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Use of LSD-like drug increasing
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gers have joined the nation in the
growing use of phencyclidine, the
powdery, white substance known on
the streets as PCP or Angel Dust.
There were two reported cases of
PCP overdose in Brazos County last
year as compared to none in previ
ous years, said Debbie Callaway,
Regional Drug Abuse Coordinator
for the Brazos Valley Development
Center.
"It’s hard to measure that type of
drug abuse. Many people are un
aware of its existance and effects and
so they don’t realize it’s Angel
Dust,” she said.
When PCP overdose victims ar
rive at the hospital, many times the
type of drug is unidentifiable, she
said. As a result, there may have
been PCP involved in the many
cases she handled that were attrib
uted to unknown causes.
PCP is used as a tranquilizer for
non-human primates. However,
since 1976, PCP has begun to ap
pear throughout the nation as the
new "high.
“It’s like LSD was at one time,”
said Pete Sanchez, drug education
specialist at the Brazos County
Mental Health-Mental Retardation
Center.
Some effects of PCP are “disas-
sociation” of the mind and n^iscles;
unresponsiveness to pain; being
awake, but unaware of one’s
environment, and occasional hal
lucinations.
"There have been cases of people
doing superhuman things while
under the influence of PCP,’ 1 San
chez said, “like fighting off ten guys,
or lifting a refrigerator. But PCP
doesn’t give you actual strength,
just psycholoracal strength.”
PCP was developed in the mid-
1950s. Following studies in labora
tory animals, it was recommended
for clinical trials in humans in 1957.
Because of the adverse side ef
fects, Parke, Davis and Co., the
manufacturer of PCP under the pa
tent name, recommended in 1965
that use of the drug be stopped in
treatment of humans. In 1967, the
drug was manufactured exclusively
for veterinary purposes under the
trade name Semylan.
Dr. James D. McCrady, head of
the physiology and pharmacology
department in the College, of Vet
erinary Medicine at Texas A&M
University, said the drug was used
at Texas A&M at one time, but it is
not used any more.
"We don’t use it out here. We re
just very afraid of it,” said McCrady.
Veterinarians agree the profes
sional demand for PCP is small. Be
cause the drug is not used much
professionally, authorities say most
of the PCP in circulation is
homemade.
The drug is cheap and easy to
make, and is often sold to unknow
ing drug users as THC, a derivative
of marijuana.
* PCP has also been passed off as
cocaine and, in combination with
LSD, as mescaline.
Often the unknowing buyer of
PCP will begin to have sensations
and reactions he is not accustomed
to with THC or cocaine, and he will
panic. The panic increases with the
effects of the drug.
Along with this danger, there is
the possibility of getting an impure
drug from a street pusher.
"As with any drug that is not ob
tained through propfrr channels,”
said Hazel Pipkin, a pharmicist at
the Pharmacy Box, "you run the risk
of not knowing what you are actually
taking. This alone can be danger-
■ OUS.”
"Were right in the middle of a
big drug-traffic highway between
Houston and Dallas,” said Sanchez.
"I think most of it is delivered from
other places.”
The adverse effects, such as lack
of memory, that PCP users experi
ence seem to increase with regular
use. After a period, use of alcohol
can bring about mild forms of
flashbacks, and alcohol mixed with
PCP can greatly increase the chance
of an overdose or death.
No one seems know if the use
of PCP is going to increase in Brazos
Valley or fade away as in the brief
one-year period of use in 1967 in
San Francisco when PCP came out
as the "Peace Pill.”
Nyberg said he felt there might
be an increase before there was a
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Drug abuse is a growing
problem at Texas A&M
Strikers adamant
in Birmingham
Unitodl Press loternstiofial .
BIRMINGHAM, Ala — Striking police and sanitation workers de
fied a back-to-work order Thursday while garbage piled up and mer
chants began arming themselves to protect their goods.
Firemen were threatening to join the 2,000 other striking worker*,
who have brought services in the state’s largest city to a virtual halt.
Mayor David Vann accused leaders of striking city workers of keep
ing employees off the job for reasons other than those given for the
strike.
City employees walked off their jobs Tuesday saying they were
dissatisfied with the city’s changes in their group health insurance
poBcy • r »
“The question today is who is going to run the City of Birmin
gham," Vann told a Thursday news conference.
1 The mayor said he did not believe the strike could be settled only
by giving workers the medical coverage they want. He said the
strike’s primary objective now was to support a collective bargaining
hill for public employees in the Alabama Legislature.
In the absence of regular police patrols, skeleton crews, bolstered
by sheriffs deputies and state troopers, answered only emergency
calls. ■ •
Several downtown merchants interviewed said they were arming
* themselves and taking some of their merchandise out of display win
dows in anticipation of burglaries going up.
Police reported a generally quiet night, with no more than normal
calls, despite skeleton police patrols made up of supervisory person
nel and state troopers. All but emergency calls have been ignored
since the strike began.
, The police strike in Birmingham was the third such walkout in
major cities of the South in less than a year. Memphis police struck
last August in a pay dispute and New Orleans police walked off their
jobs last February during Mardi Gras. In addition, police, firemen
and sanitation workers in Nashville, Tenn., are threatening to strike
over wages. '
About 350 fire-fighters voted late Wednesday to join the strike’,
although a technicality in the union’s regulations requires one more
vote be taken. The final vote was scheduled for Thursday night and
the firemen were expected to join the ranks of the strikers.
About 650 firefighters voted to strike Tuesday-night when the
walkout began.
The strikers have been ordered back to work by a state judge*, who
ruled Wednesday the walkout was illegal. But the strikers refused to
1 go back to work and ignored Vann’s plea to return. p .
The judge's order, said James Purvis, business manager for the
Laborer’s International Union, “is just going to make a few people
nervous, but I don't think anyone is going back.”
The strike virtually shut down service in the city Wednesday.
Police, sanitation and street workers and other city employees
voted to strike Tuesday night after the .City Council refused to re
scind its earlier decision to switch insurance plans.
The plan proposed by Vann called for switching from Blue Cross-r
Blue Shield to a self-funded insurance plan administered by Liberty
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Vann proposed the switch because Blue Cross moved its state
headquarters outside the city.
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administer the plan because of the strike. Vann said he regretted the
decision, but he refused to waiver in his stand to changt? the insur-
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By ANGELIQUE COPELAND
Battalion Reporter
Joe’s parents think he has a part-
time job while attending Texas
A&M University, and in a way he
does. .
Once or twice a week he delivers
a few pounds of marijuana and a few
grams of methamphetamines to
friends on campus. Joe has made
about $1,000 this semester on his
"job. ’
'Tom Parsons, director of security
and traffic for the University Policed
said. "We know dam well that there
are more (drugs) out there than that,
but we don’t go snooping around
looking for them."
The only time police find drugs or
other controlled substances is when
they are discovered in the in
ventories of towed vehicles or when
they are found during the investiga
tion of a non drug-related offense.
Parsons said.
"Narcotics in the county doesn’t
get worked because w’e don’t have
the people,” said Brazos County
Sheriff Bobby Yeager.
Von Allen, narcotics officer for
the Department of Public Saftey,
said many officers also feel it is not
worth the paperwork to file an arrest
report because the courts "will not
do anything about them anyway."
Of the 307 .drug arrests in Brazos
County in 1978, only 110 cases were
actually filed in the County Court’s
office.
A student source contacted two
dealers who operate in the commu
nity and employ-students to distrib
ute drugs on campus.
One dealer. “Frank," said he sold
an average of 12 pounds of
marijuana per week. The marijuana,
valued at $ 150-5600 per pound, de
pending on the quality, is occasion
ally sold in hulk deals of up to 300
pounds.
Frank said he also sells a large
number of stimulants during the
weeks of mid-term and final exams.
He sold 1,300 pills during dead
week last year, he said.
The other dealer,"Mike,’ trades
primarily in cocaine. He estimates
he handles an average of 6 ounces
(28 grams per ounce) a week. He
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declinced to estimate his income,
but said dealing was his only occu
pation and he made a “good liveli
hood.
A better explanation for the lack
oL official concern might be the
stigma attached to drug: abuse, said
Debbie Callaway, Regional De
veloper for Alcohol and Drug Abuse
planning of the Brazos Valley De-
velopement Council.
The big guys don't want A&M in
a bad light," she said.
The central location of College
Station in relation to other major
cities and the general affluence of
the students makes Texas A&M an
ideal drug market, she said.
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