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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The drug must be withdrawn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.
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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. When this reporter
started his research, he' was
told at the Federal Narcotics
Bureau: "Be sure you don't
say the FBI is going around
arresting drug smugglers. We
are the ones who do it. We
have our own agents and they
don't belong to the FBI."
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India was the country to
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In the 10-day round of lec
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Indian Arbassador B.K. Neh
ru headed the country's dele
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