Community alcohol programs are helping youthful offenders
RALEIGH? Alcohol tbwe is
among North' frraliniT^teen
agers More than 65,000 high
school students In the state are
believed to be heavy drinkers.
Many North Carolina teens also
live in families in which the
parents have serious drinking
problems or are alcoholics.
All too often, these kids wind
up in trouble at home, in
school, and with the law. Four
teen-year-old Johnny is a good
example.
Johnny has been before the
courts three times following
convictions for shoplinng, drug
use, and vandalism As a juve
nile offender he would normally
be sent to a stale training
school for delinquent youth.
However, many judges in North
Carolina now have another
choice far kids like Johnny ?
community alternative pro
grams for youthful offenders.
The perograms are designed
to help teenagers like Johnny
learn postitive ways to over
come their drinking problems,
stresses in the family, and toru
bles in school and with the
courts.
A juvenile court judge md
teoced Johnny to the Juvenile
Iirtsnwrftnw Program (J1P) In
Wilmington. Allen Sutton, a
substance abuse counselor and
organizer of J IP, pointed out
that all of the district court
Judges in the are now use JIP
as a routine part of their sen
tencing.
"Most of these kids need peo
ple to talk to, to hear them out,
not time in Jail," he em
phasized. "The judges seem to
be relizing that."
He noted that JIP's profes
sional counselors work with
Sprains-fractures-pulled muscles
Sometimes it's difficult to tell
whether you have sprained a
joint, broken a bone or pulled a
muscle when you injure a part
of your body, since they all can
have identical symptoms. Here
are some tips about how to rec
ognize and treat these common
problems.
Apply an ice pack to reduce
swelling and contact your fam
ily physician.
If the neck or spine has been
injured, NEVER try to move th
person ? this could lead to pa
ralysis. In such cases call for
an ambulance or rescue squad
to obtain trained, experienced
people to assist the injured
party.
Pulled Muscles (Strains): can
be prevented by warming up
before any type of physical
exertion. A pulled muscle is
caused by stretching or strain
ing a muscle beyond its limit,
which may result in torn fibers
within the muscle.
This can be quite painful. Im
mediate treatment should be to
apply cold compress to the in
jured area. Twenty-four hours
late an electric pad or hot wa
ter bottle may ease the pain.
Do not to any vigorous exercise
the following day.
Rest is essential, as pulled
muscles may take a long time
to heal, often a month or more.
The most commonly pulled
muscles are in the back. Back
aches may be caused by medi
cal conditions other than strains
but less often. The best advice
about a painful back can be ob
tained from your family doctor.
Most of the discomfort from
these types of injuries can be
controlled with use of aspirin in
the correct dose for ones age
and weight. Aspirin is better
than Tylenol, Panadol, etc. be
cause aspirin reduces inflam
mation in the injured site as
well as discomfort. More severe
pain should be reported to your
doctor. (Written by: Robert S.
Cline, Sanford, N.C. family phy
sician, as a public service of
the N.C. Academy of Family
Physicians.)
Sprain: is an injury to the li
gaments around a joint. Liga
ments are tough, fibrous bands
of tissuee by which all joints
are connected. A sprain is
caused by a violent, sudden
movement of the joint.
Ankle and wrist sprains are
the moat commonly seen. The
symptoms that follow such an
inury are pain, swelling and in
ability to move the joint. Treat
ment should be begun by plac
ing an ice pack right away to
reduce swelling and try not to
use the injured joint. Contact
your family physician for fur
ther recommendations.
Fracture: is a broken bone ?
it can be simple or compound
(meaning that the bone has
been broken and caused a cut
in the skin). The symptoms in
clude a pain that gets worse
when you press the injury
gently and almost immediate
swelling in the area of the
break.
First aid treatment is to sup
port the fracture with a sling or
padded splint and raise the in
jured area to prevent swelling.
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Johnny, and other participant*,
to teach thsm how to commu
nicate better, to taiik out thrir
problema, and learn alterna
tives to street crime. During
the program, each family mem
ber Is encouraged to stop drink
ing, and make an honest effort
to communicate more with each
other.
"Communication and family
interaction is a vital part of
JIP," Sutton explained. "We're
not here to provide all the an
swers, but to give the young
people and their families better
ways to find their own solu
tions."
He added that many of the
youthful offenders assigned to
JIP, like Johnny, are teenagers,
from tow to medium income
families, and are usually ne
glected rather than abused.
They are often left without su
pervision and without someone
to talk to about their intersts
and concerns. Frequently, their
parents have drinking problems
or are alcoholics.
JIP is an intensive six-week
program operated by the Cape
Fear Substance Abuse Center in
Wilmington. It is funded by the
N.C. Department of Human Re
sources' Division of Mental
Health, Mental Retardation,
and Substance Abuse Services,
as well as by private agencies.
The division operates 150 com
munity programs that help over
30,000 problem drinkers and
their families every yew.
Suttoo Mid that one sign that
J IP it working is that many of
the young people who are
inolved look for ways they can
help after they complete the
program. Johnny has stayed ac
tively involved in JIP in order
to help other young people with
similar problems. His school
work has also improved, and
the realtiooship with his par
ents is getting better. Johnny
has made a good start in turn
ing his life around.
Another successful commu
nity effort to help youthful of
fenders is the Children at Alco
holic Parents (COAP) program
?t the Randolph Clinic in Char
lotte It is geared toward young
people who are victims at alco
holic parents and who often are
developing drinking problems at
their own.
Michael Brown, a member at
the counseling team that
opeates the COAP program,
said that most of the yo*mg peo
ple sentenced to COAP are re
peat offenders.
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