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Di Dwayne Simpson, director of Ihe^tudy at A&M, said it was actu- ogrum as - |y a f 0 ij ow . U p 0 f the original study. ^ Ua . 1 j C v* ll ie A&M study followed the lives ‘ ‘ ' fSp5 drug addicts over a six-year liod and found that they died at a Mel seven times higher than the enfiral public, and those in their 20s ied at a rate 10 times higher. it the successes P r - George Joe, research scientist le mentor teaftoB&M, said 29 percent of these who give them were due to violence, such as ince." Bjhot wounds, homicides, auto- ni\ disappoiffl® 0 V e accidents and hangings. that he has ^ P9 rt y" e ‘g* lt percent were caused lore school 7 Srug-related incidents, as op- Rd to the most common deaths ied to get sev®B cancer, heart attacks, strokes ti nts involved Bpdents, he said, they backedat-Tf im P son saK l the study was origi- g prompted in 1969 by the large Base in publicly-funded drug latment centers across the coun- strict. The iw periods each 4 s spend a fifth ft eacher. od news, Dei* f both the intemii hers, students brmed as well their more tf rts. find how many people had “cleaned up” over the years and how this would affect the death rate. “We wanted to learn basically what happens over the long haul to these people,” he said. Simpson said one thing they found is that not everyone who un dergoes treatment “cleans up.” Joe attributed this to the fact that most addicts remain in more dan gerous environments. “When you live a lifestyle for a number of years, you tend to con tinue in that same lifestyle,” he said. .6 people passed :ome a candid^ only six werep e said, possiW ;tricts are watj 1 Ti a new prow iggest frustrate laving qualtf' The main purpose of the follow- 1 study was to look at heroin ad- p he said, and the long term ef- :ts|of addiction after undergoing atment. able to place tltfRL, . . said thev a re | Th V hm & that . ls , unique about remedy thr|J tu ^ 1S tl } at n 15 longitudinal — means such: S, sed , on the f ame g r ° u P °/ , .Ur-Puilts that we ve studied for 12 rnships similarf J? ~ which is different than most 1 waies seen in literature, Simpson fill “We can look at information Elected many years ago and see if se factors are useful in predicting iquent deaths in that same up of individuals.” He said researchers wanted to ‘Even though a person is not involved with drugs any longer, he often will remain involved with a certain lifestyle — a dan gerous one. ” — Dr. George Joe, A&M research scientist “Even though a person is not in volved with drugs any longer, he of ten will remain involved with a cer tain lifestyle — a dangerous one.” Simpson agreed that the large ur ban areas studied, which by nature are more dangerous, played a big E art in the rates of deaths di : ed due to vio lence and drugs. “Although they (addicts) may not be shooting heroin anymore, there is a large portion of drug addicts who begin to use other drugs and still are living in a ‘drug culture,’ ” Simpson said. “These peopi dency to use alcohol at a higher rate than the typical population,” he said. However, Simpson said this type of environment was the only one in the study. “This is the environment which we found the drug addicts in to be gan with, ” he said. “The way the drug addicts got into our sample was by living in those areas where treat ment programs were first being es tablished in late ’60s.” Simpson said this is a bias, or a “feature selection,” of the study, since the people who come to pub licly-funded treatment centers are usually from lower income areas. However, Simpson said, the death rates found were still higher than the the typical rates in those neigh borhoods. Simpson said other factors came into play, such as higher crime rates in urban areas, multiple drug use and higher alcohol use. Another factor affecting the death rates is the aging of the people in the original sample, he said. The people studied are now 35 to 40 years old, he said, so the natural death rate is increasing while other risk factors, like illicit drug use, are decreasing. “There are several cross currents, so it is Very hard to make simple statements about what is causing what,” he said. The higher death rate due to drug addiction isn’t getting better or worse, he said. “It’s getting different,” he said. “When we began the study, the na tional focus was on heroin addiction. Today, cocaine is much more popu lar. Drug using patterns of addicts now are much more mixed than in the past. “All these things make study more complicated — we can’t say the death rates are only due to heroin addiction anymore. It’s just getting more and more complicated.” SMILE FOR YOUR FAMILY’S GENERAL DENTAL CARE * CLEANING, EXAM, & X-RAYS *Call for Appointment. 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Tidlothian, atfl'lt represents for us Salvadorans lot twice in tfif “ a t |we don’t have hope with the Iraident Jose Napoleon) Duarte they had sui pYernment,” said Oswaldo Escobar, “ school as an Salvadoran and spokesman for the KChers as they headed down Farm js, ked not toh ®ad 1479 toward Harlingen, tr. lie officer. & Viim abouta t- er ' :,ert ^ ,rnesto ^ na y a ’ president L «es mv dad.b'f ^e Salvadoran Human Rights n 19 said lontission, was gunned down d j m-ner aid pday morning in San Salvador by own he'd haw ! unknown assailant. ’ l|he mostly Salvadoran group of ^artmentwasf' ^ 20 started from Refugio del o Grande, a cooperative in the city of Rangerville for Central Ameri cans seeking political asylum. “We’re going to stop by the Bor der Patrol and let them know we are political refugees, not economic ref ugees,” Escobar said. “We want per mission to go out of the Valley.” Applicants for asylum and others in the Rio Grande Valley appealing deportation often are allowed to re main in the United States, provided they stay in a restricted area of South Texas. “We are political refugees and want to be treated as such,” one sign said in Spanish. U.S. Immigration and Naturali- zaion Service spokesman Virginia Kice with the agency’s Harlingen District office said all applicants for asylum are reviewed on a case-by case basis, regardless of nationality. After stopping at the Border Pa trol office, the protesters walked sev eral miles chanting slogans and sing ing in front of the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve Training Center in Harlingen. Anaya, 32, was the fourth mem ber of the human-rights commission to be assassinated since 1980. Two other members disappeared while in police custody. The commission, founded in 1977, is an independent private or ganization made up of lawyers and other professionals. It has been crit ical of the Salvadoran government’s human-rights record during a 8- year-old war with leftist guerrillas. Rightists with the military have ac cused it of having leftist sympathies. ARE WE HELPING OR HURTING? Panel Discussion: Dr. James Christiansen Dr. W. 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