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Drug Awareness’ comes to A&M
enter looks to provide ‘Directions to New Attitude’ on campus
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lajority ofptlg Although “Just Say No” is perhaps the most
'ge today known anti-drug slogan in the country, the
I think ili exas A&M Center for Drug Prevention and Ed-
. • • cation hopes to build upon that idea with the
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Ions to a New Attitude.”
Similar to Alcohol Awareness Week that was
Jponsored during the fall, Drug Awareness
en throuj;li /eek at A&M is a spin-off of the National Colle-
1 make ad# iate's Drug Awareness Week, Ann Coombes, as-
stant coordinator at the center, said.
Although Alcohol Awareness Week had a vari-
ty of programs to educate students, Coombes
lid the center decided to put more emphasis on
1 always 1(Jsmaller number of activities for this event.
i‘H “We decided to tone things down from Alco-
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' f IM Awareness Week and generate more energy
n it tor a f ew er number of activities and make them
s like lor- (juality activities,” she said.
degree sow The week officially begins Feb. 6 and ends
ie. ; Feb. 10. Throughout the week, the center will
I lave a resource table in the MSC with different
Ipes of information available about drugs. Dif
ferent organizations will be at the table on differ-
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[“The Corps and APO have already agreed to
.. . help with the table,” she said. “We’re hoping to
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Also, we are trying to get the DPS office to set up
their drug display for one day.”
Coombes said the Student Y plans to incorpo
rate part of its Big Hug event into Drug Aware
ness Week because the two events are the same
week.
“They’re going to try and get bumper stickers
made up that say, ‘Give Hugs — Not Drugs,’ ”
she said.
The first main program, a presentation for
faculty, staff and students, will be Feb. 8. Spon
sored by Parkside Emergency Services, MSC
Great Issues, the Drug Awareness Committee
and the center, the presentation will focus on co
caine, crack and designer drugs, Coombes said.
“Our activities for drug awareness week differ
from the alcohol awareness week also in that the
programs for alcohol awareness week focused
more on students, and drug awareness week is
focused on students but also on faculty and
staff,” she said.
“A lot of faculty members have children and
are going to be interested in the questions this
presentation will cover, such as how drugs are
done, where you get them and how they’re trea
ted.”
The other major event for the week will be
Feb. 9. As a spin-off of MTV’s game show, “Re
mote Control,” the center will help sponsor a
game called the “Drug Control Game.” Contes
tants will be drawn from various student lead
ership organizations, Coombes said.
“We hope to have student leaders from stu
dent government, the Corps and we’ll probably
have Reveille,” she said. “Questions about drug
usage and prevention will be included in the
game.”
Although Coombes said the center hopes to
have an impact on A&M, she said drugs have not
been a major problem at the University.
“That’s probably because of the conservative
nature of the school,” she said. “It could also
stem from the evolution from the military.”
While A&M ranks relatively low in comparison
to other metropolitan schools’ drug problems,
Coombes said some areas require attention.
“We still rank alcohol as a drug, and there is a
high incidence of alcohol abuse on this campus,”
she said. “Marijuana and cocaine have also been
seen here, as well as designer drugs such as
ecstacy. So we do have a reason to sponsor a drug
awarness week.
“However, hopefully the events we have
planned for the week will at least start educating
people to what drugs really are and what they
can do to you.”
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Lawmaker wants to suspend
licenses of school dropouts
AUSTIN (AP) — Some high
school dropouts could have their
driver’s licenses suspended for one
year under a bill announced Thurs
day by a state lawmaker who says it’s
time to try new ways to keep stu
dents in school.
“I do not believe that public rela
tions campaigns alone can effectively
discourage students from dropping
out,” Rep. EL d d i e L u c i o, D -
Brownsville, said.
“I think that this (driving) is a
privilege that especially students in
high school like and cherish, and if it
in any way is endangered, hopefully
this would motivate them to con
tinue (in school),” Lucio said at a
news conference.
Lucio said that under his bill,
school districts would be required to
notify the Texas Department of
Public Safety of a student who drops
out. The student then would have
his or her driving privileges revoked
for up to a year, he said.
The DPS couldn’t reinstate a li
cense before one year unless the stu
dent re-enrolled in school and had
been in attendance for a full semes
ter without any unexcused absences.
The bill is expected to be changed
to allow exceptions for special cases,
Lucio said, such as students who
drop out for economic reasons and
must drive to work, or those who
earn a high-school equivalency di
ploma.
Lucio also said he would work to
ensure the bill would not conflict
with the compulsory attendance law,
which requires students to attend
school through the year of their 16th
birthday.
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Study: social support,
stress reduction delay
development of AIDS
By Holly Beeson
REPORTER
Positive thinking, social sup
port and stress reduction may
help delay the time it takes for a
person infected with the AIDS vi
rus to develop the fatal disease.
Dr. Karl Goodkin, psychiatrist
and assistant professor of psy
chiatry at the University of Texas
Southwestern Medical Center at
Dallas, said a report containing
these findings is preliminary and
part of an ongoing longitudinal
study.
A patient goes through two
stages before developing acquired
immune deficiency syndrome.
The first stage is the appear
ance of the immunodeficiency vi
rus (HIV). An infected person
may remain virtually symptom-
free for years and may not test
positive for a variable length of
time after being exposed to the
virus.
The intermediate stage, or pre-
AIDS stage, is AIDS-related com
plex (ARC). The time it takes to
develop AIDS after being in
fected with HIV is extremely va
riable, ranging from three
months to eight years.
“Lor this reason, my colleagues
and I think psychosocial factors
may play a part in that variability
by extending that time,” Goodkin
said.
Goodkin’s study included 40
homosexual males, some who
were infected with HIV but had
not progressed to AIDS. Others
in the study either were not HIV-
infected or had been diagnosed
as having AIDS or ARC.
Results of his study showed
that those who had HIV but had
not progressed to AIDS had less
stress in their lives, more social
support and more effective wavs
of coping with stress than either
the non-infected group oW the
group that had progressed to
AIDS or ARC.
“In our research we’re trying
to find a psychosocially at-risk
population of people who don’t
have symptoms but have been ex
posed to the virus,” Goodkin said.
In some cases he believes in us
ing denial instead of acceptance
of the disease.
“Denial is best used when HIV
positive patients have no symp
toms at all,” Goodkin said. “We
encourage them to do things such
as exercise regularly, get enough
sleep, and avoid alcohol and drug
use, cigarette smoking and caf
feine intake.”
If someone tests positive for
HIV and continues to abuse
drugs, drink alcohol or smoke
cigarettes, the disease is more
likely to progress rapidly, he said.
“All of this is highly speculati
ve,” Goodkin said. “We will need
follow-up studies with larger
groups before we can be confi
dent that we have an association
of stress and coping styles with
progression of HIV.”
Dr. Howard Kaplan, Texas
A&M professor of sociology, said
Goodkin’s findings are consistent
with other findings that stress-re
lated phenomena are correlated
with changes in the functioning
of the immune system.
Kaplan is doing similar re
search on how stress might be as
sociated with immune func
tioning.
“I think Dr. Goodkin’s work is
definitely worth further investi
gation,” he said.
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