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
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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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LIBERIAKS VOTE
Monrovia, Liberia -fllPD- LI.
berians went to the polls to.
day to reelect President Wil.
Ham Tubman to his fifth term
in the first uncontested prcsi
dential election in the coun
try's history.
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