has muscle pains for sev eral weeks." Next: Is there a cur and, if so, how does it work? Ashland - Incorporation pa pers are being filed in Salem for formation of the Ashland Memorial Park .Inc., for oper ation of a new cemetery in the Ashland area. Incorporators are Clarence C. Williams, Clarence M. Lit wilier and Attorney William M. Briggs, all of Ashland. Capital stock will be $100,000 and the corporation will es tablish and operate a new cemetery adjacent to Ashland with ultimate plans for build ing and operating complete entombment and burial facili ties. A portion of the Mark True property east of Bear creek, approximately 50 acres, has been purchased for the Me morial paik, according to Wil liams, who is president of the corporation. The property is bounded on the west by the Walter Jones property, on the east and north by the Howard Prib beno property and on the south by Bear creek. , Plans call for the immedi ate dedication and improve ment of the property, Wil liams said. They also provide for the eventual location and building of a chapel. Perpetual care will be pro vided in the cemetery and no upright monuments will be permitted. Access to the ceme tery will be from East Main st. at the interchange over the freeway, according to Wil liams. Gene R. Litwillcr Is vice president of the corporation. HEALTH ASSEMBLY Geneva -TOPC- Four hundred doctors and public health spe cialists from 118 nations as sembled here today for the opening of the annual World Health Assembly. KEEP AT IT Jacksonville. Fla.-TO-The Florida Antimosqulto associa tion opened its 34th annual meeting Monday with the motto, "Keep everlastingly at it." 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