For men shall be \u2026 lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God. <\/i><\/p>\n
\u2014II Tim. 3:2, 4<\/i><\/p>\n
3876<\/b> High Costs To Society<\/b><\/p>\n
The cost of drug abuse to society in terms of crime, medical treatment, custodial care and loss of work amount to $10.3 billion a year. Heroin addiction accounts for over $6 billion of the total. <\/p>\n
In addition, tobacco use costs society $6.7 billion a year, and alcoholism costs $32 billion annually. <\/p>\n
3877<\/b> Drugs In The U. S. Military<\/b><\/p>\n
It is estimated that there are about 83,000 men in the armed services using heroin or opium, and a minimum of 600,000 who smoke marijuana. Investigators are often told that from 30 percent to as high as 80 percent of military personnel are involved in drug use. <\/p>\n
\u2014Christian Victory<\/i><\/p>\n
3878<\/b> High Schoolers\u2019 Trips<\/b><\/p>\n
Of the 17 million high school students in America, over 2 million use dope in some form. Survey shows that 20\u201330% of all students have experimented with drugs, and \u00bc of these say that they take dope on a regular basis. <\/p>\n
Half of the high school students in many affluent suburbs have used marijuana. Hundreds of students have died on bad trips of LSD or other hard drugs. The minds and bodies of thousands are warped and marred by drugs. At a hippie party in a western city, a young college student under the influence of LSD grabbed a live kitten and ate it raw. <\/p>\n
\u2014Homer Duncan<\/p>\n
3879<\/b> Collegians\u2019 Use Of Drugs<\/b><\/p>\n
Almost one-third of students on American college campuses have tried marijuana and one-seventh use it regularly. These findings were made public in Washington, D.C., before the Congress by the National Institute of Mental Health. One of the major points of the survey is that there has been substantial increase in the use of the drug among college students. <\/p>\n
\u2014Christian Victory<\/i><\/p>\n
3880<\/b> Survey Of Harlem<\/b><\/p>\n
A house-to-house survey of a 40-block area of Harlem, New York, revealed 18,000 hard drug addicts, including 2,000 children between the ages of 7 and 15. And 90 percent of those children lived by themselves without the presence of an adult in their immediate environment. <\/p>\n
3881<\/b> Largest Pot Ever Seized<\/b><\/p>\n
Miami (AP)\u2014Forty tons of a marijuana, valued at $24 million, were discovered on an island near Freeport, Bahamas, by federal agents on a search-and-rescue mission in August 16, 1975. <\/p>\n
It was believed to be the biggest marijuana seizure ever. <\/p>\n
The marijuana was found on deep water key, about 15 miles southeast of Freeport, by agents searching the area for a downed helicopter. The search for the helicopter was called off, officials said. <\/p>\n
The pot had been pressed into bricks and was stacked eight feet high in burlap and plastic bags, agent said. They placed a value of $24 million on the dope. <\/p>\n
3882<\/b> Most Valuable Narcotics Catch<\/b><\/p>\n
While the largest narcotics haul happened in 1975, the most valuable haul ever occurred in 1972 when 937 lbs. of pure heroin were seized aboard a shrimp boat at Marseilles, France. The shipment was worth $106 million retail. <\/p>\n
3883<\/b> Nosing Out Secrets<\/b><\/p>\n
A news item:<\/p>\n
Charlie and his partner, Rebel, hold jobs with the United States Customs Service. Both are German Shepherds whose job it is to sniff out the illicit weeds being smuggled throught customs in Chicago. <\/p>\n
The two evidently like their jobs and are good at them. Charlie, a 20-month-old black and tan dog, will attack a package containing marijuana like a puppy pouncing on a hidden bone. <\/p>\n
He sniffed each package as it came by him on conveyor belt, but when things got too slow and he had to sniff the same packages a second time, he began to lose interest. So he stuck his head in a bin of packages to smell out what was there. Still nothing. <\/p>\n
Then a postal worker brought a package and put it under some others. <\/p>\n
When Charlie caught a whiff of it, he pounced, knocking other packages out of the way. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s only a test package,\u201d explained Lynch, 23, who spent four years as a dog handler in the Air Force. \u201cIf one of the dogs doesn\u2019t find anything for a while, we throw in a package with marijuana or hashish to keep up his interest and give him a sense of accomplishment.\u201d<\/p>\n
The same qualities that make good sentry and attack dogs\u2014large size, loyalty to one person, high degree of concentration on the job\u2014are the qualities that make good detectors of marijuana and hashish. <\/p>\n
All Charlie or Rebel needs is a faint whiff, and he has it. To keep their scent sharp, Lynch works each dog only about 45 minutes at a time putting the other dog to work. <\/p>\n
Once the dogs find a package, it is opened by Customs agents to confirm the presence of marijuana or hashish. The package then is retied and sent on to its destination. Sometimes an arrest will be made when the package is accepted, and sometimes several packages will be allowed to go through before an arrest is made if agents suspect several persons are involved. <\/p>\n
3884<\/b> Right To Drugs In Private<\/b><\/p>\n
Alaska\u2019s Supreme Court has ruled that citizens have a constitutional right to possess marijuana for personal use in their homes (but not in public). It is thus the first state\u2014and one of the few places on earth\u2014where pot may be smoked legally. Ironically, the ruling did not reverse the conviction of the man who brought the case. He was using the stuff in his car. <\/p>\n
3885<\/b> Threat To Western Civilization<\/b><\/p>\n
A federal drug expert has issued a warning. Unless the staggering rate of drug abuse is checked, \u201cWestern civilization as we know it will cease in three decades.\u201d<\/p>\n
This is the warning issued at the Institute on Drug Dependence and Abuse sponsored by the College of Saint Elizabeth, Convent Station, N. J. \u201cWe have a brain drain in this country, but it is not alcoholism, or other exploitations\u2014it is primarily drug abuse,\u201d said Michael J. Costello, a special agent in the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs, Department of Justice. <\/p>\n
\u201cWhat will happen to this country when drug-addicted youths assume the jobs of teachers, lawyers, clergymen, doctors, and others?\u201d the federal agent asked. <\/p>\n
3886<\/b> Death In Magazine\u2019s Print<\/b><\/p>\n
Dissolve any two pages of this magazine in methyl alcohol, a feature in Caper<\/i> magazine suggested, and drink the mixture. The ink used to print the magazine was claimed to contain a powerful hallucinogen similar in effect to LSD. <\/p>\n
The Food and Drug Administration promptly issued a warning that those who followed the suggestion would probably end up blind or dead. Methyl alcohol is a deadly poison, even when used in small quantities. <\/p>\n
About 150,000 copies of the magazine were recalled. <\/p>\n
\u2014Stanley C. Baldwin<\/p>\n
3887<\/b> A Baby Affected<\/b><\/p>\n
A baby was born with four fingers on one hand and six on the other. The head and back were misshapen. There were holes in the walls between the chambers of the heart. There were defects in the bone structure. Kidneys, lungs, liver, digestive tract were abnormal. Both parents were healthy and the only reason found was that the chromosomes had become abnormal because the mother took LSD three times and the father had taken it twice. <\/p>\n
\u2014News and Notes<\/i><\/p>\n
3888<\/b> Inhaling Aerosol Fumes<\/b><\/p>\n
A practice that is far more serious\u2014the inhaling of fumes from aerosol cans\u2014is becoming a fatal fad. Youngsters seeking a high spray the mist into a bag or other container and breathe deeply. About four deaths a month were in the early 1970\u2019s recorded, according to the Food and Drug Administration. The gas propellants (usually fluorocarbons) in hundreds of different kinds of household sprays can kill quickly. They are carried by the blood from the lungs to the heart, where they interrupt normal cardiac rhythm. <\/p>\n
\u2014Time<\/i><\/p>\n
3889<\/b> The Aural High<\/b><\/p>\n
Swallowing, sniffing, smoking and injecting are the prevalent ways of using drugs. One youngster has accidentally explored another method\u2014packing her ear. The aural high was reported in a whimsical letter to the New England Journal of Medicine<\/i> by Dr. Thomas E. Piemme of the George Washington University School of Medicine. <\/p>\n
Identified only as a \u201cyoung lady of 18,\u201d the unwitting pioneer was undressing for a nude dip in the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool during an anti-war demonstration. She solved the problem of how to protect half a gram of hashish by depositing it in her left ear. How to extract the wad became another problem; amateur efforts pushed the dampened hash deeper into the external auditory canal. <\/p>\n
She had to go to the George Washington University Hospital emergency room, where the staff performed what Piemme terms a \u201chashishectomy.\u201d Though the girl claimed not to have smoked either hash or marijuana that day, she said that she felt high. She also showed signs of being so. The probable explanation is that the ear canal\u2019s epithelium absorbed some of the active ingredient in the splashed hash. <\/p>\n
3890<\/b> Spiders Go Haywire<\/b><\/p>\n
In research, guinea pigs, rats, mice and monkeys are the most common animals used in experiments. But in North Carolina\u2019s Department of Mental Health, Dr. Peter N. Witt has settled on using spiders. He noticed how intricately symmetrical the spider\u2019s wheel- like webs are, and this led him to choose the creature. Any disturbance of the spider\u2019s nervous or muscular system would be revealed in the webs it spun. So he raised swarms of the gray and brown creatures, then he set his spiders tripping on drugs, sipped from a syringe in dilute solution. <\/p>\n
Amphetamines are stimulants which cause humans to become hyperactive, hallucinatory and disoriented. When used on spiders, they make all the assessments in building a web\u2014but then fail to make the correct actions. Dr. Witt says, \u201cThey see where the last strand was placed and they know where the next one should go, but they weave it in the wrong place.\u201d Thus, amphetamine webs are highly irregular. Those webs which are woven under the influence of tranquilizers are usually regular in pattern but considerably smaller than normal. Those spun under the influence of barbiturates tend to be smaller and widely erratic. Other research experiments were made with mescaline and psilocybin and they affected the spider\u2019s muscles and brain. <\/p>\n
\u2014Christian Victory<\/i><\/p>\n
3891<\/b> Medical Student\u2019s Experiment Brought Death<\/b><\/p>\n
A twenty-four-year-old medical student died in Philadelphia when he decided to try LSD once. Mark Prager had spent a summer working in a Baltimore hospital with mental patients who were under the influence of LSD. He told his wife he wanted to feel the same effects as his patients. An autopsy named the cause of death as the \u201cadverse effect to an illegal drug \u2026 LSD.\u201d<\/p>\n
It would seem that this was a case of \u201cgood guy\u201d dying tragically by means of an almost freak reaction. Many \u201cbad guys\u201d take LSD repeatedly and never die from it. But that\u2019s the way it is. Some people seem to get away with almost anything while others get nailed the first time they step out of line. <\/p>\n
\u2014Gospel Herald<\/i><\/p>\n
3892<\/b> A Loser Either Way<\/b><\/p>\n
News Media carried two lessons for losers in a single week. In Wisconsin, Joseph Huber was arrested for selling \u201ctea\u201d (marijuana) to a student. Huber beat the charge easily when the stuff was shown to be plain drinking tea. But his victory was short lived: the law convicted him of defrauding the other student. <\/p>\n
3893<\/b> Prescription Was Too Legible! <\/b><\/p>\n
A man walked into a Yonkers pharmacy and handed the druggist a doctor\u2019s prescription for a narcotic. The druggist took one look, asked the customer to return in the afternoon, then phoned the doctor. It turned out that the man had visited the doctor\u2019s office the day before. When his request for narcotics was refused, he stole a pad of prescription blanks and, after studying a book on the subject, forged the prescription. <\/p>\n
What had aroused the druggist\u2019s suspicions? \u201cThat prescription,\u201d said the druggist, \u201cwas too legible to have been written by a doctor.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014Saturday Evening Post<\/i><\/p>\n
3894<\/b> Thalidomide Victims Compensated<\/b><\/p>\n
Tokyo (AP)\u2014The families of 63 thalidomide babies signed an agreement under which the government and a pharmaceutical firm are to pay a total of more than 6,000 million yen ($20 million) as compensation for the birth of an estimated 939 deformed babies to thalidomide users in Japan. <\/p>\n
The compromise agreement brought an end to a dispute which began nine years ago when the plaintiffs filed a joint lawsuit against the Health and Welfare Ministry and Dai-Nippon Pharmaceutical Co. of Japan which sold thalidomide, a German-made tranquilizing drug. <\/p>\n
3895<\/b> Linkletter\u2019s Daughter<\/b><\/p>\n
One of the tragic events of the last 1960\u2019s was what happened to Art Linkletter\u2019s daughter Diane. She had experimented with taking LSD, her father said, and had confided to him that the whole thing was ridiculous. Frightened by the experience and by the \u201cbum trips\u201d of friends, she vowed never to try LSD again. But hallucinations kept recurring until, depressed and afraid she was losing her mind, she leaped from her apartment to her death. <\/p>\n
3896<\/b> Epigram On Narcotics<\/b><\/p>\n
\u2022 Father to mother: \u201cAt least this report card proves he isn\u2019t taking any mind-expanding drugs.\u201d <\/p>\n
\u2014Reamer Keller<\/p>\n
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