1111111IIIMMM Couple Dedicates Tract in Israel Former Drug Addict.4 Counsel Youth at N.J. Jewish Center center officials to convert a large storage area, near the A Jewish Center in New loung room, into an annex Jersey which tested the idea to the lounge where they of having former drug ad- could continue their rap diets serve as counselors to sessions. Then a former drug Jewish teen-age members addict, majoring in psychol- with drug problems has since ogy and a graduate of a added a former addict to its therapeutic community, was staff as a permanent mem- hired to staff the lounge and ber to continue that program. to conduct regular rap ses The experiment and its im- sions. pact on the teenagers, the center board and on the local Nathan Coleman Jewish community were de- scribed by David Dubin, ex- Directs Health Club ecutive director of the Jew- at Jewish Center ish Community Center of Jewish Center President Atlantic County in Margate. He outlined the development Richard L. Kux announces in Jewish Community Center the appointment of Nathan Program Aids, a quarterly Coleman as director of the publication of the National Men's Health Club. Coleman, former athletic Jewish Welfare Board. director of Sidney Hill Town The experiment with use of former addicts developed from Dubin's becoming ac- quainted with the work of the Narcotics Addiction Re- habilitation Center Organiza- tion (NARCO), a non-profit agency which had been started in Atlantic City by four ex-addicts who felt that former addicts were best equipped to help active ones. NARCO receives allocations from the Federation of Jew- ish Agencies and the United Fund. The executive director said there were two reasons for consideration of a NARCO NATHAN COLEMAN ex-addict staff member as an out - reach in - building and Country Club, has served worker at the center with as consultant to groups drug-troubled teen-agers. He establishing health or exer- said that the teen-agers cise clubs. He worked for 27 needed "a more dramatic years as parttime Center form of stimulation to pene- exercise director. Author of several books on trate the shield of apathy and flippancy that helped therapeutics and exercise, them deny their own prob- some of which are used in lems and reeking help for existing Center programs, those problems," and that C o le m a n has innovated "a more individualized ap- health and exercise program- proach was necessary to ing for adults and has de- break through the center's veloped acrobatic and gym- tradition of serving teen- nastic programs for young- agers through group organ- sters. ization and structure." One area of health care in Dubin described the teem which Coleman specializes is agers' drug problems as ex- the development and plan- cluding heroin but involving ning of reconditioning pro- repeated use of marijuana, grams for post-heart attack amphetamines and LSD. and post-injury victims. He After discussion, a set of has lectured on the topic be- controls at the Center was fore physicians and medical agreed on. The project would assemblies. be limited to a four-month experiment, exclusively un- Foreign Ministers der center auspices. The ex- addict would be recommend- to Meet in Rehovot ed by NARCO but screened REHOVOT — Practically by the center staff which every country in Latin Amer- would have exclusive control ica, as well as some 30 Afri- of selection. can and Asian nations, will It was also agreed that be represented by ministers publicity would be limited to or other top officials at the a discreet announcement in seventh Rehovot Conference, the center b-ulletin and trans- beginning Sept. 5. Also participating in this mittal to teen-agers through year's conference, devoted to the staff teen-age worker. Initially, a young man was the problem of economic hired and later a girl, both growth in developing coun- tries, will be dozens of dis- former addicts who had been tinguished scientists and "clean" for an extended scholars, including Prof. Si- period of time. They found mon Kuznets, Harvard Nobel that teen-agers in trouble Laureate in Economics, and with drugs "were far more Prof. Richard Hoggart, assis- prone to discuss drugs on a tant director-general for so- personal level at an earlier cial services, humanities and stage in a relationship with culture, UNESCO. a former addict than they were with a non-addict." The INTERNATIONAL Rap sessions with groups of MEDITATION SOCIETY will teen-agers became a com- present a free, public lecture mon practice in the teen-age on the technique of trans- program, particularily in the cendental meditation as center's drop-in lounge. taught by Maharishi Mahesh Dubin listed two develop- Yogi 7:30 p.m. Wedneesday ments to indicate that the at the Southfield Parks and experiment had been effec- Recreation Bldg., room 222. tive. After a year of opera- All are welcome. For in- tion of the drop-in lounge, formation, call Robert C. the teen-age users asked Lesh, 642-4444. By BEN GALLOB (Copyright, 1973, :ITN, Inc.) ?r,7%, :3 Julius and Celia Hackman of Southfield, have just re- turned from Israel where they dedicated a nahala, or tract of land, near the city of Kiryat Shemona in the Galilee. 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