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trnent ofMettt'
tudy: Treatment for heroin
on’t cure abuse of drugs
By Janet Goode
Staff Writer
Heroin addicts die at a higher rate
the average person even after
f OP-g-g treatment, Texas A&M
OTl I I VHRirchers found.
Rhe study, whicii was completed
at A&M and published in March,
psl part of a 12-year nationwide
(tudy that followed the lives of about
$,000 drug addicts in urban areas.
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.”
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Central American refugees carry coffin
fo protest murder of human-rights activist
an adultbecai ; -'
she plans to fij
al as anadulta> , |
|RANGERVILLE (AP) — Central
fense, and 1fcerican refugees carried an empty
i of the law. : Wfin to U.S. government offices
► Hipleysaid. Tuesday in protest of the murder of
believe was l3 ( (feading human-rights activist in El
found dead Evador.
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. Alex McIntosh
Dr. John Norris
Dr. Dwayne Suter
moderator - Dr. James T. Goodwin
THURSDAY OCTOBER 29, 1987
301 RUDDER
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