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6 B Narcotics-Part IV THURSDAY. MAY 9. 1961 MEDFOBD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGON Pep Pills, Barbiturates Causing Many Headaches for Narcotics Bureau Bv HARRY FERGUSON Washington 1UPU A truck roared down an Arizona high way, struck a bus and killed nine persons. The truck driver had been without sleep lor 4U hours and had kept going by taking pep pills. This is one facet of the newest problem in the fed eral government's war to stamp out drug addiction. The Federal Bureau of Narcotics is helpless because it has no control over the manuiaclure, sale or distribution of the so- called "dangerous drugs" - known to medical science as the amphetamines and the barbiturates. They come under the juris diction of the Food and Drug Administration, which is so concerned about their wide spread use in the United Slates that it is planning to set up a cloak-and-dagger or ganization in an attempt to check their illicit distribution. The Bureau of Narcotics has had considerable success in cutting down the use of the opiate drugs over which it has jurisdiction - opium, m o r phine and heroin. It also is making progress against mari juana. Come From Mexico The amphetamines (benze drine and dexedrinc) pep you up. The barbiturates (nembu tal, Seconal and amytal) are sedatives. Both can be legally obtained on a doctor's pre scription, but that isn't the point. They are flooding across the Mexican border by what the Food and Drug Ad ministration calls "tens of mil lions," are being sold illegally all over the nation and are en slaving a new generation of addicts. The odd fact Is that the drugs are made in America. It works like this: U.S. drug manufacturers receive orders from Mexico for ampheta mines and barbiturates and make legal shipments. The drugs wind up in the border towns of Mexico where they are distributed to drug stores which can sell them without a prescription. Smugglers buy them by the thousands and millions and run them across the border Into the United States. Act Differently Pep pills taken in excess in crease the blood pressure, speed up the pulse, cause sweating, tremors and spasms. The barbiturates are Intoxi cating. Persons taking them become drowsy and confused, are unable to co-ordinate their muscles while standing walking, become depressed and quarrelsome and arc un able to perform simple tasks. The drug must be withdrawn gradually from heavy users because- the addict will go into something resembling deli rium tremors and may die. The Food and Drug Ad ministration has asked Con gress for an appropriation to set up an undercover organi zation to try and get to the heart of the problem - by in filtrating and breaking up the smuggling rings operating along the Mexican border. It i also wants legislation to make it a federal offense to possess the drugs for illegal sale. Role of Doctor Every study and discussion of drug addiction of any kind always arrives eventually at the role of the American doc tor. He Is the man who can scribble on a prescription pad and make it possible for (he addict to get legal relief from torture. He Is also in a dilem ma. President Kennedy's Ad visory Commission on Nar cotics and Drug Abuse states it this way: "Considerable disagreement has grown up between those charged with enforcement of the federal narcotics laws and physicians. Physicians have been unwilling to treat addicts for fear of prosecution." The New York Academy of Medicine, in a recent study, preferred stronger language and asserted hundreds of doc tors have been prosecuted over the years by the Federal Narcotics Bureau: "Most physicians were arrested while following accepted medical precepts. They were prosecuted on the charge that treatments for addicted pa tients that included narcotic prescriptions weren't legiti mate professional practice under the law. "Only a small proportion of the physicians apprehend ed were out and out culprits." Keeps Closa Check The Narcotics Bureau keeps a fairly close check on the volume of drugs dispensed hy doctors. Because of the risk involved, many doctors re fuse to accept narcotic addicts as patients, but refer them to local, state or federal agen cies. The position of the Nar cotics Bureau is that it is im possible to treat an addict el fectively unless he is kept under careful supervision in a drug-free environment. It takes a dim view of the treat ment of the "ambulatory pa tient" a man who is out walking around on his own, Puihei Ahead "He could make the rounds of a dozen doctors," a bureau spokesman said. "He could get some heroin every place he stopped. He is not looking for treatment and he doesn't want a cure. What he wants Is a hand full of prescriptions so he can go to drugstores and get his shots without running tne risK oi arrest." President Kennedy's spe cial' commission so far has is sued only an interim report and Is pushing ahead with its investigation. It has, however, reached the conclusion that an effective blow must be struck at the big-time drug smugglers, and it proposes to do it by setting up a special team of lawyers and investi gators inside the Justice De partment. It also has asked the American Medical Asso ciation to clarify the role of the physician by drawing up News About Servicemen ON CARRIER Seaman Apprentice Robert F Thrasher, son of Mr. and Mrs. F. L. Tharasher, 1401 Johnston St., Mcdford, Ls serv ing on the anti-submarine air craft carrier, USS Benning ton, a Pacific fleet unit which recently conducted refresher training off the California coast. The ship operates out of Long Beach, Calif. PROMOTED Rodney L. Snyder, son of Mr. and Mrs. Alvin C. Sny der, 343 South Grape si., Mcdford, recently was pro moted to Marine lance cor poral at El Toro Marine Corps Air Station, Santa Ana, Calif. He is serving there with with headquarters and main tenance Squadron 15, a unit of the third Marine aircraft wing. He is a graduate of Eagle Point High school and entered the service In July, 1901. . ENLIST Three valley men enlisted In the Navy during April, ac cording to the Medford Navy recruiting office. Joining the service were Gerald L. Bruce, 30 South Central avc., Mcdford; John T. Murdock, son of Mrs. Doris Burkctl, route 1, box 258B, Rogue River, and Thomas G. Gastorf, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence A. Gastorf, 187 Strawberry lane, Ashland. ON TEST TRIP Army First Lt. William G. Frohnmaycr, son of Mr. and Mrs. William Frohnmaycr, 3526 Ross lane, Mcdford, rcc tcntly took part In a combat readiness lest in the Yukon command maneuver area with other members of the ninth infantry's first battle group, regularly stationed at Ft. Wainwright, Alaska. Lt. Frohnmayer entered the Army in May, 1961, and ar rived in Alaska in August, 1962. He is a 1056 graduate of Medford High school and a 1960 graduate of University of Oregon. AWARDED Cadet MuJ. Theodore Earl Lawson, son of Dr. and Mrs. Earl L. Lawson, 301 Windsor avc., Mcdford, has been pre sented the Air Force Times award for his outstanding con tribution in public relations work in promoting favorable public attention to the Air Force resvrve oincers train im corps at the University of Kansas for the school year 1962-63. BANQUET Frozen Dinners Candy Bars All Varialias-11-Oi. SILK Pastel Shedei-400-Count Pkg. li iiiitrt rtrttfn i ttr WtttiitHrt I lii I iiJIJlUlliJUii statement defining what constitutes legitimate medical treatment of a drug addict. Whether the battle against drugs could ever be centra lized in one federal agency without quite a struggle is doubtful. Each agency jeal ously guards its own pre serve. 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