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Drug abuse is not only in the streets From Page A1 Dr. Mack. He recommends thai patients tell the doctor: ?the names of all prescription and over-the-counter medicines they are taking, including those provided by other physicians and ?any problems they have had or are having with medicines, ?about smoking habits, which could interfere with the effective ness of some prescription medicines. Educating patients is good, however, the average American doctor is writing too many pre scriptions, said one physician and professor at Harvard Medical School. One of the most common drugs prcscribcd by physicians is propoxyphene, an analgesic most commonly known by one of its brand names. Darvon, MsTShell explained. The drug is widely pre scribed to alleviate mild to moder ate pain, yet controlled studies show it to be, at best, no more effective a pain reliever than aspirin or acetaminophen (Tylenol)," she said. Propoxyphene has a number of unpleasant side effects, includ ing dizziness, drowsiness, nausea and vomiting. It can be dangerous when combined with alcohol and is addictive. "In a study completed in 1983, Ms. Shell continued, "over doses of the drug were blamed for roughly a thousand deaths a year, only about halt of which were sui cides." Some medical experts con tend that the propoxyphene and other drugs are prescribed so often because they can only be obtained by prescription. There js a strong belief among physicians that patients have faith in prescription drugs and will perceive themselves to be better served if they obtain a pre scription during an office visit," Ms. Shell said. "This compulsion ,to please patients at almost any cost is made more dangerous by the fact that many doctors don't know all that much ahont drugs in the first place." Medical school students receive little formal training about prescription drugs, Ms. Shell con tinued, and they are expected to learn what they do know during their internships, residencies and, later in their practice, through medical journals and occasional courses. "In reality, however, doctors get the vast majority of their information about new drugs from pharmaceutical sales representa tives, known in the industry as detail men or deiailers,'" she said. "I don't think that's true," Dr. training physicians and I know I make a point of telling them all I can about prescription drugs. One could admit that it (training on medications) -could probably be better but everything could stand some improvement." Dr. Mack attended medical school in the 1950s and said his training on prescription drugs was reasonably good. Of course, he said, today there are many more dfugs' than there was in the 1950s. ! It is the physician's job to get enough information from their patients and give them adequate I information so they will not abuse "I personally can't rely on my * patients to tell me everything, and I I tell my students that you're the I doctor and you're supposed to get I the information from them," he - said. "I think there has to be an I awareness on both sides. The : patients should show up at* the-, doctors with all the medicine they, are taking in a paper bag. Then the doctor should make a better effort to find out what's what." Principal charged in assault xase From Page A1 ther action would be taken based on the outcome of the police department's investigation. Wednesday the superintendent said he must now await the out come of the trial before making another recommendation. "What we're going to have to do is wait and see how this thing comes out in court,'' Dr. Coble said. "It's generally recognized, regarding Mr. Honeycutt, that he will not be returning to Mineral Springs Elementary School as principal." Before the summons, the superintendent said his next rec ommendation would be to the ? Board of Education, and he said that Mr. Honeycutt would proba bly be transferred somewhere within the school system. Parents of the children who filed the charges were distraught when they learned Mr. Honeycutt had been suspended with pay, insisting that >f the principal had been an Afro-American, he would have been fired on the spot. "Transferring him to another school ain't gonna get it," Ms. Pot ter said. "If he can't handle kids he needs to go into another line of work." Mr. Honeycutt is scheduled to appear in Forsyth County Domes tic Court on Oct. 10. WSSU selected to participate in NYSP ~ Winston-Salem State University has been selected to participate in the year-round program of the National Youth Sports Program. The university served as a host for the program during the summer and now will run the winter program through May. Coach C.E. "Bighouse" Gaines said that WSSU was selected for the year-round program because of the success it has experienced with its summer programs. Coach Gaines said that he expects 250 youngsters to par ticipatc in the program through May. The summer NYSP will begin in June. The NYSP makes available to American young people experiences in sports and enrichment activities. The partners in the program are selected institutions of higher educa tion. the NCAA and ih c Offit.e of. Community Sci vices. The Lombiiiar tion of federal funds and roller resources offers leaders in education and athletics an opportunity and a challenge to perform a needed ser vice. ? , An orientation program will be held Saturday, On 7, at WSS1J Dates are being scheduled for those | participants needing physical exami nations. Students wlu> participated in the summer program do not need to have new physicfls; Coac h (.i anies, saul LhaLius, staff is seeking mute volunteers to assist with the NYSP and is asking any ? churches or organizations willing to volunteer the use of their vans to con tact him a!. WSSU's athletic depart- ? mem. - Communication seminars mark 'Let's Talk Month' The Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Council, along with several other community agen cies, is sponsoring a series of par ent communication seminars dur ing October as part of "Let s Talk Month." A seminar will be held Thurs day, Oct. 5, at the Central YMCA on West End Boulevard. The topic will he "Teens and Drug Preven tion.". The discussion will be held from 7:30 to 9 p.m. Other topics throughout the month will include the "Psycholo gy of Blackness" Friday, Oct. 13; from 10:30 a.m. t of noon at the Winston-Salem Urban League. and "The Totality of Parenting | From a Black Perspective," with | the date and location to he | announced. I For more information on the series, call the Adolescent Preg nanoy~-Pf<i%cmioH> (%Hvnoil ?r .vhe .? Junior League. Legislature reforms individual income tax law RALEIGH -- If you are one of those many people who wail until the ^evening of April 15 to do your income taxes, the General Assembly has made the night a little shorter. No longer will you have to do a completely separate set of calcula tions to compute your state income tax: From now on, your state tax will be figured as 6 or 7 pcrccnt of your federal taxable income-that number found on line 37 of the federal tax return. ? ? The Legislature has changed The way North Carolinians will figure their state tax to make life simpler and calculations easier. The modern ization adjusts the entire income tax system for inflation by substantially increasing personal exemptions and standard deduction limits. The changes are expected to pro vide tax reductions for 98 percent of the state's single persons with depen dents, as well as for 65 percent of the state's married couples, who will lor the first lime be able to tile a joint state return. * In addition, the lax system reform removes 7CK),(KK> ot our state's poorest citizens for the tax rolls. The new system allows a small handful of adjustments to federal tax able income: Some preserve provi sions unique and deemed important to North Carolina; others were needed for technical reasons. Some items exempt under the old system will contFhucT fcTbe exempt under the new system: interest earned on federal securities and on bonds issued by North Carolina and its local units, Social Security and Railroad Retirement benefits, and up to S 1 ,5(K) in National Guard pay. The new system maintains all the tax credits allowed under the old sys tem except two unused energy conser vation credits and the low- and 'mod erate-income credit, which were replaced by higher personal exemp tions and standard deductions. North Carolina s original income tax system went into el feet in 1921 and ha's remained essentially unchanged since 1937. Changing the law conforms North Carolina to 34 of the 41) states levying income taxes whose structure parallels in some fashion that of the federal govern ment. In addition to reducing the amount of time taxpayers will have to invest in preparing their state taxes, modernizing and simplifying the state's income tax svstem should help reduce their error rate, too. When South Carolina changed to a similar system, the error rate on tax returns dropped from 20 to 4 percent. Our state's changes go into effect with the Jan. 1, 1989 tax year but will not affect pending litigation. KKK chapter wants to adopt highway By The Associated Press RALEIGH - Saying they want to help clean up North Carolina, mem bers of a Ku Klux Klan chapter have applied to join the state's Adopt-A Highway roadside trash pickup pro gram. The N.C. Department of Trans portation is considering the request by the Rockingham County Chapter of The Invisible Empire Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. If it is approved, the DOT would give the Klan group a stretch of state road to keep clean and would erect a green-and-white DOT sign with the Klan name. Rocky Chapman, the exalted cyclops of the Invisible Empire Knights' Reidsville chapter, said he had had no response from highway officials in the two weeks since he filed the application. "I feel it's our constitutional right to adopt a highway," Chapman said. "It isn't like I was going out here doing something disruptive. We're trying to do something good for the *tate We're trying to clean up North Caroli na." He told The News and Observer of Raleigh in an interview published this week that he might take the state to court if the Invisible Empire Knights' application was rejected. James C. Shields, executive director of the North Carolina Civil Liberties Union, said he thought the Klan group should be allowed to join the anti-litter program. "My initial reaction is that govern ment should consider very carefuly whether it may legitimately deny par ticipation in this program based upon government approval or disapproval of the political agenda of any group," he said. "My guess is that they proba bly should not." James Sughrue, assistant secretary of transportation for external affairs, said DOT officials were studying the Klan application. "It is not a usual request and therefore it is not being handled in the usual manner," he said. "The request has been received and we're reviewing it, and I don't have much to add to that," Sughrue said he did not know if any application /or the program had ever been rejected. Chapman said a local DOT official had persuaded the group to change their original request for one stretch of Rockingham County highway because, Chapman said. "It was heav ily populated by the black race." The official told him he was wor ried that angry motorists would inten tionally dump trash there to make more work for the Klan, Chapman said, and suggested they apply instead for "a white community stretch of highway." The road has not been determined. Rockingham County is located between Greensboro and the Virginia line. The Adopt- A-Highway program is the largest in the country, officials said. On weekends, volunteers from 4,669 civic groups, businesses and neighborhoods clean up more than 10,000 miles of state roads. The pro gram was started in 1988. 'There are lots of religious groups that have adopted a highway," Mr. Chapman said. "Just because I don't agree with that religion doesn't mean lhat that religion doesn't have a right to adopt a highway." Alderman Vivian II. Burke Thanks You for your support in her recent re-election to the Board of Alderman for the Northeast Ward Paid for by th? Committee to Elect Vivian Burke AUTO INSURANCE . ECONOLINE INSURANCE AGENCY INC. 1 ? DWI Convictions ? ----- Quotes over phone Open Saturdays 9am-1pm 301 S. LIBERTY STREET Financing (In Old Salem Town Hall Building) A vailablB ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Clip and Save This Ad- ? ??? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? 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