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JANET LYNN Skater Editorial January, 1973 Vol. 26, No. 1 Ill8T1N Journal of Better Living

Executive Director Ernest H. J. Steed Crossed Signals Editor Francis A. Soper Associate Editor Twyla Schlotthauer We may smile at old Rip Van Winkle who according to Editorial Secretary June Franklin legend wandered up into the Catskill Mountains of New York, Office Editor T. R. Torkelson Art Director Howard Larkin drank some schnapps, and took twenty years to sleep it off. Layout Artist Ichiro Nakashima Actually most of us do better than Rip did in the time we Circulation Manager A. R. Mazat sleep. It is said that the average person who lives to be seventy Sales and Promotion L. R. Hixson, Milo Sawvel has spent 23 years in sleeping, the most time spent for any phase of life. Only 19 years are devoted to work. In This Issue The difference between Rip and us is that we do our years of sleeping in bits and pieces, and—hopefully—not in order to 2 Crossed Signals Editorial sleep off the effects of so-called "nightcaps." 3 Putting Out the Fires The usual problem today seems to be not sleeping enough, 5 Teamwork Scores Victory rather than sleeping too much. This may result from a topsy- 6 More Than Preaching picture feature turvy schedule which frequently calls for heavy pressure and 8 Help Yourself to Recovery Mary Austin speed during the day with amusement and attempted recrea- 9 "I Know What I'm Missing" as told to Alice R. Kibler tion far into the night. This leads to the use of artificial means 10 TEENS—LIFE CAN BE BEAUTIFUL to induce sleep with the possible development of a vicious It all depends on how you look at it cycle of increasing usage. Cartoons by Tony Saltzman Dr. Richard Wyatt, of the National Institute of Mental Health, 12 Janet Lynn—Poetry in Motion Philip Yancey has done special research on sleep. "Taking a single sleeping 15 The New Place Mary Vandermey pill, and that very occasionally, is not likely to cause much 17 Wilted Flower Child (Poem) Elizabeth Goss difficulty," he says, "assuming that your doctor has prescribed 18 Brains vs. Brawn Shirley M. Dever it. The difficulty comes when you take a pill every night for a 19 Color special LISTEN's Newspaper in Miniature week or perhaps longer—then the effect of the sleeping pill wears off, so that you're not getting the sleep promised by the In the Next Issue pill. In fact, you may be sleeping even more poorly than before you started taking the pills." • "Caught Twice" is the unusual, true story And he goes on to show that such pills suppress normal of a young narcotics agent and a guy he helped "dreaming sleep," leading to an excessive rebound if the pills bust. are discontinued. In short, sleeping pills are not usually con- • "Olympic Odyssey" takes you along the ducive to natural sleep. Neither are tranquilizers, patent medi- Munich trail, pausing long enough to talk to cines, or a constant use of alcohol. They all tend to produce a erstwhile champion of the pool, Debbie Meyer. "fractured sleep." • Self-prescribed sleeping medicines can be The real problem is that the drug age in which we live is a form of "Russian Roulette." confusing. At times we take stimulants to keep awake, when we should be asleep; then we depress to go to sleep, when we Photo and Illustration Credits Cover, Courtesy, David M. Smith; page 3, Robert A. Isaacs; page ought to be awake. We drink caffeine to get going, smoke 5, Michael's Studio; page 8, A. Devaney, Inc.; page 9, Rohn Engh; nicotine to keep on the ball, then drink alcohol to relax. We nages 12, 13, 14, 20, 22, United Press International; page 15. 'rank/Nakashima; page 18, Lawrence D. Thornton from Frederic take bennies to combat fatigue, eat tranquilizers to level off, Lewis; pages 19, 21, Leo Rosenhouse; page 20, Bob Taylor; page gobble sleeping pills to get our rest, and in between take med- 21, C. A. Murphy; page 24, D. Tank. icines to combat disease and restore health. Editorial Office Little wonder that all this profusion of drugs leads to im- 6840 Eastern Ave., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20012 balance to the point that our minds and bodies don't know Publication Office whether to start or stop, whether to speed up or slow down. Pacific Press Publishing Association, 1350 Villa Street, We get our signals crossed. Mountain View, California 94040 It's time to get back to a more natural way of life, both dur- ing the day and at night. If there's less artificial during the day, Subscription Yearly subscription, United States, its possessions, and Canada, there would be less need of the artificial at night. $5.50; single copy, 50 cents. To other countries, $5.75; single Obviously, the two are related. copy, 50 cents. Change of Address Send change of address to LISTEN, 1350 Villa Street, Mountain View, California 94040. Zip code must be included. Allow thirty days for change to become effective. Give both the old and the new address.

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Copyright, 1972, by Narcotics Education, Inc. LISTEN looks in on a major local-c effort in Pennsylvania which is--

. • NORTH of Philadelphia, lie two counties which wi never be the same again aftn last year and this year. They will have cleaner At healthier people, fewer act dents, fatter pocketbooks, arid. -i;- a lot less fire! For Montgomery and Bucicsi:' Counties have two very active citizens who are sparking school, community, and indus- trial projects for the annual Na- tional Education Week on Smoking (NEWS) in order to show the benefits of nonsmoking and reduce the num- ber of fires burning in peoples' mouths. Joseph C. Hobart and George Di Domi- zio, both workers in industrial plants, spend much of their off-time during the year persuad- ing smokers to quit and young peo- ple never to start. When January of each year approaches, and the time comes for the annual NEWS time, they chines, manikins smoking and developing black lungs, and for- really swing into ac- tunate ex-smokers being rewarded with frozen turkey. tion, spending virtu- In preparing for all this activity, Joe Hobart reports a list ally day and night on of projects, that for variety and extent is nothing short of this effort. Both Joe and astonishing. It is divided into activities for schools, industries, George were former associations and clubs, the community, and special antismoke smokers themselves. projects. For 1973, says Joe, the For the students are listed contests for the best poems, jin- goal is to reach more than gles, posters, and essays; demonstrations and programs in their 10,000 smokers and to per- schools; projects for science, driver training, art, and English suade each of them to at least cut down on his classes; as well as unique ideas such as assigning students to smoking, with 1,000 and more quitting entirely. collect 20,000 cigarette butts to combat litter. During this week—January 7-13 for 1973—the projects are In the industrial category, besides the featuring of displays, being concentrated in the Lansdale and Souderton areas, al- films, and literature, there are suggestions for businesses to though the impact of what is being done spreads over the entire grant special recognition to nonsmoking employees, for mer- Philadelphia area. In these towns the people are seeing, among chants to remove cigarettes from their list of sale items, for many other things, business windows painted with antismoking hospitals to ban smoking in patient areas, and for companies pictures and slogans, coffins parading down the streets, movies to encourage workers to "break a butt" (deliberately destroy during lunch hours, shrouds over cigarette dispensing ma- cigarettes).

LISTEN, January, 1973 / 3 confe T Ir U3 .1 a loaysmoking and the Five Day Plan plaque donated by the Seventh certificate from Radio Shack. Day Adventist Church of Lans- Smoking. The top winner in the jingle window painting Essays: second, led with sharp pencils, was dale, and a Kodak Instamatic ven sharper wit, a group of contest was Judy White, 13, of •• a from the Cardinal Gerona, Greater Phil school children poked fun Pennbrook Junior High School.its of Junior Academy: smoking habits of adults She'll receive the Knian s, St. eking part in a series of Columbus plaque 'sts conducted as part of electric can opener from Sch Hobart Addresse week's observance of midt's Tire Co. The followi • • . field oycee >nal No-smoking Week. Jaycees held thiy me e efforts of the voun /'1'1o v ed Wei. • . oaf development to Be Re unity service. AShtraYS Ban Smokin9 R eca at 822-05 tf n somebody edormmaatyionc." e jxatycreneesetiwnign cress:' quipPed Counc Ashtrays from the meeting chambers of the Lansdale borough ay, May 3 a council go to jail. Mayor Hugh Cullen turns the culprits over to his e sobersided. ow • please take police chief for safekeeping. • GeOrge thDOMi7.W. Lansdale smoke cal Firm Olv (C113 t(wItcasibl:easrell ivoPentil:Sairithniciertr aasisrdaebearnY'frtosnrci g:dh ,,,ouuded ritttlar:rsiinnsi like was thatascOtt o Smoking V a: group of employees at I C117SC14/e iiio f A ej ooks instrument Company in a • tfield marked National No- oking Week by brealdng a JO/n NO•Sin 0 arette in two as a gesture of • e cigar - kin The Lansdale Rotary e waswaste inounced tte habi ted to observe Winners Usti this weeki../ that itCh'iatisb 1,,tih Hobart it ilioehngbet4 hat ant. e throughout its meetingno-sinokng on ban smoki rub r.side •optinue In No-Smokini Iits woeIcky nif into nex progra COntribUt e OkS Staff In one of the 6 directi sched :0111"g Week Contes1 aks Butts .,,,.ed bychip ,, school Penn souder,„,, ep, Three Indian Valley Al pupils were prize winners i 14*'')/:(..,_ , said. Smo qid Drive oerving as ji., anti-smoke contests condu man during National No-Smo 11,,,b,,,ert. xec,c tone *yes of Brooks e "drth r> Week that came to a close Gr week• iment, Division at son Electric Co., H to kick off the rded prizes in the po nal No Smoking t that drew more than laien by participa No Smoking Week Planne

Associations and clubs are called upon to reduce or ban because several of them had articles for sale like no-smoke smoking in public meetings, to stage an antismoking play or ashtrays. The libraries were involved because we made them demonstration, and to provide support for the school activities. the central areas in each town for providing literature. Students Community projects include the "cold turkey" drawing by were involved, both public and parochial. Others included ex-smokers, bonfire burning of cigarettes, public opinion sur- newspapers, policemen, clergymen, industry, merchants, coun- veys, smoker's dial, sermons in churches, the listing and pub- cil members and mayors; and various clubs—TB and Respira- licizing of 1973 quitters, and help-smoker kits for doctors' tory Disease Association, Five-Day Plan, Smoke Watchers, offices. Kiwanis Club, Rotary, Ministerial Associations, YMCA, Some of the other projects are Five-Day Plans to Stop Knights of Columbus. As far as I can see we had everybody Smoking, Smoke Watcher lectures, radio programs, newspaper in the area for one solid month doing a lot of thinking about publicity, workshops, speakers bureaus—and the list goes on smoking. And in this area there are about 100,000 people." and on. It's obvious that Montgomery and Bucks Counties will never Of the 1972 NEWS program, Joe Hobart comments: be the same as far as smoking is concerned. If a program like "Every night we had smoking programs for adults. During this catches fire over the country, there will be fewer fires burn- the day we had contests and smoking films for the children. ing in smokers' mouths, and a lot less ill health and death from The merchants were involved, grocery stores were involved that cause. •

4 / LISTEN, January, 1973 WARNI AMERICAN CANCER SOCIEI

IGARET chambers—this as part of a symbolic gesture against smoking. —The Lansdale Library distributed thousands of pieces of antismoke literature, including novel bookmarks from the IL American Cancer Society. —Eight newspapers, one of them the Philadelphia Bulletin, published nearly 30 stories about the local activities. 0 —More than 1,000 youngsters took part in a series of con- S A tests conducted through two public school systems and a num- ber of private schools. NC rt —Nearly 10,000 schoolchildren were exposed to antismoke messages brought by one worker who came from Connecticut. —Merchants in Lansdale cooperated by allowing school- children to paint antismoke messages on display windows. —A number of industrial firms placed antismoke messages on bulletin boards and distributed literature to employees. —A Philadelphia radio station carried an antismoke mes- sage on seven time spots in one day. —A successful Five-Day Plan was conducted at the North Joseph C. Hobart and George Di Domizio are teammates Penn High School. All those attending quit smoking. who call winning plays in the fight against smoking in their —Two lectures on smoking were presented at a senior citi- Pennsylvania communities. zens' center in Souderton and a church in Lansdale. "It was a lot of fun, and one of the most satisfying things I've ever done. We had great cooperation from everyone, espe- What happened last year-- cially the school officials. We gave them no more than a few days' notice to arrange for the antismoke contests, and yet they made them happen," George says. The mere mention of contests, and Joe begins to sing the Teamwork Scores praises of the Lansdale merchants. "Many of them volunteered gifts to be used as prizes in the contests," Joe exclaims. "I started out to ask permission of the merchants to use their Victory display windows for the window painting contest, and ended up receiving gifts for the contests. I've never seen anything TWO ex-smokers, who at one time starred in the same high quite like that before," he says. school backfield, teamed up early last year in a razzle-dazzle What was the best play of the week? "I feel the official offensive against smoking in two counties in eastern Pennsyl- action taken by Lansdale Borough Council will prove the most vania. far-reaching event of the week," George states. With little time to huddle before the start of National Edu- He adds, "In a matter of a few days, two well-known local cation Week on Smoking, January 9 through 15, Joseph Hobart officials quit smoking because of the council's action. And that's and George Di Domizio launched a number of creative at- just a start. We'll never know for sure, but I think that hun- tacks against smoking. dreds of people decided to quit smoking, partly because the When the smoke cleared at the end of the week, we counted borough council took the historic step." these winning plays: Joe agrees. "The action at Lansdale, combined with the de- —Lansdale Borough Council (Montgomery County) had cision of the Bucks County Commissioners, will keep showing passed a resolution that permanently banned smoking in its up in the news and be a constant reminder to smokers that council chambers. elected officials have now joined the health agencies in the —The Bucks County Commissioners opened their first meet- antismoke camp." ing of the new year by announcing that smoking would not be One idea in the file for 1973 involves a series of drawings permitted during business meetings of the County Board of centered at supermarkets. The prize? A frozen turkey, symbolic Commissioners. of the most widely used method of kicking the habit—"cold —Lansdale's tax collector and its borough manager kicked turkey." • the habit. —The president of the Lansdale Merchant's Association LISTEN's editor presents a formal letter to Mayor Hugh quit smoking a few days after he was asked to serve as a judge Cullen of Lansdale commending him for his public leader- for antismoke contests conducted among schoolchildren. ship toward better health through nonsmoking. —A nationally known virologist quit smoking with the help of the Five-Day Plan. —Virtually all clergymen in the North Penn and Indian Valley areas of Bucks and Montgomery Counties presented an antismoke message on January 9, following the formal sugges- tion of the local ministeriums. —The mayors of Souderton and Lansdale and the chiefs of police "locked up" the ashtrays that had been in council

LISTEN, January, 1973 / 5 Two Seventh-day Adventist teen-agers rap with ghetto youth about the growing drug peril, leaving with them some information about drugs.

ii010.01101101011, more than preaching Rabbi Philip S. Krohn discusses in a class seminar the legal distinction between cer- Standing before Holy Ark, the Rabbi cites tain drugs. Biblical references about not harming oneself. CONFRONTED with the ever-increasing problem of At Odyssey House in the Bronx a pastor drugs, members of the clergy Odyssey House residents get an assist in raps with neighborhood teens on the cen- from virtually all the major cooking from the clergy, who are determined ter's doorstep. Drugs have hit the epi- faiths have galvanized their to help them gain greater self-confidence. demic stage in this area. attack on drug addiction. The issue is being fought on both Is a preventive and a rehabilita- tive basis. Education takes many forms. There are rap sessions on the street corners of neigh- borhoods—both poor and wealthy. And not all of the time do members of the clergy wear religious garb. Getting directly at the most vulnera-

6 / LISTEN, January, 1973 In the Adventists' reading center, a staff counselor offers some A Methodist minister uses gestures in a spiritual song in which interesting material about marijuana. teens march together in the battle against drugs.

Photos by Schiff, Three Lions

ble clusters of youth, and im- pressing them with the inter- locking chain of the drug A Long Island hospital's drug education cen- abuse movement, often makes ter provides clergy with reference material, A class at St. Aloysius hears a priest dis- supplemented by advice from a doctor who a cogent point. cuss the latest medical data about mari- has seen drug victims die. More formal settings, too, juana. are being offered, such as classes and symposia held A young man learns the elementary skill of within church and synagogue A community worker from the parish putting up wallpaper; the priest, an ex-drug facilities. Coordinated field spreads the word about where to get low- addict, commends the job well done. visits to hospitals provide a down on latest drug abuse cases and sad deeper medical perspective. results. Molloy College's conference in Rockville Center recently brought spokesmen from Catholic, Jewish, and Protes- tant faiths together to seek out a joint understanding. The panel recommended that clergy provide "a sympathetic ear" in helping youth to solve the inner turmoils that leave them prey to addiction. •

LISTEN, January, 1973 / 7 THE group was seated around both trained in these fields. Such situations sides of the long table. Ranging in age are never discussed at meetings. from early twenties to early sixties, Founded in 1937 by the late Dr. these nine women and six men looked Abraham Low, the self-help program, like an average gathering of average Recovery, Inc., is now operated exclu- people, and being average was the aim sively by nonprofessionals. The pro- of each one present. This was a weekly gram is available to anyone interested. meeting of a Recovery, Inc., group. Its purpose is to prevent relapses in Averageness is one of the pillars of the former mental patients and chronicity program. in nervous persons. The technique can As one of the women spoke, the be used by anyone to handle daily frus- others listened with varying degrees of trations, anxieties, and minor problems. interest and intentness. "This hap- Members learn to express themselves pened yesterday at the supermarket. I in what is termed "Recovery language," was third in line at the check-out when which consists of terms to avoid tem- the woman just in front of me left her peramental lingo such as "My head is basket standing and walked toward the splitting," "This drives me crazy," and back of the store. She had not returned "I can't stand it another minute." If a when the checker finished with the triviality is faced realistically, it can be customer ahead of me, so I started to handled accordingly. If it is romanti- push the unattended basket aside so cized, it can furnish the ingredients for I could take the next place. Just then a minor tragedy in the life of a nervous the woman came back. She shoved my person. basket aside and pushed hers ahead of Trivialities are the warp and woof me. She seemed quite indignant. And of daily life and come our way con- that was when I started working my- stantly, all day and every day. Recovery self up. offers the tools for facing, recognizing, "I became angry. I could feel my and handling them for what they are face flushing and my temples pound- when seen realistically: trivialities. ing. I felt very weak and thought I Members do not seek nor give advice. couldn't stand up another moment. As of January 1, 1971 (according to And then I started spotting. (Spotting the 34th yearly bulletin published by is a Recovery term for a type of analyz- Recovery, Inc.), there were 12,000 ing. The use of what is called Recovery members in the United States, Canada, language is an important part of the elp and Puerto Rico-825 groups offering Recovery program.) the Recovery way of life. It does not "First I spotted that I had made a offer a magic formula or a spontaneous judgment against the woman and re- YoHurself cure. Instead it teaches a technique called that there is no right and wrong which can be employed by anyone who where trivialities are concerned. And t values his mental health more than the certainly this was a triviality! So I ex- luxury of uncontrolled temper and cused rather than accused. I spotted, Recovery hollow symbolic victories. too, my undesirable exceptionality, for Mary Austin Average persons have average re- in my anger I had thought: How dare actions, including those of temper. The she do this to me! With this I had to initial reaction is spontaneous and be- smile, and by now I had reached the cluded, now sat silently as the other yond an individual's control—and av- checker who smiled back. members made their comments. One erage. But where we take it from there "Now, before Recovery, this trivial- spotted that the woman had handled is entirely up to us. We can see the ity would have become a major crisis the situation in a cultured manner precipitating event for what it is—a to me. Undoubtedly I would have gone which showed much improvement over triviality—and through practice handle for the symbolic victory and made my what she would have done before Re- it accordingly, or perhaps even see it 'rights' known to all within hearing covery training. Another reminded the as humorous. Or we can consider a distance, particularly to the woman group that, according to Recovery, one most minor incident a slap in the face who had so rudely ignored them. I cannot avoid the initial angry reac- of our precious exceptionality and by probably would have left the store with tion which is average. "standing up for our rights" drag it on a resolution never to shop there again. This happening was indeed a trivial- for hours, days, weeks. We certainly I would have spent the rest of the day ity, and only trivialities are presented suffer, both emotionally and physically, nursing my anger, along with a head- as examples at a Recovery meeting. in the practice of this self-indulgence; ache and the inevitable accompanying And do not trivialities compose the but also almost everyone with whom nausea. Dinner would have been ac- major part of an average person's life? we come in contact during this need- companied with my long recitation of There are no experts in a Recovery less emotionalizing and romanticizing how poorly I had been treated. And if group—only average people trying to is victimized to some extent. Just as a that didn't get me the sympathy I become even more average in their ac- smile and good humor can ease the wanted I would have gone to bed with ceptance of the minor buffetings that tension of those around us, so an angry one of my 'nervous spells.' I might are the common lot of all. Real prob- attitude toward life in general can in- have spent the next day in bed also and lems, legal or medical or ethical, are crease it. Certainly there is enough perhaps the day after that." not trivialities; if help is needed along tension in our troubled world today The speaker, her "example" con- these lines, it is sought from experts without adding to it—over nothing. •

8 / LISTEN, January, 1973 I'm Missing" Alice R. Kibler

"YOU have to be out realized then the price a coffee house on the outskirts of town. of your mind, Lynn, to I was to pay for this All the gang hung out there. As everyone pass up a joint!" interlude. formed their own cliques, the pungent I had to be out of my Soon after this regi- smell of marijuana began to fill the room. mind! For the first time men started, my grades joints were passed around freely. Tom re- in nearly two years, I began to drop. Not only fused one, but as I lit mine his hand shot was thinking clearly. was I dating more since out, knocking the match to my lap. In an When I was a soph- everyone knew I was a instant my skirt was aflame. The fire was omore, I became ac- pothead, but it became small but my formal was ruined. How quainted with "Mary- harder for me to con- could I ever explain to my folks? Only jane." It was at a slum- centrate. I was depressed then did I realize how inseparable "Mary- ber party that plump for no reason at all. jane" and I had become. happy-go-lucky Sharon first passed around Several things happened that should When Tom and I reached my home, my the grass. The cigarettes were long and have been a warning. After smoking pot parents discussed the situation with us. cylindrical, tapering slightly at the ends, I became ravenously hungry. One night I We agreed that there was no other re- and were hand-rolled in brown-shaded nearly fought my date for the pizza he course for me but psychiatric help. papers. brought back to the car from a drive-in The next morning Mom called the De- The other girls cupped their hands concession stand. Another time we were partment of Mental Health. In the fol- around the thin cigarettes, drawing the smoking marijuana and I became strung lowing visits the psychiatrist helped me spicy, sweet-smelling stuff deep into their out just watching a friend extinguish an understand what I had become and why. lungs. As each roach neared the end, the ordinary cigarette. I couldn't take my eyes He explained that a marijuana smoker is girls extinguished it and swallowed the off the lingering spark until his words a potential drug addict long before being rest. I discovered later, dedicated potheads broke the spell. Even lyrics from a song exposed to the drug. Smoking pot offers never waste any of their reefers. When kept repeating, repeating, and repeating— opportunity to seek release from psy- the butt of a roach is swallowed, the high like a scratched record. chological pressures. is considerably intensified. I believed what others told me: "You He said results of recent studies show Although this was my first attempt with can't become addicted to marijuana." one out of every four marijuana smokers "Maryjane," it didn't take long to get the Maybe not physically, but psychologically will become a confirmed drug addict, ex- hang of it. I drew deeper and quicker I slowly and surely came to depend on it. perience mental problems, or become a puffs until within fifteen minutes I was Without it my problems were more than chronic marijuana user. There is really no on my first high. I remember tapping my king-sized. "drug" problem, only a "people" prob- foot to the music on the stereo, waiting I forced myself now and again to re- lem. for the stick to take effect. The high was member the night I was driving home The decision to quit using marijuana so gradual that I didn't notice it until I from a party where I had been smoking was entirely my own. I was lucky, I guess, glanced at my foot; it was still tapping to pot. I stopped to give a friend a lift. Tom that there was no painful withdrawal re- the music. I couldn't stop even though I and I had been friends since grade school, action as compared to what hard drug tried. What a weird sensation! There were and although there was nothing serious users experience. I discontinued my daily other mind-benders to experience in the between us, I liked to chat with him. I'm association with those who put me in con- days to come. sure he knew my reputation as a pothead; tact with marijuana. The self-discipline I had lots of time to study and maintain for he offered to drive. I stubbornly re- I was forced to use when I became un- above average grades, because I wasn't in fused. Because of this I nearly caused his glued over upcoming exams was difficult, the "in" group yet. In some ways this death as well as my own. On a straight but well worth the effort. There were made up for my loneliness. However, after stretch of highway I saw approaching times when I thought I'd never make it. my initial introduction to pot, I smoked headlights. I was terrified. I swerved to I yearned for the peace and tranquillity it two or three times a week; at least two avoid hitting them, then swerved again that came with my companionship with cigarettes each time. I found that what- and again. Stunned, I stopped the car and "Maryjane." I couldn't sleep nights, toss- ever mood I was in when I lit up deter- Tom took the wheel. I'll never forget the ing and turning, begging for release—but mined what the high would be. If I was look on his face as he asked me what I I held out. depressed, moody, or apathetic, it would thought I was doing. When I explained I can't say I will never feel the need for be a bummer. If I was elated, happy, in a that the driver was on the wrong side of marijuana again; it's quite possible I will. congenial frame of mind, then the high the road he shook his head. There had But once I realized where I was headed, would be out of this world. No middle-of- been no reason to swerve, the other car the only way out was up. the-roaders on this highway! was parked on the shoulder! Thank God, my parents understood and Marijuana had many compensations. Things went from bad to worse the cared enough to start me on the way back. The cost was small compared to the hard night of the senior prom. Mom was so My grades are improving, and my family stuff. It didn't take long to reach a high, pleased that Tom had invited me. We life is again on an even keel. Tom and I and there wasn't any hangover either. shopped together for just the right gown have a future now, without a doubt. However, because of the severe burning —a pale yellow, full-skirted organdy. It So, when I hear a pothead say, "You eyes and dry mouth most pot smokers ex- cost much more than we could afford, but have to be out of your head, Lynn," I'll perience on their way down, smoking was Mom insisted. Tom brought me a lovely try to explain how wonderful it is to live usually done at night so sleep would ease nosegay of roses. free from that which they are dependent the discomfort. Even then, subcon- We had a fantastic time. When the upon. I know what I'm missing; I just sciously, I knew I was hooked. I wish I'd dance was over, we went to Pecos Pete's, wouldn't have it any other way. •

LISTEN, January, 1973 / 9 TEEN "So, judging from the overeating, smoking, CAI and drinking we ob- served, we can only BEAT

conclude that there is no intelligent life on "The doctor said your lungs are like those of a Earth." man of ninety? Well, you did start smoking IT in order to appear older ..."

"But why (hack, cough) should I DES (cough) give up (hack, cough, cough) smoking? It's the only (cough, cough, orsi YOU dl cAR1 cough) fun (hack, hack) I ever (cough) get." s "Look! Flowers, trees, reality! Wow, Toe no drugs at all is quite a trip."

"It's sort of complicated. If I hadn't started using drugs and booze, I wouldn't need them

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"Ah, my first letter since I quit smoking. It's a thank-you note 1 from my lungs!" to escape from the reality I 1) created by using them in the first place." LIFE 3E SMOKE IFUL FINSTiRom CIGARETTES 66T EMPHYSEMA 1 LcANG CANCEQ HEART Q(SE/9sE

"I needed a profession in which my drinking wouldn't harm my career. So I became a bum." "Well, I will say one thing. It's certainly an honest advertising campaign." )NDs How Wok

"I call it 'Smoker's Lungs.' However, it's not Ns BY a painting—it's a photograph." TzMarl "No, thanks. I found something more habit-forming than smoking— breathing."

"Of course princesses don't like dragons. Smoking is a very offensive habit."

"The disgusting clod? Oh, that's Harold. He drinks to appear sophisticated." Janet lynn

philip Yancey

Janet Lynn, winner of the bronze medal in figure skating at the Sapporo Olympics shakes hands with silver win- ner Karen Magnussen of Can- ada. Gold winner Trixi Schuba of Austria gives a friendly pat.

12 / LISTEN, January, 1973 WHEN Janet skates, it's heavenly. In clean, beautiful strokes she floats across the ice—pure poetry in motion. "The perpetual smile," as LIFE called her, she gracefully spins and twists, pushing to the limit her body's flexible strength. Such agility has paid off, giving her the reputation of the world's best free skater. Along the way she's picked up five U.S. Women's Skating Cham- pionship trophies and a bronze medal in the '72 Olympics. Free skating, in which the skaters design their own program of twirls and jumps, comes naturally to vivacious Janet Lynn. Her enthusiasm and daring may cause a slight spill, as happened in Sapporo, but she's up on her feet in an instant, milking even perfect scores out of hardened judges. Free skating takes her just an hour's practice a day. But the compulsory figures—they're an entirely different matter. Pat- terned circles in the ice must be retraced, and blade marks have to line up exactly with the pattern. The slightest flicker of a skate blade can cost precious points, as judges come out on the ice and measure each curve. So for another grueling six or seven hours each day, six days a week, Janet patiently goes over and over figure eights in the ice, till her circles are perfectly round and exactly the same size. Not almost—exactly! (The Austrian girl who won the '72 Olympics can make technically flawless figures.) Janet makes it look so easy that she tempts you to run home, dust off your skates, and head for the nearest rink. But behind every five-minute performance she gives stand fifteen years of intense concentration. While other kids were having snow- ball fights or watching TV, she religiously practiced her precise, fluid movements. It involved hours of pain from pulled muscles, weary legs, and a thou- sand falls against the glaring, steel-hard ice. It started, really, with a simple coincidence. "My mother took my brothers and other Cub Scouts ice skating in the winter," Janet said. "Rather than hire a babysitter, she would take me along, and I loved being on the ice." Some would say the strategy backfired. Janet's mother spent much of the next dozen years driving her daugh- ter back and forth the twenty-mile distance to the skat- ing rink. Quickly recognizing Janet's talent and deter- mination, her coach began guiding her through the Midwestern contests. At the ripe age of 15, while many teens are still learning about coordination, Janet won her first U.S. Women's Championship. Her discipline absolutely rules out any experimen- tation with drugs or even cigarettes. Says Janet, "My coach told me a five-minute skating per- formance is so intensely concentrated that it takes as much energy as playing an entire football game! I think I agree. The day after a contest I can hardly skate around the rink, I'm so drained."

A smiling Janet Lynn finishes her free style skating with two perfect scores to take third place in the World Championships at Calgary, Al- berta. Any type of drugs would upset a skater's Another crack at Olympic gold. Her courage delicate physical and psychological bal- and young good looks make her a natural ance. Her mind must be clear and sharp to for stories in the press, including a TV focus on the music and her exact timing. special, "What Makes a Champion." The Janet's life is so fulfilled that she has no qualities she exudes could make anyone a desire at all to try narcotics or alcohol. Be- champion: love, independence, excitement, sides her skating triumphs, she has the satis- and joy in living. faction of living her life without depending Her small home city, Rockford, Illinois on chemical crutches. She's been supported (population 150,000), bursts with pride in her instead by a concerned family and a sincere achievements. Because of her influence religious faith. scores of kids have taken up serious skating. "What really helps me on tours," she says, And the best U.S. skaters, like Julie Holmes "is the fact that two other girl skaters are and John Misha Petkevich, visit the city, put- Christians. One girl, Julie Holmes, is my nat- ting on a spectacular show. ural rival. She beat me in the World Cham- What's it like to be a world-famous teen- ager? Janet said she's probably had to ma- ture faster. "I've traveled around the world and have faced many confusing questions —particularly in Communist countries. Are these people really happy? Can we trust each other? Is our system that much better? Also, I haven't been able to spend time on outside activities in school like I've wanted. OICIAC Janet Lynn holds a huge Chicago trophy So in those respects I guess I've had to grow presented to her upon up faster. her arrival from the Win- LOVES YOU ter Olympics in Sapporo, "The only time fame really affects me, Japan. She is already though, is when I'm walking down the street looking ahead to the in Rockford and I hear kids whispering, next Olympics in 1976. 'Look! There's Janet Lynn!' But I'm just a person like everyone else." The fulfillment Janet has found in skating and in her faith has solved problems for her that many teen-agers struggle with. Prob- lems like boredom, a search for meaning, and questions of identity. She lives a regi- mented life, often finding no dating time, yet she loves it. She's also learned contentment by seeing how other countries' life-styles compare with U.S. freedoms. She says, "I came home ap- preciating my home and country more than ever before." Now Janet is also devoting time to share her life with others. She has appeared at some of Billy Graham's crusades and has spread some of the Good News herself. Would she start the long trail over again if she knew all that it would involve? "I'm sure I would. Athletic competition has done so much for me. I've gained self-confidence, met wonderful friends, had great opportuni- ties to travel and to tell about God's love to pionships but I've won in the U.S. contests. others." Christ gave a tremendous bond of love, so Fifteen years of exhausting practice, thrill- that even on ice we're the greatest of friends. ing triumphs, travel, glamour, excitement—it It helps me keep the fun in skating." all pulls together to make Janet Lynn one of Fun it must be, for Janet has turned down the most interesting teen-agers around. Al- lucrative offers for professional contracts to ready she's found her niche in life, and she stay amateur for four more years. Her goal? fills it beautifully. •

14 / LISTEN, January, 1973 SHE could feel the cold wet grass under her as she was the way she was, always had been. Home was lay twisting, trying to turn so the street light cutting Jerry, just her age, almost sixteen. Jerry, who divided through the fog wouldn't keep slashing at her eyes. his interests between school and rebuilding old cars, The pain was beyond endurance, and she cried out. She then giving the remainder of himself to her. Not that did know who she was—Rosemary?— She did have a she resented this kind of apportionment. She could home somewhere. A father. A mother. She forced her- sit on a box in his workshop. They could just talk and self to hold onto that much. Otherwise— But the iden- feel close. She would ask what he had made on his tification slid from her. She was again twisting on the latest car sale. And how it feels to a boy to be kissed, wet grass, fighting the pain in her eyes. She was no really kissed. "Well, how do you feel?" he would ask, one. "Help me," she cried. and they would find answers in the way they kissed A circle of friends (friends?) gathered about. "Get and laughed together. She knew Jerry accepted her for up, Rosemary," a boy said. The toe of his boot touched herself, never noticing—or minding—her physical de- her. fect. Or perhaps he wasn't even aware it existed. "Don't touch me," she protested, feeling more men- But it ended. Rosemary's father announced he was tal than physical pain. "Help me." being moved to San Rio, a place she had never heard No one did or said anything. of. Something wonderful ended. "Take me home," she said. She became overly conscious of her limp, and her Home did not mean this new place, in San Rio. walk unexpectedly became a stumbling gait. She was Home meant her real home in another town, another now no longer sure of Jerry. He would go on working state where she had known everyone and everyone had with his cars. He would find a new girl. She could not known her. Where no one noticed her limping along, expect him not to. or the fact that one leg was shorter than the other. That She did not cry over the move. The hurt, the strange

LISTEN, January, 1973 / 15 aloneness was too deep for that. But some kind of Rosemary, by not asking, but listening, came to know armor had been snatched away. She felt exposed, as the meanings of the words, and wondered about the though nude. effects, though not really being interested. She'd never Her father and her mother said she was young, she use drugs. would find new friends. They did not mention her Juanita slipped into step with her one day when limp or that no doubt everyone in San Rio would look the bell was ringing for classes. "How about double- at her and perhaps feel pity, or worse, revulsion. They dating with Keith and me tonight? Chuck asked me were too loving for that. She knew it would happen, to ask you—" though, for it had happened on her school orchestra's Rosemary felt up-tight, caught into a single breath, trips out of town; people had stared, and she felt her- wanting the familiarity of Jerry in place of Chuck, self a freak. She tried to comfort herself that an inch whom she knew only by sight, and wanting very much and a half off just one part of her body did not mean to like the tall center of San Rio Chargers basketball that she did not have a mind, or that she did not have team. She stood on a fine balance. Brave, yet afraid. a pretty face, and a good body. Her mother and father were pleased. Their daughter Yes, her family was kind. But she knew by the tight was finally going to a party. Still, Rosemary wished expression around her mother's mouth, the veiled look for a get-together with familiar friends. Not being in her eyes as their things were being packed, that able to have that, she wanted excitement to fill her it was of Rosemary she was mostly concerned, not emptiness. whether the grandmother's fine china might be broken, Juanita, Keith, and Chuck came for her in Chuck's or the new furniture scratched during the move. new foreign job that smelled of fresh vinyl, and had San Rio. School. At first Rosemary was aware only an instrument panel of multicolored lights that stared of a mass of those her own age, sauntering, swaggering at her. Chuck was tall, free, easy. She was thankful he through the strange hallways. Girls laughed, some did not help her into the car, but let her make it on boys did not. All taking their new grown-upness with her own. He did not close the door after her, but much importance. Defiantly leaving their books be- treated her as if she could take care of herself. hind in lockers as they went to classes late. And look- Soon they arrived at the home of the girl called Jill ing her up and down as she tried to walk without whose parents were away now. The house was dark limping as she passed them and finding she limped all from the front, so they groped around the back. Keith the more as if to satisfy their critical glances. knocked at the door. Jill came, let them in, and locked Soon, however, she was able to sort out some faces. the door after them. She knew Juanita because she had more friends among "You're the new one," she said to Rosemary, not boys than girls. She recognized Keith because he re- revealing like or dislike, but she did glance down at minded her of Jerry. Yet, he was more aware than Rosemary's leg, as if for further identification. Jerry, aware beyond the inner workings of engines There were about fifteen, sitting on the rec room and parts' costs. Keith could be called "in the know." floor downstairs. A record player was going, and also The crowd went to a place called The Hole. They a quiet hum of talk. gathered there, filling the place, and were loud and They looked her over critically, and she felt herself free, insulting each other, and each liking the insults limp in spite of a resolve not to. She went to a corner, because that meant intimate friendship. Rosemary where she could watch, and Chuck went over to change knew of this because often she went out of her way to records—one more to his liking, he said. pass the place, hoping (but fearing) she would be Someone asked him, "Did you score?" invited in. She walked straight, in a controlled way. He grinned back in confidence, a hunger mixed with Yet, she felt herself limping badly. pleasure in his eyes. Rosemary tried to like him more, Finally, she did exchange words with some of the but liked him less when someone said for him, "Chuck girls at lunch tables when they were forced to share always scores. He knows the man." a place with her because of overcrowding, and when Chuck pulled a bag from his pocket and drew out some of them asked for help on math lessons. In a cigarettes. Only they were not the common kind, Rose- burst of enthusiasm, she told them of her old home, of mary knew. She felt fear jump along her spine. She Jerry. They listened, though not really with interest knew he would offer her one. She tried to make quick —hoping, perhaps, she would soon shut up. plans. To refuse would set her apart. She would just She tried seeking out their company and felt as if take it and pretend. Her agitation increased. she were pumping herself up by hand as Jerry did a He gave her a joint. She must have been awkward flat tire. She chose Juanita, especially Juanita with the taking it, as she kept up her plan of pretense. He stuck glossy black hair piled high, and Louise, blond hair it into her mouth when she hesitated to do it herself. piled high and with a fall she kept touching as though He lighted it. She held her breath, but he immediately perhaps it might be coming loose and would slide to saw that. Gently, he said, "Take a long hit off it." the floor, leaving a bald spot. They were both popular. "Hit?" Her eyes begged for amnesty. Holidays were coming. The locker-room talk was He laughed harshly, yet understandingly like a about freakouts—they talked more freely before her parent with a child innocent of things. "A long drag now. And about money to buy joints, and how they . . . a deep breath . . . In, not out . . . Here, let me were getting stuff laced with something stronger and show you." you could really boom yourself. It's great, you know! No, she reminded herself. But somehow, in spite

16 / LISTEN, January, 1973 of her elaborate precautions, she obeyed as if by com- a police car. Another light beating into her eyes. A pulsion and did as she was told. The others were now light held by a tall dark-suited one, with high boots. doing the same with the long fingers of fun that had But these boots did not touch her. "Another one! been passed around. A circle of bright-glowing tips God!" Like a prayer. enclosed the room. "A-ah," they said in unison. Laid, carefully, in a car, this time. Not dumped as She did not feel anything. I am not going to feel before. And some fear left her, though her mind had anything, she thought. Tomorrow I will not know I not returned. More fear left her when she found herself did this, and it will be all right. I will be accepted in in a bed. White. Strange. Yet safe. Someone asking this new place. I will not be a stranger. I will watch, her name. After a long hard time, she remembered. and see how they are reacting. Cool, detached, safe, How long was it? Why try to remember? yet part of the scene. There suddenly—or not so suddenly—she was in How long was it before something began to go the familiar car. Her father, sitting straight, driving. wrong? From here to there, as she might measure with Her mother, holding her head in her lap. They were outstretched arms? To eternity? Beyond her reach? quiet, not demanding explanations. Not angry, as What was eternity and how long did it last? How might have happened. But her mother's tears dripped could she know? The circle of faces, familiar and un- on her face. familiar, the voices, began to fuzz over. Rosemary felt safe. Sometime she would tell them how she had felt before and after this night. How that She began to see more lights than she knew were wanting to make the scene—to really belong—had there. She saw lights where she knew there were no caused her to do this, not intentionally though. And lights. Two people where only minutes before—or was now that her mind was returning, she did not have to it hours before?—there had been only one. She was try to find a place for herself in this new place. She floating against the ceiling. Her short leg was now the already had it inside herself. She could be herself. By longer one. Beautiful faces turned into ugly faces with working, she could be strong. She would walk straight. elongated chins and sad, dripping eyes. In her mind, anyway. There was no more need for She was smashed right out of her mind. There was more than she already had. Someday, there would be a great empty space in her head. She reached out to another Jerry, if not Jerry himself. And real friends grab the part of herself which had deserted her. It was besides. • beyond her reach. Terror came because she was outside herself, and she continued to reach desperately, but herself would not return. She cried out. She struggled to her feet and ran. Feet pounding on the stairs, head bumping walls. Fingers tearing at her suffocating throat. wilted flower child "Catch her. Don't let her out. We'll all be in bad!" by Elizabeth Goss Cries behind her. Her feet pounded harder. Outside. Instinct guided windows blurred with rain her to the front, the way she had come. She fell and lay on the grass. The street light burned into the hol- eyes awash with tears low place in her head. nothing's going to bring me up The dark circle surrounded her, tall figures like the Jolly Green Giant. Only he had multiplied and he was i've been down for years not "Ho ho ho" either. mamma take me home "Get up, Rosemary." A booming voice against her eardrums. The boot touched her, not hard, but bring- doctor make me well ing pain anyway. does anybody make it back Someone left. A car finally drove up, back onto the gravel place beside her. Hands grasped her, not caring from a trip to hell where they touched. She was loaded into the car, a shapeless puddle. She kept crying. Someone said, "Shut up. You want us all in trouble?" The car started; the engine whined into that empty spot in her head. Pain. The car finally stopped, tires screeching. Hands reached for her again, not caring where they touched. She felt wet grass under her again. She called for help once more, but now the car had gone. They had left her alone. But they were safe. A light flashed on in a dark shape near her. A house? Had they heard her cry? How long now? Another eternity? The whine of

LISTEN, January, 1973 / 17 young seldom amount to much in adulthood. The student who turns out for sports to the exclusion of his studies, who reads comic books and cheap magazines in preference to more seri- ous material, and who watches not the spectacular specials featured on television but the usual irrational fare offered the viewer will eventually acquire a lackadaisical mind. Lazy men- tal habits are hard, if not impossible, to break as the years go by. Certainly Brian, the star quarterback on Wilson High's football team has a right to pursue the sport which he has such a natural aptitude for. However, if he is also active in other sports, his studies may suffer. Later he may wish he had spent more time developing his mental muscles! Likewise, the girl who serves as the band's leading majorette has a talent which adds immeasurably to the pomp and pag- eantry of local football games. Yet if she also participates in other extra curricular activities such as chorus and the girls' swimming team, she will obviously neglect her homework. The result? Her eventual home and husband may inherit an empty-headed housewife. Or if she goes to work, she may be labeled the Dumb Dora of the accounting office or the Ludi- crous Lucy at the aircraft plant. What's the answer? Activities which involve more brawn than brains are fine if not overdone. Studying may not be as glamorous and exciting as those after-school activities, but in .1. Shirley M. Dever the final analysis this is what ultimately makes a person ag- gressive and progressive enough to land a top-flight position. THERE'S nothing quite like a class reunion to open one's There is a limited need for pro football players or pro golfers; eyes. Twenty years ago, Wes, Jack, and Ralph were stars on but, when age becomes a crucial factor, even these celebrities our high school's football, basketball, and baseball teams. To- must retire from sports. Then what? Usually they enter a field day they work at run-of-the-mill jobs, live in humble homes where brains are more essential than brawn! in massive cracker-box subdivisions. But Jim and Paul are Young people who exercise their minds regularly by read- something else. Jim owns and manages a plastic manufactur- ing educational books, studying diligently, and watching only ing company; Paul is the president of a large construction com- the worthwhile television programs will attain a certain high pany. What did they do in high school? Would you believe altitude of mind. Happily, good, sound mental employment it? They kept their noses buried in their books. Their names will become a habit. But the teens who spend their time spin- appeared at the top of the honor rolls each semester. And they ning daydreams, consuming comic books and books of sheer are proof that brains can be more important than brawn! nonsense, and watching the gamut of TV shows which deal Did you know that in our computer age a computer as enor- with crime, violence, and plain tomfoolery will have an almost mous as the Empire State Building in New York City could impossible task if they attempt to reverse their maudlin mental not match the ingenuity of one single human brain? And patterns in later years. scientists claim that "despite all the pioneering work done William James, the great American psychologist, offered over the past twenty years in brain research, the mind is still some excellent comments concerning the development of that very much a dark mystery locked in a bony box." marvelous mechanism, the brain. "The more of the details of One thing we do know about that omnipotent organ, the our daily life we can hand over to the effortless custody of brain: In the same way that we feed our body good nourishing automatism, the more our higher powers of mind will be set food in order to keep it healthy, we need to feed the brain free for their proper work. There is no more miserable person wholesome, worthwhile thoughts. It has been said that phys- than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision, and for ically you are what you eat. Mentally you are what you feed whom the time of rising and going to bed every day, and the your brain. beginning of every bit of work, are subjects of deliberation. Our brains do not differ in size and structure, but we are Half the time of such a man goes to deciding or regretting mat- constantly learning how to make better use of them. ters which ought to be so ingrained in him as practically not Dr. Joseph McVicker Hunt, the author of Intelligence and to exist for his consciousness at all." Experience, defines intelligence something like this: "Intelli- Many ancient answers which are found in the most up-to- gence is the ability to solve problems, but it is not a simple, date book of our times, the Bible, offer the best advice of all. unitary faculty. The brain may be conceived as a great infor- Paul once suggested to the Ephesians that they turn "to Him mation processor, vastly more complex than any man-made who is able to do so much more than we can ever ask for, or computer. Information pours into it through sound, sight, even think of, by means of the power working in us." touch, smell, and taste. The brain appears to reduce this vast When we let the power of God enter into our thinking, jumble of inputs to coded symbols which can be logically when we live with God in our minds, then how rapidly and organized to solve problems, achieve goals, and carry on a rationally the brain develops! meaningful existence." William James once made this profound statement: "The A child learns to develop his brain power by making use of greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can his five senses. Early in life he learns to react to certain situa- alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind." tions and to reason. By age four or five, he should have ac- To place brawn in its proper perspective, and to attain the quired at least half of the basic abilities required in the IQ best attitude and highest altitude of mind for the most brain department. It has become increasingly clear that individuals power, we need to turn to that Higher Power who can make whose minds are not stimulated and well-fed when they are all things possible. •

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Problem Drinkers Can Women Who Smoke Be Predicted Early Are Paying Price The results of a 37-year study of problem drinkers show that they of Their Habit might be identified by personality Women are smoking more and traits in their early teens—years getting more cancer of the mouth before the problem with alcohol as a result, say Drs. Sol Silverman, surfaces. Jr., and Michael Griffith of the Mary Cover Jones, a research as- University of California School of sociate at the Institute of Human Dentistry, San Francisco. Development at the University of Smokers have a six times greater California, says that the results of risk of developing cancer of the her research turned up identifiable mouth than nonsmokers, and the traits centered around unstable, risk for women is nine times as unpredictable, impulsive behavior. great, they say. Junior high school boys who tend "The cigarette habits displayed to become problem drinkers in by the women in this study may later life show too much emphasis account for the sudden and alarm- on masculinity, possibly reflecting Sleep Pills Are Enough ing increase of mouth cancer their concern about the male role, among women," they report. Mrs. Jones says. Women also had recurrence of Women who drink too much— to Keep You A wake Nights cancer of the mouth more fre- quently than men, probably re- and there are fewer of them—tend scopolamine are frequently spec- The side effects of some popular flecting "the greater reluctance on to be depressed, self-negating, and sleeping pills are enough to keep tacular. The victim has hallucina- distrustful as teen-agers. the part of women to reduce or you awake nights. tions, suffers from paranoid delu- stop smoking." "In our culture we tend to pro- sions, thrashes about, plucks at And the side effects of some Silverman and Griffith studied tect women from becoming prob- imaginary objects, and experiences over-the-counter anti-asthma prep- 104 men and 70 women with oral lem drinkers," Mrs. Jones says. arations will take your breath amnesia for varying durations. "Those who do go overboard tend cancer, except for cancer of the away. Though the effects of scopola- to be more disturbed." lip. They followed these patients Such are the conclusions the mine itself are rarely if ever fatal, over a period of time to evaluate She says fewer girls may become the danger is that it can lead to unsuspecting consumer might reach their smoking habits and the oc- problem drinkers because they of- any number of irrational acts that from two recent reports by Wash- currence of second primary can- ten learn to drink under more ington doctors. can prove to be dangerous. cers. favorable circumstances. Dr. John M. Gowdy of the Food Hallucinations induced by sco- Eighty percent of the cancer. pa- "Girls more often report taking polamine apparently do not have and Drug Administration describes tients habitually smoked cigarettes their first drink at home with the the brilliant, shifting color displays hallucinations, disorientation, and at the time their cancers were diag- family," she says. "We know from brought on by LSD, but the effect apparent mental disorders that re- nosed. Of the 116 who were fol- other studies that male problem sulted from use of readily availa- can be mistaken for an LSD trip lowed for a year or more 61 percent drinkers report more often taking ble, nonprescription drugs designed when victims are taken to hospi- continued to smoke. their first drink away from home tals. Unfortunately, some treat- to relieve asthma congestion. Of those who quit smoking 7 to prove manliness or to express ment for bad acid includes medica- The other report, by Drs. Ken- percent developed oral cancers. rebellion, and they tend more of- tion that intensifies the effect of neth C. Ullman and Robert H. Of those who continued to smoke ten to become drunk on the first scopolamine, according to Dr. Ull- Groh, describes the hallucinations, but at a reduced rate 18 percent had occasion. man. disorientation, and apparent mental second oral cancers, and 36 percent "We tried to find out if the per- Another frequent occurrence is disorders that resulted from use of those who did not change smok- sonality traits known to be asso- the diagnosis of mental disease, of readily available, nonprescrip- ing habits had additional cancers. ciated with problem drinkers were such as schizophrenia, when the tion drugs designed to relieve ten- "A reduction of smoking from a product of their drinking habits, symptoms of scopolamine poison- sion and induce sleep. any previous level reduced by half or if the traits existed before com- ing are present. This can lead to Although the asthma remedies the risk for development of a sec- pulsive drinking began. unnecessary and expensive confine- —cigarettes, pipe mixtures, and ond primary oral cancer," the re- "We learned that the traits pre- ment in a psychiatric ward. ceded the drinking." powder to be burned like incense— searchers point out. Mrs. Jones says prediction of are not heavily advertised, their Two of nine cigar smokers and later drinking problems from per- existence became known to young two of nine pipe smokers, all of sonality characteristics may point people and were widely misused Dozing, Drink, Drugs-- whom continued their smoking the way to mental health ap- for hallucinogenic effects until habits, developed second primary proaches that would help reduce more effective dream drugs came cancers. Two of 15 nonsmokers dependence on alcohol. along. 3-D for Road Accidents also developed second oral cancers. The sleeping pills are a different Dozing at the wheel is the most matter. $uch over-the-counter frequent cause of interstate truck NO DOCTOR items as Sominex, Sleep-Eze, and and bus accidents that involve the Nonsmoking in the Air Compoz are advertised heavily on physical condition of the driver, In London, this brisk mes- The Civil Aeronautics Board television; and while their use as reports the Federal Highway Ad- sage to patients was posted wants all airlines to segregate hallucinogens is negligible for the ministration. on the doctor's office door: smokers from other passengers. same reason as the asthma pills— Use of alcohol is the second "Doctor is on holiday. Stop grass and LSD are more effective The CAB says that it could be largest cause, followed by heart smoking. Eat sensibly. Stop —the dangers are similar, accord- disease, drug usage, and blackouts. done by designating a smoking area by in a month." in the rear of each compartment ing to the Ullman-Groh report in The Bureau of Motor Carrier of an airliner and prohibiting a recent issue of the American Safety compiled a study dealing smoking in all other passenger sec- Journal of Psychiatry. with five bus accidents and 395 In This NEWS tions. The chemical villain common to involving tractor-trailers. * Does religion have any rela- The board notes that most of the both medications is scopolamine, a Of the 400 drivers, 303, or 76 per- tion to alcohol use? See page 20. trunk airlines already segregate substance derived from one of two cent, fell asleep at the wheel, the ♦ Can you define an alcoholic? smokers, but that supplemental air- plants—stramonium, also known as bureau reported. The resultant lines and the local-service lines jimson weed, and the belladonna accidents caused 10 deaths, 139 in- See page 21. generally do not separate the two lily, or deadly nightshade. juries, and $2 million in property ♦ TV violence can lead to more types of passengers. The results of an overdose of damage. reckless driving. See page 22. 19 LISTEN NEWS January, 1973 Students in High Schools Death Notices to Wisconsin Drivers Surveyed on Drug Usage Wisconsin is trying to keep its citizens fully aware of the con- The use of marijuana has more • LSD, amphetamines, and bar- tinuing toll of drinking-and-driv- than doubled in the last two years biturates are taken at least once a ing. among Montgomery County (a sub- month by 5 percent of the senior Reports Highway Safety Coordinator John urb of Washington, D.C.) senior high school students and 1 percent Radcliffe has adapted a Colorado high school students and tripled of the junior high school students, idea: Issuance of a card edged in among junior high school stu- only slightly more use than that black, bearing the following mes- dents. reported in 1969. Heroin Treatment sage: Reporting on the results of a "Governor Lucey's highway survey of students last January, Researchers at Philadelphia's According to the study, the safety coordinator regrets to in- school officials said they believe Hahnemann Medical College and typical high school student form you that 310 drivers, 33 pedes- that 26.2 percent of the county's Hospital claim to have detoxified in Montgomery County who trians, and an unknown number approximately 29,000 senior high 15 heroin addicts—painlessly. smokes marijuana: of additional victims were killed school students smoke marijuana • Is slightly more likely than in Wisconsin in 1971 in alcohol- regularly (at least once a month), Their weapon was plain old car- the nonuser to report having related crashes." compared to 11.4 percent who re- bon dioxide. a great deal of independence. The announcement is being sent ported regular marijuana use in • Is less likely than the non- out as an enclosure with motor According to New York City psy- a similar survey in October, 1969. user to be planning to go to a vehicle license renewal notices. It chiatrist Albert A. LaVerne, origi- They said they believe that four-year college. bears no R.S.V.P. request, but nator of the therapy, the 15 sub- 6.7 percent of the county's approx- • Is much less likely than many persons are replying. jects were first given oxygen for imately 30,000 junior high school the nonuser to report liking Their comments are commenda- a minute or so to reduce that ter- students use marijuana regularly, school "very much" or being tory, critical, caustic, informative, rifying period of breathlessness compared to 2.1 percent in 1969. "rather satisfied" with school. and irrelevent in turn. that goes with 75 percent CO Their survey also showed a slight • Is less likely than the non- Many cards are returned with This gas is then given until the increase in the use of LSD, am- user to be getting "mostly A's" the simple note: "I do not drink." patients pass out—in about 45 sec- phetamines, and barbiturates as grades in school. Others want to know, "Why onds. among Montgomery County's ju- • Is less likely than the don't you do something about it?" nior and senior high school stu- nonuser to get grades that One wrote, "I'm more interested Finally, the patient is revived dents. The number of senior high bring satisfaction in the fam- in action than regrets." with either 100 percent oxygen or school students who regularly ily. Another, "I think the black bor- pure synthetic air. With two such smoke cigarettes increased from 26 • Is much less likely than der notice is a very good idea. treatments a day, all 15 addicts percent to 32 percent in the last the nonuser to have friends Maybe it will make someone were detoxified and had no with- two years, according to the survey. "highly approved" in the fam- think." drawal symptoms. With periodic Cigarette smoking among junior ily. One respondent, with no appar- treatment as outpatients, they have high school students increased • Is somewhat more likely ent reference to the original no- remained off heroin for two from 14 percent to 21 percent dur- than the nonuser to socialize tice, asked, "Why not have the months. ing the same period. with friends "several times a National Guard move to various Alcohol is used regularly by 60 "We don't claim cures," stresses week." camps during the slow traffic pe- percent of the senior high school Dr. LaVerne. "We must follow • Is far more likely than the riods in the middle of the week students and 28 percent of the ju- them for at least a year before we nonuser to have a circle of rather than the busy weekend?" nior high school students, about can say that." He does tell of a friends who use marijuana The replies have included com- the same rates of use reported in private study in which half of the and other drugs. ments, mostly critical, on the new 1969, officials said. 50 addicts treated have been in • Is much more likely than age of majority law which gives clinical remission for as long as the nonuser to claim that 18-year-olds the right to drink. five years. Another 22 percent re- marijuana is nonhabit-form- During the first full two months lapsed, but have been weaned off ing and not dangerous and since its adoption, Division of the drug by weekly treatments. that the user of marijuana has Health reports indicate that 12 de- no occasion to seek help. ceased drivers, 18-20 years of age, CO., therapy is nothing new, just were tested for the presence of this application of it, says Dr. La alcohol. Ten had been drinking. Verne. He has been using the gas During the same months a year for more than 20 years in treating Religion and Alcohol ago the same number had been schizophrenics, obsessives, alco- Religious and ethnic backgrounds tested. Five had been drinking. holics, and others. have a significant impact on cause and effect in alcoholism, accord- ing to a Montreal study, reported by Dr. J. C. Negrete of McGill University. Catholics of French origin were Increase of drug usage is a major shown to suffer less damage from threat to many high school students. alcoholism to their normal living routines than persons from Anglo- Slightly less than 1 percent of Saxon Protestant backgrounds or the junior and senior high school from British or Irish Catholic fam- students said they used heroin, ilies. about the same as reported in 1969. The French Catholic alcoholics Other findings of the current sur- were less likely to have a police vey included: record or to become unemployed. A totally new Their marriages were less likely to • The biggest increase in mari- method of handling break up, and their emotional in- juana use was among 11th graders, victims of radiation stability was more likely to be a who jumped from 3.2 percent of contamination is this current phase or depression than marijuana smoking when sur- nuclear accident a long-established deviant pattern veyed as ninth-graders to 28.6 per- emergency carrier. related to a personality defect, the cent marijuana use the last school The $1,000 unit is study found. term. The same class is in its sen- entirely portable and The converse was true for Anglo- ior year this year. completely isolates Saxon Protestants, while Catholics the victim from his • Sixteen percent of the senior of British or Irish origin tended to surroundings, permit- and 8 percent of the junior high fall in the middle. ting immediate life- school students who use marijuana The study results indicate that saving treatment. started between 13 and 14. religious affiliation is a stronger • More than 4 percent of senior indicator than ethnic identity for high school students and about certain of the disparities between 1 percent of junior high school stu- the different groups, such as the dents smoke marijuana every day. permanence of marriage.

20 January, 1973 LISTEN NEWS

Help for the Addicted WHAT WHERE The nation's first free medical "Pa-leeze, clinic to treat drug addicts opened in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury WHY0.0WHO Miss Simpson! district five years ago. The clinic Just say we still is in business, dispensing both WHO II; HOW are terribly medical and psychological aid to busy—not, 'This addicts who want to get off dope. WHEN WHAT is a madhouse!' " The Haight-Ashbury clinic not only treats about 100 persons a day; it also does research, trying to find out more about addiction: • The Oregon Traffic Safety Com- Who are the hard-drug addicts? mission is trying to reduce road Where do they come from? What deaths. It has proposed putting a do they say a "fix" does for them? special red license plate on the car And what probably finally hap- of any person convicted for a sec- pens to junkies over the years? ond time of driving while under the influence of liquor or drugs. The clinic is chiefly financed by The red plate would go on the the Federal Government. The Gov- convicted driver's car, and the per- ernment's National Institute of son would be forbidden to drive Mental Health put up $366,000 the any other car during the period of first year. The clinic had to raise the court penalty. ("National Ob- another 10 percent. server") Dr. George Gay of the clinic says that most of the kids who • Marriage turns men and women show up for treatment are hooked to drink, according to a recent sur- What Is an Alcoholic? on heroin. But 15 percent or more vey in Australia by the Common- At long last, there is a set of rules period of time and never notice it. also are taking other drugs, such as wealth health department. The to define an alcoholic. The alcohol-dependent drinker. cocaine or barbiturates. survey of 1 percent of Canberra's For some years, the National He drinks every day and depends About three quarters of those population showed that 33.3 per- Council on Alcoholism, while put- on alcohol more than he will ad- treated are white. About 14 per- cent of married men drank alcohol ting up a dogged fight to prevent mit. Having to do without it is a cent are black, and about 8 percent every day, whereas only 18.8 per- or remedy the disease, merely de- difficult and unpleasant experience, are Mexican-Americans. cent of single men drank every scribed an alcoholic as: day. More than 24 percent of the although he will argue vehemently Three quarters are male, but the "A person who is powerless to married women interviewed drank that he can cut it out with no diffi- percentage of girls has been rising stop drinking and whose drinking every day, while only 9.1 percent culty. During this stage the indi- lately. So has the proportion of seriously alters his normal living vidual usually becomes a heavy of the single women in the group pattern." junkies from middle-class families. were daily drinkers. (Reuter) drinker. The percentage of boys and girls Even Alcoholics Anonymous, The alcoholic. About 50 percent of alcoholics He has lost control from so-called "blue-collar" fam- • which has both the experience and over his drinking, and one drink ilies has been rising even more. in West Germany needing outpa- the research to know a great deal tient care are between 26 and 40, 31 means another. Alcohol is seriously And a wave of new G.I. junkies is about the problem, says alcoholism interfering with every aspect of his percent are between 41 and 50, and appearing too. could be described as a physical 11 percent are between 51 and 60. life, although he may not admit it. The average age is 23. Most be- compulsion coupled with a mental There is perhaps even a step be- About 7 percent are under 26. come hooked between the ages of obsession. Male blue-collar workers (45 per- tween the alcohol-dependent and 15 and 25. The vast majority got Now the National Council on the alcoholic in which the individ- cent of those treated) and female turned on from the influence of Alcoholism has established definite white-collar workers (40 percent) ual finds alcohol affecting his life. friends, mostly friends of about the standards, following a year-long He hasn't honestly recognized that are particularly susceptible to alco- same age. Only a few were started study. alcohol has become all too impor- holism, reports the Central Bureau off by drug peddlers. The major indications of alcohol- tant and that it is having more in- Against Alcohol Addiction in West ism are: fluence on him than he is willing The San Francisco treatment cen- Germany. (Medical Tribune) ter does not use methadone, the • Withdrawal symptoms, tremors, to admit. • The Canadian government has substitute drug intended to squelch hallucinations, seizure, or delirium The number of alcoholics in decided to ease penalties for can- tremens when deprived of alcohol. America is estimated at between nabis offenses, but is not going to • Abnormal tolerance for alcohol, 6 and 10 million. legalize the drug. The new provi- indicated by the failure to appear sions will eliminate jail sentences intoxicated despite very high blood for first offenses relating to can- levels of alcohol. Smokers Need nabis possession. Federal Health • Continued drinking even when Minister John Munro says that the there has been strong medical ad- government is still concerned about vice against it, or such social rea- Extra Red Cells possible harmful effects of mari- sons as the loss of job or breakup If you smoke more than a pack juana. The maximum penalty for of marriage. a day, chances are you have more a first offense of simple possession • Daily consumption of a fifth red blood cells than a person who of cannabis is likely to drop to of whiskey—or an equivalent does not smoke at all. The addi- about $200 (from $1,000) or a jail amount of wine or beer. The much tional red blood cells are necessary sentence of six months or both. lower alcoholic content of the lat- to offset the extra carbon monoxide (Medical Tribune) ter two must be taken into con- in the blood due to smoking, ac- • One of every 18 beginning sideration. cording to Ohio State University drinkers will become an alcoholic, Here are minor indications: investigators. the craving for heroin. The clinic according to Dr. L. T. Fruin, presi- • Physical disorders, such as ir- "Normally, the red blood cells is not legally permitted to use dent of the Illinois State Medical regular heartbeat. give up about 25 percent of the methadone. Also, the staff feels Society. The U.S. Department of • Gulping drinks. oxygen they contain in a cycle of that methadone puts on the street Health, Education, and Welfare • Drinking on the sly. the bloodstream," says Dr. Arthur a new drug that can be abused. considers alcoholism the nation's • Morning drinking. Sagone, an assistant professor of The staff feels, too, that metha- number one health problem. There • Drinking to relieve anger, in- medicine. "Smokers have an above- done treatment does not usually are nine million alcoholics nation- somnia, or depression. average amount of carbon monox- provide for psychological aftercare. wide. (UPI) But the National Council on Al- ide in their blood. This inhibits the A vital reason for getting off • In the U.S. 30 million persons coholism says that "there is no red cells' ability to give up oxy- heroin—and staying off—is the high suffer from diseases such as asthma, single symptom, laboratory test, gen to the tissues, prompting the cost. If you're an addict, you have hay fever, sinusitis, emphysema, or physical sign which is, in itself, body to compensate in order to get to spend more than $16,000 a year and allergy—all of which are ag- specifically diagnostic of alcohol- the needed oxygen." for the dope you shoot into your gravated by smoke. ism." The research team believes that bloodstream. That's roughly $50 a • The number of American adults Most drinkers fall into one of the extra cells might lead to a day. who have experimented with mari- three phases: thicker blood. This blood would In one year addicts at the Haight- juana has almost tripled in recent The social drinker. He drinks clot more easily, explaining why Ashbury clinic reported spending years, according to the Gallup poll. only occasionally and claims to smokers suffer from a higher rate 30 million dollars on heroin. Much But the majority of the public still have innocent and harmless rea- of stroke and heart attack than of the money came from theft, feels the drug should remain ille- sons. He could stop for a long nonsmokers. prostitution, and dealing in drugs. gal. (AP)

21 LISTEN NEWS January, 1973 te YOU "PUZZLED? Moonshine-cancer Link There may be a link between the Dr. McGlashan does not yet know drinking of moonshine whiskey how the DMN gets into the whis- and cancer of the esophagus, one key, but he suspects that it is of the most devastating forms of formed by bacterial action in the "Err" Words Frieda M. Lease the disease. nitrogen-rich fermenting environ- The link is a chemical that ap- ment. "To err is human," as the saying goes. But it pears to be found in crudely fer- Cancer of the esophagus, which can easily be avoided when it's part of a word. mented whiskey in many parts of this year will account for some See how many of these words you can spell cor- the world, but that is effectively 6,300 deaths in the United States, eliminated during the production is one of the most difficult of all rectly and thus avoid error. of commercial whiskey. cancers to treat. The five-year sur- 1. err a special business for Dr. Neil D. McGlashan, senior vival rate is barely 15 percent. lecturer in geography at the Uni- — someone versity of Tasmania in Australia, 2. err a tract of land, a region hopes to confirm his hypothesis by Breathless or Senseless studying the incidence of esopha- 3. err seedy fruit geal cancer in areas of the United The following exchange of letters States where moonshine whiskey recently appeared in Ann Landers' 4. err animal of weasel family is common. column: The substance that appears to Dear Ann Landers: 5. err to question cause the cancer is diemthyl-N- Recently you said the frequently repeated statement that vodka and 6. _ _ err a raised embankment nitrosamine (DMN), which has been demonstrated to cause can- gin do not produce hangovers was with level top cer in laboratory animals, including "a lot of malarky." You are correct about this; however, please be 7. rats, rabbits, dogs, and mice. err to convey over water Working in Zambia, Dr. McGla- aware that vodka is plain ethyl 8. err to break in, to hinder shan first observed that esophageal alcohol whereas bourbon whiskey cancer occurred in irregular patch- and some fortified wines contain a 9. ___ err hoisting device work patterns. He then noticed that number of amyl alcohols called the cases seemed to cluster around fusels, somewhat similar to the 10. err toothed like a saw stores that sold an illegal whiskey barbiturates. It is a chemical fact called kachasu made of fermented of life that ounce for ounce, whis- 11. err that which turns aside maize. keys, bourbons, wines, etc., are 12. err fearful, appalling At first Dr. McGlashan assumed more apt to produce hangovers that the cancer might be linked to than vodka—as anyone who has 13. err fabric with uncut loops zinc or copper contamination from tried them all will tell you. parts of the crude stills. But when So watch it, Ann.—Hung at Han- 14. err a kind of fish he sent samples of the whiskey to over. England for laboratory analysis, Dear Han: I don't have to watch 15. err act of gaity, fun he learned that they contained it, Bub. Tomato juice on the rocks 16 err breed of dog from one to three parts per mil- is my drink. lion of DMN. That well-touted beverage that is supposed to leave you "breath'- less" can also render you senseless. TV Affects Driving And this, it seems to me, is more important than whether or not you A University of Hawaii survey New Trends Seen in Drug Use wake up hung-over. indicates that TV violence might Methaqualone is a nonbarbitu- Now, however, the ratio of use cause reckless driving. After two rate downer that affects the central of uppers and downers appears to years of comparing the TV viewing ANSWERS: nervous system. Better known by be shifting, if not reversing com- of good and bad drivers, it was •rap,io4-91 :Luaw!r4aLu-SL !Bup its trade name of Quaalude, or pletely. High-powered chemical strongly indicated that those who L :A.LiaL-CI 1,10.104-EL :4Lia.ireop colloquially as "lude" or "man- ups like LSD and methadrine seem habitually watch violent shows 'L L !Pa40,,as-01 frprap-6 ficinrJa4u!-8 drake," methaqualone was the "in" to be on the wane. "At least," says tend to be more careless than those fkorai-L !9213.1.104-9 31060.1.10M-g !4a., drug of 1972. Dr. Schnoll, "we aren't seeing the who watch nonviolent ones. fArraci-E !AroLpral-z !puorra-L From the now squalid precincts sort of freakouts we're used to. of Haight-Ashbury in San Fran- Kids are getting way down instead cisco to opulent Fire Island, New and passing out." Dear 5ir, York, millions of young people are There is no evidence, however, 7'o d41 Z haste To call popping the white tablet manufac- that the pendulum has swung com- Phor,e tured in 150 to 300 milligram doses pletely to the most devastating 1-h/from From („;i r64ye by William H. Rorer, Inc., of Fort down of all: heroin. curtce i c‘i'66.11 7- have aeny Washington. Nevertheless, because the effect G,Pena7©r a /7C-' Rorer has been manufacturing produced by downers and uppers Monet, I DoT The Quaalude for seven years now. But is qualitatively different, the in- .C44.411 I }l ade pol pine it has been only "during the last crease in the use of drugs like puT Phone h/PC41,Z tio T 12 or 16 months that we've noticed Quaalude raises larger sociological n T an enormous increase in its abuse," and psychological questions. kV/ r tt, rior rrpte., says Dr. Sidney Schnoll, a neurolo- "Why are kids turning to down- by mon aincZ pap 5405 Thi5 1,ve.45 gist who works part-time at Help, ers?" muses Schnoll. "I think it's , a drug rehabilitation center in fairly obvious that this is a society w ro ng To Ile d Philadelphia. bombarded with all sorts of stresses carry, Another drug expert, Richard At- and strains. A lot of people who verri kins, attorney for the Pennsylva- go with downers can't cope." Near i S The P,ritL nia State Commission on Drug and Then, too, he notes, downers "are Alcohol Abuse, agrees. "Right accepted by a great number of I owe you , now," he says flatly, "downers middle-aged people. When a busi- like Quaalude are the No. 2 drug nessman is harried, he'll do a down. —right behind marijuana." Or when a mother is hassled by The boom is particularly star- her kids, she'll take one. What do tling in light of the fragmentary kids do when they're harried by studies on drug abuse now avail- their parents?" able. One, conducted at the Uni- The San Diego study provides versity of California at San Diego some interesting corroboration. It /4; re r ?crier in the fall of 1970, showed that only shows that more parents disap- 7 percent of students polled used prove of their children using to- 7‘11-1 rr_e_tit 57: downers. Amphetamines—the ma- bacco than sedatives; and more "Honesty is the best policy" is an old adage that Mike Carpenter of Marietta, jor "up"—by contrast were taken disapprove of alcohol than tran- Ohio, believes in. Here is the copy of a letter Mike sent to Ken Sprengel, an by 25 percent of students. quilizers. 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