Page Six THE MICHIGAN DAILY Friday, November 13, 1970 Page Six 1 HE MICHIGAN DAILY I .PEACE ,CORPS' can use skills and degrees in Education, Econ., Mkt'g., Bus. Adm., sciences, agricul- ture, architecture and the trades, as well as Liberal Arts. Talk it over in N ov. 9-13 3529 S.A.B. You'll Find MICHIGAN Beer Mugs Glass- ware Playing Cards 0 Bookends Ash Trays " Sweat Shirts 0 T-Shirts Jackets 0 Caps Hats " Six Footers Gloves * Blankets Car 0 Robes Banners I rPen nantis RINGS AND JEWELRY ATT (Continued from Page 1) The clinic was only recently granted a license by the depart- ment of Health, Education and Welfare to dispense the drug to addicts for a long period of time. Methadone on a short term basis is available from doctors who can legally prescribe it. As treatment for heroin addic- tion,hmethadone is designed to switch the user from addiction to heroin to addiction to the new and more easily controllable drug. 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But most ad- Walden adds. dicts, he admits, find the heroin And Walden points out that high too enjoyable and resort to while it is possible to use heroin methadone only when heroin is safely, "statistically it just doesn't not available. work out as a safe thing to do." Getting a heroin addict switched To the danger of overdoses and to methadone is not the last step impurities, he says, is added the in methadone treatments, h o w - danger of contracting serum hepa- ever. Kelsew says the final part of titis, which one doctor at Uni- any successful treatment program versity Hospital says is becoming - that which leaves the former an increasingly, serious problem junkie able to cope with life with- in Ann Arbor. The disease, which out recourse to drugs - cannot damages the circulatory system, is be accomplished in the black com- usually contracted from dirty munity without a positive commit- needles. ment of funds to help blacks once But even "keeping your needles they are off heroin. clean," says Walden, is not t h e best insurance against hepatitis And therein lies one of the for it can be transmitted through major obstacles preventing m o r e the heroin itself, which cannot be widespread help for the b 1 a c k sterilized. community. "There are no black The chemical irritants that powers-that-be to help," Kelsew cause veins to collapse are also maintains. "There is no reason to difficult to keep out of heroin, kick (the heroin) if you are black. Walden explains. Another doctor There are no jobs." at the clinic, Edward Pierce, Even if an addict does not kick points out ,however, that damage his habit, Walden says, a junkie done to veins by heroin is usually can maintain the same dosage for not permanent. a lifetime. Without a slight daily Walden, who has seen and giv- or weekly increase, however, the en limited treatment to around 80 user will eventually fail to get his addicts over the past year and a high and will only succeed in half, says the personal tragedy of --___ --addiction goes far beyond the phy- sical ill effects. "You can't have a trusting re- 1%!0 A Dl Inlationship with anybody w h e n INU, INFOR TIU you have to spend your whole life running after $30 or $40 a day," he maintains.i Dr. Derek Miller of the psy- chiatry department at University eks of pregnancy are Hospital agrees that the addict's k State. There are no problems extend well beyond those t coperaing ospialsof simple physical addiction. Cit- cooperating hospitals ig the need for vocational treat- onsent of' the patient ment centers and other therapu- sician is required. tic measures which are not cur- rently available, he points out pennconsult your that the majority of heroin ad- regnant, yudicts have no wish to stop using Early abortions are drugs. Miller says that treating an ad- dict simply for the addiction is or professional assist- missing the point. Heroin addicts eregistration into are psychologically disturbed, he iate e aon: explains, and Miller consequently linics, telephone: advocates treating the causes of the addiction as well as its symp- IMATION AGENCY, INC. tother agency dealing w it h th STREET drug problems - though not pri- N. Y. 10024 marily with heroin - is Drug Help, Inc. Located at 302 E. Lib- 3-6650 10 P.M. _S A WEEK_ _hezt CrepeI erty, this clinic is a 24 hour walk tion for the city police to investi- in and telephone service, which gate. can be reached by dialing 761- Discounting allegations that the HELP. Police Department is not con- While Drug Help is theraputi- cerned about the apparent growth cally most concerned with hallu- in heroin use, Krasny says, "Ob- cinogens like LSD, it provides in- viously we are concerned. The fact formation to the youth commun- that we are not making arrests is ity on all drugs. Heroin addicts are a nominal part of the concern. The referred to the Summit Street problem is to get to the sources of Clinic, the heroin." Sue Heidrich, who works pri- Some critics of police action on marily with the telephone service, the heroin problem say that more says that calls about heroin prob- arrests could be made based on lems are in the minority of the the increased number of larcenies 30 or so calls a day the c l i n i c believed to be committed by junk- receives. "They have been increas- ies trying to finance their habits, ing, though," she says. Although Krasny and the detective One of the organizers of Drug acknowledge the increase in the Help, Matt Helm, says his organ- past year' in breakings and enter- ization is trying to dispel the ings, the police chief says it is idea that heroin addiction is a impossible to be certain that hero- terminal illness. in addicts are responsible for While the city has not estab- crimes unless they are caught in lished its own drug clinic, Mayor the act and can be proven to be Robert Harris says he is trying to heroin users secure funds through the federal Discussing the change in living Safe Streets Act to aid financing styles, the detective says, "You of the Summit Street Clinic. Har- never used to have students living ris admits there are several ob- together in houses as they do stacles hindering this funding now. More things can occur now plan, but he believes this 'strategy without anything seeming unus- "will all pull together." ual. - Another avenue of drug help The officer also claims that de- may be to get parents of addicted tection is difficult because s o m e children together, Harris says. And dealers make their clients imme- Police Chief Walter Krasny says diately "shoot-up" on the spot the that it would aid police in curb- heroin they have just purchased. ing the heroin problem if parents However, all of the local street would give information to his de- junkies say this does not occur. partment about their children's Working in a different manner use of the drug, than local law enforcement agen- "People who have information ties, the White Panther party has will not work with us to make an initiated an anti-heroin program, apprehension," Krasny laments. still in its early stages. Through Several difficulties occur in try- their magazine, "Sundance," t h e ing to arrest large volume heroin Panthers have launched what they dealers, he says, explaining that term an "educational war" against dealers who are arrested often es- "death drugs." cape legal proceedings by fleeing "The pig drug has taken Janis before results of laboratory tests (Joplin) and (Jimi H endrix and on confiscated substances can be as far as the pigs are concerned it used as evidence by thedpolice, can take the rest of us, too," says The suspect cannot be detained Bill Goodsen, a coordinator of the while the test - which can take party's "anti-smack" campaign. up to two weeks is being run. The Panthers cite heroin and This year the police have a re- amphetamines (speed) as the cord of 87 cases involving hard main threat to the solidarity of narcotics, Krasny says. One de- the youth community. In Ann Ar- tectiveon the force, however, bor, they are working with Tribal notes that only four arrests in- Council, an ad hoc coalition of volving heroin have been made local youth and student groups, this year. And only one of them, to combat the spread of these he says, was a dealer. drugs. This inability to make arrests Heroin dealers will not be ex- stems from two major problems - posed to the police, Goodsen says, lack of coordination of area po- but the campaign will utilize all of lice agencies and a change in life the financial resources available styles - like communal living - to the youth community. among young people in the area This program, like the others, is which makes heroin detection dif- proof of one significant realiza- ficult. tion. Heroin is here. It is not safely The city police have no special confined to the inner core of drug squad, Krasny says, and con- large cities or to Ann St. It is on sequently, the detective division State St., on South University, in has the responsibility for under- high schools and junior highs. Ef- taking investigations into cases forts to deal with the problem involving heroin. Washtenaw have subsequently e m e r g e d County has a drug squad, the through drug help clinics, but chief adds, but he explains that they have made little inroads intr this agency only provides informa- the drug using community. T h e clinics either cannot effectively reach a large majority of the users or the users themselves are not eople present interested in kicking their habits. 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