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EAST LANSING (UPI)-The choice
between striking and crossing picket
P a n e llines to csre for patients is so wren-
ching thst some nurses quit rsther thsn
~ fsce it, sccording to psrticipants in s
eX RiIii1iiU S national conference on professionsl
ethics.
* At the conference-funded by the
National Endowment for the
Humsnities-12 nursing fsculty mem-
weighed the positive snd negative
S OS sspects of nursing strikes snd psr-
ticularly this past spring's walkout at
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University Hospital in Ann Arbor.
A CONCENSUS was reached that
striking is a mortal and ethical decision
that depends greatly on the individual
situation.
When conditions get bad enough,
many nurses come to believe a strike
would not make matters significantly
worse for their patients, participants
said.
IN THE ANN Arbor case, over-
worked nurses often had to pull double
shifts and had few days off, said June
Guy, associate director of the Michigan
Nurses Association. Several years ago,
she said, a young nurse died after ap-
parently falling asleep at the wheel
while driving home from a double shift.
Martin Benjamin, a Michigan State
University professor of philosophy and
coordinator of the conference, said the
"guilt" many nurses face when con-
fronted with these ethical issues makes
many want to quit rather than strike.
During the Ann Arbor strike, Guy
said, counceling was arranged both for
nurses who were picketing and those
left to tend to patients.
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AMA studies pot smoking hazards
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CHICAGO (UPI)-Frequent use of marijuana over
prolonged periods can lead to serious problems in the
brain, circulatory system, heart, lungs and nervous
system, the American Medical Association warned
yesterday.
The AMA said recent studies indicate concen-
trations of THC, the active ingredient in marijuana,
are steadily increasing-from 1 percent in 1970 to 5
percent in 1979-and pose a threat to vital organs.
"STRUCTURAL changes occur in the brain with
marijuana use, as well as changes in the patterns of
brain waves," the AMA said in promoting its new
physicians drug abuse handbook.
"Acute marijuana intoxication impairs learning,
memory, thinking, comprehension and general in-
tellectual performance. Even at moderate levels of
social use, driving skills are impaired."
THE AMA SAID marijuana also contains higher
concentrations of cancer-causing hydrocarbons than
tobacco and daily use can lead to bronchitis and em-
physema. -
In women, heavy marijuana use can lead to disrup-
tions of the menstrual cycle, temporary infertility
and miscarriages, the AMA said, and in men can lead
to sperm abnormalities and damage to the male
reproductive organs.
In addition, heavy pot smokers may suffer from
psychological dysfunction, and personality and
emotional problems.
"THE PSYCHOLOGICAL damage may be per-
manent," the AMA warned. "Large doses of THC can
induce hallucinations, delusions and paranoid
feelings. Thinking becomes confused and disoriented.
The initial euphoria may give way to anxiety
reaching panic proportions."
The study did not discuss other health effects of
marijuana use, such as lung damage or hormonal
abnormalities, that some researchers have
associated with the drug.
The AMA noted marijuana is the third most
frequently used drug in the United States, behind only
alcohol and cigarettes. Two-thirds of young adults
say they use the substance and many'are combining
marijuana and alcohol, posing a hazard of more
widespread and severe reactions to the combined ef-
fects of the drug, the AMA said.
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activities back to the government in
Taiwan.)
"If people betray confidences it's ob-
viously very undesirable," said
Shapiro, "the question is: Is it illegal?"
He said the University has no method of
conducting an investigation and that
such a probe should be left, if ap-
propriate, to the F.B.I. and other of-
ficial agencies.
In letters to the chairmen of both the
Human Rights and Asian and Pacific
Affairs subcommittees in the House,
Leach said that possible witnesses for
Congressional hearings to probe the
question of foreign intelligence sur-
veillance at universities could include
the C.I.A., the F.B.I., the Department
of State, university presidents, as well
as political dissidents willing to come
forward.
SHAPIRO SAID he would participate
in such a hearing, but said he could not
testify that there are spies, only that
there are accusations being made about
spying.
University of Minnesota President C.
Peter MaGrath said that he, himself,
"certainly (has) no reason not to
testify." A former University of Min-
nesota sociology student, Rita Yeh, was
recently tried and sentenced to 14 years
in Taiwan.
MaGrath noted the difficult nature of
the allegations.
"Spyingis obviously reprehensible in
the university conimunity'' but you
can't create a network of spies to sur-
vey alleged spies;,he said
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