UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Thursday, March 30,1995
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Drug use did not kill basketball player
The Associated Press
BOSTON — Reggie Lewis did not die as a result of cocaine use, according to an official review of the Celtic star's autopsy. But authorities stopped short of saying Lewis didn't use drugs.
"The purpose of the review was to establish the cause of death, not to establish whether Reggie Lewis ever used cocaine," State Public Safety Secretary Kathleen M. O'Toole told a news conference late Tuesday.
Lewis died July 27, 1993, after he collapsed while shooting baskets. Recent reports have questioned whether drug use weakened his
heart, contrary to the public finding of the medical examiner.
Doctors who reviewed the case concluded that the Celtics' captain did not die as a result of cocaine use, according to a summary of their findings disclosed by the state's chief medical examiner, Dr. Richard Evans.
He said Lewis died when several different problems caused his heart to beat irregularly, the same finding that was on his death certificate. Evans gave three other medical conditions leading to the defect in addition to the adenovirus listed prominently on the death certificate, including cardiac hypertrophy, or the enlargement of the heart.
Authorities declined to say if there was evidence that Lewis ever used cocaine, and his widow has declined to let them release the autopsy report.
Officials said there were no plans to change the death certificate.
Such documents are not public record under Massachusetts law.
One college teammate has said that Lewis used drugs, a statement he later recanted. Other friends insist he didn't.
One unsamed medical source has said that some of Lewis' doctors believed he used cocaine, and Northeastern University is investigating whether there was drug use on its basketball team while Lewis
played.
The investigation was launched March 9, after The Wall Street Journal reported that the Celtics' financial and public relations concerns prevented doctors from fully investigating whether cocaine use contributed to Lewis' death.
The Journal said that Dr. Stanton Kessler, who headed the initial autopsy team, was threatened with legal action by the Lewis family if he mentioned drug use in his findings.
State Police Lt. Paul Fitzgerald said that Kessler had been asked in the investigation if there was any pressure brought to bear on him, and he emphasized that there was not any pressure.
NBA player not surprised by shooting
The Associated Press
DETROIT — Grant Hill gave his name and endorsement to gym shoes marketed by Fila. Now, the Detroit Pistons rookie is facing the reality that a teen-age was shot for a pair of them.
"It was unfortunate, but I kind of thought something like this would happen." Hill told Detroit News columnist Terry Foster in yesterday's editions. "It was a matter of time, with the demand and it being a hot shoe.
"In a way, you feel responsible for it. The good thing is, the kid is alive, and they say he will do well. Hopefully, things will change. It is a problem with society."
Elijah Stokes, 15, was walking home Monday from Denby High School when two men beat him, shot him in the head and stole his $86 pair of "The Hill" shoes.
Stokes was in serious but stable condition early yesterday at St. John Hospital.
Hill said Stokes' shooting made him think about the influence he might have over youngsters facing violence in their schools and neighborhoods.
"I think me talking to people and sending a message might have more weight than a teacher or parent," Hill said. "When I was young, the big thing was Starter jackets and Air Jordans. ... There is nothing in the world worth killing over."
Student gambling addiction pervades college campuses
NCAA officials fear illegal bets have bad influence on sports
By Steve Wilstein The Associated Press
At colleges all over the country, students are betting on sports, cards, lotteries and casino games.
Academic studies have shown that 6 to 8 percent of college students, a higher percentage than any other age group, are probable pathological gamblers so addicted to betting that they are out of control.
That level of gambling is especially upsetting to NCAA officials, who worry about the influence of student gamblers on athletes and the possibility of point-shaving.
"When a lot of students are betting on a campus, and some of them are betting heavily, that could spell trouble for the student athletes," said Bob Frederick, athletic director at the University of Kansas and head of the NCAA basketball tournament selection committee. "The kids who are betting may be friends, they may be down the hall in the dorms or they could be in the same fraternities. Some of them might try to get the student athletes involved with their gambling, or they might try to get information out of them. It's a bad situation, and it can compromise the integrity of the games."
The first U.S. review of teen-age gambling, which studied youths in California, Virginia
and Connecticut, was done a decade ago by Durwood Jacobs, clinical psychology professor at Loma Linda University Medical School in California and vice president of the National Council on Problem Gambling.
"Our initial findings were that 4 to 6 percent of high-school-age youngsters, average age 16 1/2, were probable pathological gamblers at the time we surveyed them," Jacobs said. "At the time, the prevalence rate for adult problem gamblers was about 1 1/2 percent. Kids were showing prevalence of probable pathological gambling more than three times that of adults."
Follow-up studies in Minnesota and Texas produced similar findings, but a more recent study in Ontario, Canada, after casino gambling was legalized last year, showed an increase in teen-age gambling relative to adults.
Gambling is increasing among teenagers and college students, Jacobs said, because the spread of casinos and lotteries is creating an atmosphere of acceptance and easy access.
"It is alarming, and I think it is going to increase," he said. "My prediction is that, for kids, the fastest-growing addiction in the 1909s will be gambling. Why? Because all our other experimental outlets are frowned upon. Drugs, alcohol, smoking, even sex — they have to be very careful. What's left for fun and games and excitement? Gambling. And it's readily available more and more. The measuring stick for how much gambling is going to be done is ready accessibility."
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