University Daily Kansan
Friday, December 3, 1971
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KU Clinic Treats Addicts
By TUULA TOSSAVAINEN
Kansas Staff Writer
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The methadone clinic in Wakkins Hospital has proved to be useful to the Lawrence community during its first year in operation.
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The clinic was established last January by the hospital director. Dr. Smith initiated first meeting, which law enforcement and attorney involvement has agreed that information of the patients would be given to the police or to the
The treatment program is designed to be self-supporting; patients pay $2 per day for their dose of methadone, and the clinic doctors, Schwegler, James Campbell and Margaret Haggan will administer it until the clinic constantly faces the danger of running out of funds.
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ANYONE WHO EXPRESSES a desire to quit using heroin is able to receive treatment at the clinic.
Since most of these patients are non-students, we have one student who was diagnosed with visit the clinic between 8 and 10 a.m., when the regular patients are not rushing in. *Dr. Haggan* does not tell the difference between who is here waiting for his daily dose of methadone and who for it.
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Originally methadone was used only to substitute for heroin, not because it was so effective. The clinics were founded in New York City and were well known and worked with people in the ghetto
areas. Dr. Neuschwander tried to get her addict to change from expensive heroin to cheap and thus to lower the crime rate.
"In college hospitals like Watkins we try to get kids completely off of heroin." Dr. Haggasan said.
The treatment begins with stabilizing the person to doses of 10 mg/kg daily, and varies with individuals; for most persons it may take a week, for others a few months. According to the average time is three months.
METHADONE KILLS the effect of heroin or any other drug in a person who has been on heroin for a long time. It feels perfectly high but produces no high. This protective effect of heroin lasts 24 to 28 hours, whereas heroin may wear off in a few hours.
"After we have told the patient that no drugs have an effect over methadone they usually try it on myself," she said. "This cheating is easy to find from the urine specimen patients produce every time they visit the clinic. But still I'd say most everyone tries to cheat."
Methadone is given in a liquid form and it has to be drunk in freshwater doctor at the clinic. Dr Haggan had taught many clinics to use liquid form. In the past when methadone was given in a pill bottle, patients with a patient hid the pill in his tongue and sold it later on. Occasionally, if a patient is going into an accident, he has two or a few bottles of methadone alone.
WHEN A PATIENT IS stabilized on methadone, the doctor starts to decrease the dose of the medication. The amount on which a person is
stabilized varies also. Some may start decrease from 120 milligrams per week, others from 40 milligrams per week
"For a person who starts from 40 milligrams per week, for example, it takes 8 to 10 weeks to lose 25 percent of heroin. The longest treatment lasted lately from January to September and the shortest was two months." Dr. Haggan said. "Again this is not so easy as it is with high doses who have used to use high amounts. An inulin cannot stand such a fast drop.
Ideally, emotional counseling should be connected to clinic treatment. To be cured, Dr. Haggan said, a person must have been hooked and needed help and that he was a worthwhile person.
"THE CLINIC IS LOOSELY affiliated with the Bert Nash
Their findings included pottery, mosaics, very advanced stucco and brick masonry, and a most unique type of oven.
In 1968, after the Israel border belt shifted some 35 miles, he and his team lost all expeditionary crew were allowed to dig at Tel Anfaa in the Golan heights. The town, situated on a plateau, was also used to approximately 100 to 75 C.
"They were double-ovens with a flue so that they could obtain a
According to Dr. Haggan, one of the biggest problems patients have are their friends who still are on heroin. These friends often so to get the patient back to heroin even by using physical force.
Mental Health Center, but it is not enough," Dr. Haggan said. "If only we had more funds."
"Our patients trust us, simply because they do not have any other skills. "They are bright people, very worthwhile to work with. It is a terrible waste of people to see them on beron or trying to get more."
Dr. Haggan said heroin was becoming more rare in Lawrence. The big pushers are either in jail or have left town, and the few who remain in Vietnam is checked more carefully than before, she said.
While on one of their final
research investigations,
Weinberg recounted an enormous collection
of plates and bowls dating to
the Bronze Age.
Weinberg said that this type of oven was the first he had ever heard of coming from the Hellenistic period.
Weinberg explained to the audience of about 60 persons that he and his wife, Gladys Davidson, also a well-known archaeologist, had always had a strange experience with the Tel Anafa but had been refused permission because of the Mid-eastern conflicts.
TOPEKA (AP) - Former Lt. Gov. John Crutcher, Gw. Robert Docking and Kansas State University will be among the speakers at the annual convention of the Kansas Wheat Commission and the Kansas Farmers'owers at Hutchinson Dec. 10 and 11.
The pottery was, for the most part, still whole. Weinberg considered this a rarity and explained that "the reason for the unusual shape of pottery has been because of the soft mud-brick foundation.
Lying in the hospital in a coma for months now, a 9-year-old child who is a victim of encephalitis has depleted her parent's financial resources. She studies the University of Kansas at Physical Education Major's Club stepped in to help.
Crucuter, now director of the Division of State and Local Government, Office of Economic Development at a dinner Dec. 11.
The child, Julie Rector, is the daughter of Bob Rector, a past coach at Lawrence High School and now co-chairman of the Rector is now on the coaching staff of Independence Junior College Active in KAIPER, the organization for Health Physical Education. Education Recreation. Rector is known throughout Kansas as a leader in the field of physical education.
buttons imprinted with the slogan "Physical Fitness" - The Ultimate Trip" When these men and women of K-State or a KAHPER convention in Highland Park, the clear profit of $30 was made by the Fund in independence.
Docking will address the commission's annual Governor's luncheon on Dec. 10.
Club Collects Money For Child in Coma
Although Julie is still in a
coma, she is improving, accordi-
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of the Club M. Men's P.E. Major's
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very high temperature," said Weinberg.
Anyone interested in contributing to the Jule Rector Fund should contact Scott in Robinson Gymnasium.
TOPEKA, KA. (AP) —The Kansas Bankers Association will session register in the 1972 session against banks to open more offices.
With the lecture Weinberg showed slides of his excavation at Tel Anafa in Upper Gallerie.
Last month the KU Men's P.E. Major's Club had made 500
"An archaeologist is someone who spends his whole life looking for something unique but can't find a parallel," said Saul Miles, professor of archaeology at University of Maryland-Columbia.
Archaeologist Tells About Israeli Ruins
Sigma Delta Chi journalism society, will hold a Wassail Party at
Delta Hoyle for deputies should the bulletin be in Flint Hall.
Weinberg, who just returned from an archaeological excavation in north Israel, lectured. Thursday evening he forayed Forum Room of a Museum.
The Bridge Club will meet at 1:30 p.m. Sunday in the Pine Room of the Kansas Union to introduce players to duplicate bridge. The
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Bridge Club to Meet
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The Rodeo and Riding Club has scheduled a hayride for 7 p.m. Saturday. The hayride will leave from Spencer Stables (16 miles west on Highway 40) and cost $1 per person. Anyone in need should contact JH Brien at 864-1636 or Mike Chew at 842-2347.
The Student Senate will meet at 7 p.m. Sunday in the Big Broom Room. The Student Senate will convene on Monday morning, a meeting. Major members of the assemble are proposed activity fee increase, a by-law amendment on the budget process, an annual Student Senate workshop. Senate subsidy for bus service is $100,000 per semester.
The Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority is holding a fund-raising project this week-end at Westminster Center for Sickle Cell Anemia. They are sponsoring a Golden Oldie Ball at 10:30 p.m. Saturday, and are inviting students in dresses in the fashion of the 1960's. Admission is $1.00 or $1.25 with admission. A bed what contest will be held Sunday at t.p.m. Admission is $1.00 per contest and $2.50 per spectator.
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