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DOCUMENT RESUME ED 056 894 SE ,)'12 711 AUTHOR Dunigan, Jay T., Ed. TITLE Drug Abuse,rs. Resource Guide forEducators. INSTITUTION Capital District RegionalSupplementary Educational Center, Albany, N.Y. PUB DATE Apr 71 NOTE 132p. AVAILABLE FROMCapital District RsEc, 301Sand Creek Road, Albany, New York 12205 ($2.00) EDRS PRICE KF-$0.65 HC-$6.58 DESCRIPTORS *Bibliographic Citations; *DrugAbuse; Drug Addiction; *Drug Education; HealthEducation; Reference Materials; *Resourceguides ABSTRACT Providing educators with acomprehensive resource document that will be useful inresearching and developing effective drug abuse education programsis the intent of this document. As an orientation to its use, two terms arediscussed at length--addiction and habituation. In additiois., someof the most commonlyused drugs are described.Bibliographic references comprisethe major portion of the bcok. Citations are givenfor books, lay periodicalarticles, professicnal journal articles,pamphlets and booklets, reports, indexes, ab,stracts, bibliographies,glossaries, audio visual aids, and agencies offering drugabuse information. Supplementarynarrative material in several areaselaborates on;(1) a chronology of important federal legislationregarding narcotics and dangerous legal considerations as to druginvolvement by students in drugs, (2) a schools,(3) program suggestionsfor drug education programs, (4) list of stimulant and depressz4ntdrugs, and (5)a comprehensive glossary of slang and scientificdrug terms. (1311) performed pursuant to a Grant from the U. S.Office of The mirlrk presented or reported herein was herein do Education; Pe6artment of Health, Educationand Welfare. Howe?sr, the opinions expressed official not necessarily reflect tho position orpolicy of thU. S. Office of Education, and no be inferred. .-endorsement by the U. S. Office of Education should 2 DRUG ABUSE A RESOURCE GUIDE FOR EDUCATORS Compiled and Edited by Jay T. Dunigan April 1971 yelgOe CAPITAL DISTRICT REGIONAL SUPPLEMENTARY EDUCATIONAL CENTER 381 SAND CREEK ROAD, ALBANY, N.Y. 12205 (518) 459-2266 EOARD OF DIREugga F. Donald Myers, President John Bach Cecil S. Mapes Donald Schein Franklin B. Clark George Maybury Amato Semenza Carl Cramer Raymond O'Brien Ferford A. Smith Homer P. Dearlove hester Ostrander Kenneth A. Smith James J. Drislane John Panek Dudley P. VanArnam Edwin Dunmire Joseph Reilly Lewis P. Welch John Lynch William Rochelle Leslie Wiley Rev. Thomas J. Maloney John Ryan Donald Willets REGIONAL CENTER STAFF Alfred J rno4 Direc Nicholas M. DeLuca Assistant Director for Redeign Jay T. Dunigar. Assistant Director for Administr.:5con Russell C. Fo:'-)es Assistant Director for Plalning Edward L. Welch Center Assote SECRETARIAL STAFF MI . Marion Fere-lon Miss Gail Rauch Mrs, Diane WI ler PREFACE It is our intention in preparing thisdocument to provide educators in thisregion with a compre- hensive resource document that will beuseful in researching and developing effective drugabuse education programs. The phenomenon of drug abuse has found most educatorsinsufficiently prepared to face the problem. Most of the educators we have been associated with have expressed adesire to upgrade their personal level ofinformation regarding drug abuse and about resourcesdealing with the topic. This publication is in direct response to that kind of request. Its existence is attributable to the diligent efforts of Jay Dunigan. Those who know the tremendous number of hours needed toproperly search out, review, compile and edit such a comprehensive work can truly appreciate thethanks we owe and extend to Mr.Dunigan. In addition, we wish to thank Miss Gail Rauch and Mrs.Diane Wheeler for their help in typing and preparingthe manu- script for publication. On behalf of the Board of Directors, and the Center staff, I take f-reat pleasure inpresenting this resource work to the many educatorsin this region who stimulated its existence. Alfred J. Cali Director Albany, New York April 1971 TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction 1 BIBLIOGRAPHICAL PEFERENCFS Books 13 Lay Periodical Articles 29 Professional Journal Articles 41 Pamphlets and Booklets 55 Reports 65 Indexes, Abstracts and Bibliographies 71 Glossaries 77 udio Visual Aides 79 Agencies Offering Drug Abuse Information 85 ANCILLARY MATEPIALS Drug Abuse And The Law 89 Legal Considerations 91 Program Suggestions 97 Stimulant and Depressant Drugs: Lists of, 105 Coul!.ty Community Mental Health Agencies Serving Capital-District Region 107 Narcotic Guidance Councils Serving Capital District Region 109 Glossary of Slang and Scientific Terms 115 INTRODUCTION Drug abuse is not a new phenomenon. It has been with us since the dawn of mankind. Why then has it only now, in the past few months been elevated to the list of our nation's top priority problems? Until recently drug abuse was a problem which affected mainly our urban poor adults and older youths. As a nation we were concerned but not upset. Things are different now. Drug abuse has broken out of the black and brown ghettos. It now lives and lurks in all of our lives. Those most seriously affected today are our youth. Those least able to cope with the problem are most often hit by it. As a partial orientation to the use of this resource volume, we would like to present a disc..,:lsion of two terms critical to .1111 understanding of drug abuse and then a few words about the most commonly abused drugs. You will notice the absence of discussion on the three most popular and widely used drugs in America, namely alcohol, nicotine and caffeine. The two critical terms to be discussed are frequently used interchangeably when in fact they are quite different. They are addiction and habituation. Addiction is a physiological dependence characteri-.ed by two factors: tolerance and withdrawal. An addicted person becomes sensitized to the addictive substance and thereby needs proportionately greater amounts of the drug in order to acheive the desired effects. Secondly, the addictive substance effects certain critical bodily processes in such a way that it replaces or greatly diminishes these processes. Upon discontinuance 2 of the drug a gap is created. The body is left without the effect of the drug and without the critical processesthat the drug has replaced. This gap is characterized by severe physiological disturbances in normal functioning of the body. At best the condition is extremely painful and at worst death canbe the result. This is what is meant by the term witadrawal. Habituation is a psychological dependence. Neither tolerance nor withdrawal need beevidenced for habituation to take place. There ie a strong mental yearning and to some degree aphysical craving for the drug. One doesn't need the habituatingsubstance in order to function but does want it very badlyfor any number of reasons. Let's look at the process of becoming addicted toHeroin by way of example. Let's assume that you have neverused this drug for any purpose. You don't need it to go on living. You don't even want it because you don't knowwhat it's like. However, you suspect that Heroin mightbe quite nice because so manypeople have gotten hooked (addicted) on it. However, you know that you won't become addicted because you knowthe dangers and will only try enough of it to find out whatit's like and then stop, Well, it's available from a friend at work Orfrom a store keeper you know or some how, so you decide to try someand guess what! It's free! Yes! Your friend gives it to you to try. You have no problem because you aren'tgoing to inject it. All you do is sniff it up into your nose. It really is quite pleasant. It lessens the tensions of yourday; even makes you feel like the old you. Of course you do get a littlesleepy from it but that's to be expected from animportant busy person like yourself. It's easy to see now that you canhandle this drug and that it's not as dangerous as everyoneis trying to make people believe. Of course, you aren't stupid. You know, if you were to start injecting it into yourveins, that you would soonbecome addicted and that would be horrible. But, it will never happen to you. One reason that you could neverbecome addicted is because you hate needles. Now that you know how to handlehorse (Heroin) you decide that it won't hurt to snort (sniff) some oncein a while. So you do. Now it's not free however. Only the sample was free. You are now habituated to the drug but not addicted. You don't need it and there is no tolerance and would be noproblem of withdrawal if you decided to stop now. But why stop? If you have no addiction problem why not use it in acontrolled way and get the fun outof it. Make no mistake, it is fun. It is really quite nice. *3 3 You begin snorting with your friends on anoccasional basis. After a few months things are not all that theyused to be. They (the suppliers in New York) are diluting theseuff so much now, that in order to get the sameeffect, you have to snort twice as much as when you first started. It's not that you are building a tolerance to the drug. It's just that the pushers (sellersI in New York City are getting greedierand so you have to compensate for their greed. All along your friends, who also use (takedrugs), have been trying to get you to shoot up (inject) but you aretoo smart for that. But there is a short cut you could teke. You've seen Bob skin popping (injecting the heroin subcutaneouslyrather than intravenously). Here is a way you could really helpyourself out and at the same time lessen the chances of ycurbecoming addicted. Everybody knows that if you take the drug this way youneed less than if you snort it and so your chances ofgetting hooked are much less.