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Drugcdun I By KAREN M. HANNON I Chronicle Staff Writer I I Using scare tactics to get coI caine users to stop the habit does Jnot work, says Richard I McDonald, educational assistant I for the Council on Drug Abuse. I McDonald spoke about the efjfects of cocaine on first-round idfraft pick Len Bias and j C cvcland Browns defensive back 11 on Rogers at a Greater Winston j i iwanis meeting at the Hyatt ! I ouse last week. I "These deaths of two wellIV lown athletes will make people J t link, but after the issue dies I cfewn in the media, the whole | thing wilU be forgotten/* I McDonald said. "Addiction | among pro athletes is not new, j it's just come up in the media . I recently because of their deaths." I McDonald said he estimates I A .... uiai mc cnemicaiiy addictive ! drug, which has been used for I thousands of years, has 5,000 I new users every day. ' | Today's cocaine is of a higher ! purity, sells in larger amounts I and is more available than ever ""before. Contrary to previous "Stereotypes, cocaine is no longer a drug for the rich, white-collar worker. "Cocaine doesn't have economic, social or racial boundaries anymore," McDonald said. "Some of your local factory 1'orkers can afford it now. It oesn't matter what status you re.'* An imitation of cocaine c&lled 'crack," a relatively new drug on tie scene, is available at a much heaper price and sold in "readyto-use" bags for $10 to $30. Although its use is not as .prevalent in the Winston-Salem area as in cities such as New York, an increase in the use of this more addictive drug is said to be expected in this area because of its inexpensiveness. According to statistics from the Council on Drug Abuse, about 20 percent of school-age siuacnis nave triea crack; t or 7 --p+rcent-ar* regular users. "People once saw cocaine as 'psychologically addictive.' Since then, we have found that it is more than that; it's a powerful, reinforcing drug," McDonald said. <=" Forsyth Memorial | issues sickle cell update Sickle cell anemia first became known as a health problem 70 years ago, and in the time since, doctors have learned how the disease is inherited, how to detect it and how to treat the health problems it causes. No one has yet found a cure, however. Researchers are looking for a drug or chemical that can prevent red blood cells from sickling the process associated with jhe disease. In some people, the red blood cells can alter from their normal round shape to an abnormal sickle shape. When the tendency for this condition si inherited from one parent, the offspring has sickle cell trait, a condition affecting one in 12 black Americans. When the tendency is inherited from both parents, the individual has sickle cell anemia, which hits one in every 500 black Americans. Because of the sickle-shaped red cells in their blood, people who have the disease experience unpredictable pain attacks, caused when the cells plug the blood vessels. /tan qIca Krinn nn A IIV W19VCUV van wov Ul UI5 VII other serious health problems, such as stroke or retinitis. But the notion that most sickle cell anemia victims do not live into adulthood is an outdated one. With ongoing medical care and counseling, most people with the . disease can lead satisfying lives. A traditional treatment pro* ? gram encompasses diet, pnysicai activity and medications such as " antibiotics, since the disease makes it hard for a child to fight infection. Researchers are also looking at radically new and experimental treatments like the sickle cell Please see page A12 t 11 ???? *1 W 1 cil official s "The chcmicals in these drugs are known to destroy human relationships in general," he said. "When people are under the influence of these drugs, they sometimes lose a lot of their morals and lose all concern for their family and friends." McDonald said that during the 1960s, when drug use increased, some people began stealing television sets and anything else to get the mnncv to cnnnnrt tUmlr ^ TOppWl 11IV 11 | W 2 NEW STORE W TO SERVE YOl EES PEI Choose from Pepsi, Pepsi I Mountain Dew. DIET PRINKS ~!^BHX/ONDERFO? {^^wonderfoilM I WOjVOfHi 12"X 2! R ? WONDE Regularly 2 for M. 25 foe 12 inch aluminum foil. L 59V1 FOAM fff Jgzd PLATES f^-^0 Regularly 99*. i 25 pack L Kordite plates.^ 25Wates ^ . v hfczM _ _i jL M 13 ggcggbt FC ?- -1 QnAutataH \~~~f "f? - CI ' cups i?< * >? re F-?51 r- -: QUI l: ^ ~t" I Lin 77* B havoline rsmi MOTOR OIL I^Sl Rifl. To 1.09 c9 EjH Havoline HD30 or 10W40 motor I oil. Limit 5 qts. Prices Qood At These Store! Tuesday While Quantities La Limited On Some items. No tresses druj habits. "It has to be powerful if it makes people do things they would not normally do," he said. He also said that there are different steps which lead to addiction. Addiction begins with experimenting. Next follows use, misuse, abuse and addiction. Referring to Bias, McDonald said, "He was evidently an experimenter, a first-time user." whether or not cocaine is a I constant high is debatable. "At I the start of usage, it gives a high, 1 BM. 1 Winn lira i f ?"<i* Our N?w jJ|l Midway Store I I Old Hickory PHKKV I Tree N2E5H5?2lifi2Md y m I tr?h jTTrWfWW j . jpT, ^ I ^ i Through ^^^JJftfi^Ja1 (St. Quantities *?* OM Htf?n??y sa. MMi Salts To Dealers. , 9 g habit dan but once the drug's effects die down, depression sets in," McDonald said. "And this depression is at a much greater level than noijxial depression. You've been up on this high for so long that when you come down, you don't come down to where you started from; you go' below that level to make up for the high." 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