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College Station, Texas
Thursday, March 13, 1969
THE BATTALION
TELLS OF RAY’S CONVICTION
Attorney Percy Foreman stands outside the Shelby County Courthouse and tells news
men of the trial and conviction of his client, James Earl Ray, who moments before had
been convicted and sentenced to 99 years for the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King
Jr. (AP Wirephoto)
Drug Abuse ‘Caricatures’
Past Cure-Alls, Dean Says
Young people’s abusive use of
drugs is a caricaturization of the
preceding generation’s failures
and an extremely complex prob
lem, a medical expert declared
here.
“Dependency on drugs and cure-
alls as answers to things is part
of our culture,” Dr. Joe P. Tupin
summarized Tuesday to a Health
Education Seminar audience.
The psychiatrist and associate
dean of medicine at the Univer-
site of Texas Medical Branch in
Galveston said people have always
had pet remedies for what ails
them.
WHEN I was a kid, the penacea
was immersing a cut, scratched
or aching hand in kerosene. I’m
sure that the only benefits may
have been the suffocation of a
few germs,” he smiled.
The Galveston psychiatric re
search director who has worked
with mind-expanding drug users
and researched drug use among
teenagers said the present prob
lem isn’t isolated and inseparable
from previous habits of society.
‘‘Our children have merely cari
catured this point,” he suggested.
Tupin noted that since 1953 when
tranquilizers went on the market,
70 per cent of medicinal expendi
tures have been for psychoactives
such as tranquilizers, pain-killers,
sedatives and anti-depressants.
“WE HAVE an equal problem
in the misuse of legitimate drugs,”
he noted.
Tupin said patterns of usage
can be discerned by type of col
lege-university or urban-rural
high school, but whether the in
stitution attracts the drug habi-
tuant or causes the student to be
come a user is like the “chicken-
before-the-egg question.”
“Drug use among college stu
dents varies between five and
75 per cent of the student body,”
he continued, “and the frequency
seems to correlate with the intel
lectual climate.”
Tupin’s figures show that small
liberal arts colleges with high
faculty-to-student ratios general
ly have the biggest problem, with
more than 50 per cent of the
student body drug abusers to
some degree.
THE BROADER-BASED col
lege with a more heterogeneous
student group, such as Harvard,
runs less than 50 per cent, he
added. Larger state institutions
might range from five to 20 per
cent of the student body and the
average small state teachers col
lege or Catholic college has less
than five per cent.
“High schools have the same
problem on the same approximate
scale, with the urban school in
the higher brackets. But even
rural schools have the problem
and I think anyone investigating
drug usage in a school should
assume that at least some will be
found,” Tupin remarked.
He classified users into three
categories according to frequency
of involvement with hallucinagens,
whether LSD, solvent sniffers or
marijuana smokers.
FIRST, THERE’S the ‘taster,’
who is experimenting, sticking a
finger in his environment. He may
take dope one or two times,”
Tupin said.
He indicated ‘seekers’ are oc
casional but consistent users,
every two week or longer.
“These are the curious and con
cerned individuals who question
values and abstract phenomena.
They are more concerned with
ideas than actions, intangibles
over tangibles. They are also
among the better students,” the
Texas-Austin graduate stated.
“The ‘heads,’ which come from
headers, acid heads or pot heads,
take drugs at least every two
weeks or more frequently,” Tupin
continued. “Their usage is an
integral part of their life exper
ience. The head uses drugs as a
means to understand life and the
use is an end in itself. We feel
this group really has psychopath-
ological problems, and in most
cases, were sick before they be
gan using drugs.”
He noted that science must
learn a great deal more about
the long-term effects of mari
juana and LSD on human physi
ology before medical experts can
say that a drug itself is detrimen
tal to life.
New York University will take
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