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By Tony Harris ;
Jasper Ormood
Editors note: The writers of <Ws
article are lonner Drug Addicts.
They are now attending a major
university and work for a successful
drug program.
Our acceptance of certain lifedeteriorating
indulgences, often
allows a very dealy situation to
exist, unchecked. Society defines
what a drug is, and the social
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the substance described.
Cigarette smoking has become a
socially and culturally
established habit and is a prime
example of society's acceptance
of a major health hazard. Alcohol
is another very good example of
this. Of all the available drugs, it
is a slight margin of difference
between cigarettes and alcohol as
the major cause of death in the
United States. Cigarettes, which
contains the powerful and toxic
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satisfies the major criterion for
classification as a drug, both
being psycho-active substances.
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Cigarettes are 'generally
classified as stimulants.
Nicotine, the psycho-active agent
in tobacco, taken in sufficient,
dosage can be as hazardous as
any currently available blackmarket
drug. About half of all
adults in the United States, or
close to 80 million people, smoke
regularly. About 50,000
Americans die each year from
lung cancer, the major cause of
which is cigarette smoking.
In a survey made this year for
the National Clearinghouse for
Smoking and Health, it was found
that teen-age cigarette use is on
the rise. The 1974 survey of 2,553
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cent of boys ages 12 through 18,
said they smoke regularly. The
figure for girls is 15.3 per cent, a
sharp increase from past years.
The Clearinghouse estimated
there are about 4 million tenn-age
cigarette smokers in the country
today.
In a report prepared for the
North Carolina Drug Authority,
1-rem-a-study directed by Dr. Carl
I '. Chambers, it was emphasized
that the best means of projecting
?thenumber of future drug users
is by the number of teen-age
cigarette smokers.
Alcohol is classified as a
depressant because of its
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nervous system. It is also an
anesthetic, deadening pain in the
body.
The effects of alcohol is highly
dependent on the dose taken. A
dose is determined by bloodalcohol
concentration and
directly dependent on: the
concentration of alcohol in a
niven beverage, the amount of
food in the stomach, and the size
of the drinker. At a .1 per cent
alcohol-blood level the following
effects occur: a serious drop in
the natural ability to react
quickly, a decrease in coorI
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Alcohol is one of the most
serious problems in the country
today. In North Carolina, alone, a
recent study reported there are
nearly 2 million drinkers of
which 200,000 are listed in the
heavy usage category. The Heavy
users appear to be males age 25
to 34 and females lft-24 years of
age. According tu a study conducted
for the North Carolina
Drug Authority, there is a heavy
usage by ratio in the 14 to 17 year
old age group.
Dr. - Arthrur McBey, a
toxicologist. with the' state
medical examiner's office stated,
last year that alcohol was the
chief cause of death among teenagers
in the 15-19 age group and
alcohol is involved in nearly all
violent deaths in groups over the
age of 15.
There have been several
studies that attempted to make a
correlation between drinkirtg and
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studies seem to agree with each
other that cigarette smoking and
drinking were separate conditioned
behaviors. One such
study conducted at Fort Ruckers,
Ala. Alcoholism treatment
program pointed out that the
more the alcoholics drank the
more they smoked. The
alcoholics averaged 49 cigarettes
a day compared to non alcoholic
drinkers who smoked only
12.5 cigarettes a day.
The final test of the study
showed that the alcoholics who
had stopped drinking for at least
one month continue to smoke just
as heavy as before they stopped
drinking.
Alcohol addiction is running
rampant throughout all levels of
society. Alcohol addiction is
growing at. an unbelieveable
pace. Alcohol has always been
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person, but this belief is rapidly
changing because of the number
of young persons who are now
heavily involved.
Rehabilitation from alcohol
?addiction- is a very long and
painful process, but it is not
impossible. One of the main
threats of individuals seeking
rehabilitation is the fact that
alcohol is legal and socially
accepted. Practically
everywhere you go socially there
are alcoholic beverages. This
fact means that the individual
must control his social contacts
to the point of not setting himself
up in a situation that test his will
power and concentration constantly,
especially during the
first year of rehabilitation. These
facts make it very important that
the person seeking help get involved
with persons or groups
having similar problems.
Why do people in this society
experience so many problems
with alcohol and other types of
drug addiction. Meaningful
employment is one major
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problem for most people. Not
only is it hard to find a job, but it
is even harder to find a Job you
like. Working everyday on a job
you do not like Increases the
pressures of living, which are
already.affected by maintaining
your family, keeping good health
and paying bills. One problem
area rarely talked about is
leisure time. If you have a job you
do not like, this makes you tense
and strained just simply trying to
deal with it everyday. Once you
leave work and begin to operate
on your own time, what you do
with this time is very important.
Many people prefer to do nothing
or very little after work* often
calling- this lack of activity
relaxing.
People who seem dedicated to
their jobs because they seem to
be working all the nme, and .
never seem to have time to play
are very frustrated people and
are very non-living.
Extreme business whether at
school or college, or market, is a
symptom of deficient vitality.
Some people have dwarfed and'
narrowed their lives to all work
and no play. It is not by any
means certain that, ar man's
business is the most important
thing he has to do.
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values, interests, skills, and
opportunities to use increasing
free time constructively, there
will be more boredom, despair,
and pessimism as well as submission
to destructive stimuli
like alcohol and tobacco.
For too long now, we have
approached cigarette smoking
and the drinking of alcohol from
the basic principle of diverted
gaze" in their relevance to other
drugs. If we would stop a minute
and look around us at our family,
friends, and the community, we
will see the evidence of human
destruction caused by these two
negative human dependencies.
The black community has
especially been plagued by the
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of the number of black
lives that have been destroyed
and are being destroyed daily-by
alcohol opposed to the more
publicized drugs^ such as heroin,would
show the destructive effects
of alcohol in our communities
overshadows all of the
other drugs. It is time that we as
human beings divert our gazes in
the direction of those negative
factors that have been accepted
by society.
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1. A Felony - A serious crime :
which may be punishable by
death or imprisonment in the
state prison tor more than one
year. For example, .murder,
robbery or burglary are considered
felonious offences.
2. A Misdemeanor - any other
crime . punishable by imprisonment
for less than one
year, for example, disorderly
conduct, trespass, assault^ ?.nd^
bflttcry.
3. Violation of " a City
Ordinance, lor (*xample,
violation of the housing code, or
violation of zoning ordinances.
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example, speeding, reckless
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Do you know that a policeman
may arrest you:
a. When hie has a warrant for
your arrest?
b. When he sees you commit a
felony or misdemeanor? '
c. When he has reason to,'
believe that a felony jafc
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mitted and that you are the guilty
party.
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A warrant is an order for your
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If :you resist, arrest, a
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restrained, he cannot continue to
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