Castlegar News May 15, 1985 Cocaine \__ By PENNY MacRAE MONTREAL (CP) — A Concordia University psychologist who has been researching the effects of drugs on rats for a decade says the long-term health risks of cocaine appear to be far greater than of heroin. “Cocaine is a killer,” says Roy Wise, who has found that rats given unlimited access to cocaine gorge themselves on it. They sleep less, eat less and rarely live more than three weeks, dying from drug-induced © convulsions or respiratory viruses. : A rat given access to heroin will limit itself to amounts that don’t weaken the body, says Wise. Heroin has an additional safeguard, if it can be called such, in that “it puts you to sleep so you can't take any more.” Cocaine has the opposite effect, “keeping you awake and in a state that all you want is more.” The only safety net for cocaine users is the high cost of buying the illegal drug, says Wise. “It's just too expensive for most people to have as much as they want.” + USE SPREADING But Wise is concerned that cocaine is losing its reputation as the drug of the elite as increased availability at lower prices and a desire by people to be trendy help it penetrate every segment of society. A study by the Alcoholism and Drug Addiction Research Foundation found cocaine is the fastest-growing illicit drug problem in Canada. Traditionally, heroin has been considered more dangerous because it induces physical as well as psychological dependency. Cocaine has been widely considered to produce only psychological dependency, misleading some users into the belief it was “safe.” Some doctors, however, now report physical withdrawal signs among heavy cocaine users. In any event, the significance of physical versus psychological dependency is becoming blurred, partly as a result of a ‘killer’ research by Wise's colleague Michael Bozarth, another Concordia psychologist. Bozarth found in experiments on rats that separate brain cireuits govern pleasure and physical dependence. Researchers have also found that the same pleasure, or “reward circuits” as they are called, appear to be stimulated by a wide variety of drugs, including heroin, cocaine, nicotine, barbiturates and amphetamines. NEW APPROACH? The new emphasis on the brain circuitry under- pinning addiction is leading doctors to re-examine their theories about addiction + as well as traditional drug addiction treatment methods. The image of the addict craving a fix to avoid the horrors | of physical withdrawal is being replaced by an on the p: aspects of addiction, seein; it as a never- ending quest for pleasure that can overtake a victim's existence. Researchers say this new outlook on addiction could pave the way for a general theory to explain such diverse activities as gambling, long-distance running, cigarette smoking, heroin and cocaine use and alcoholism. Wise says that stressing the physical aspects of drug addiction has done addicts no favor. Old-fashioned will-power may be the real cure. “Taking the poor addict and giving him shots of methadone (a synthetic narcotic used in treating addiction)” is not solving much, says Wise, who dismisses the physical trauma of heroin withdrawal as nothing worse than a bad case of flu. “You're treating the physical addiction but you've still got an addicted person. “In the long run, the addict has got to take respon- sibility for his own health — that’s the only way people stop smoking and drinking and that’ id the only way people will stop taking heroin or cocaine.” New way to see stars STATE COLLEGE, PA. ciety meeting in Charlottes (AP) — A better and less ville, Va., will cost about expensive tool has been in- $70,000 to build. vented to give astronomers n terms of cost, sim detailed pictures of stars. The Penn State Astronom ical Image Processing trans- forms telescopic images into TV-like pictures, like other similar devices. But the other machines are limited in what they can do and their cost averages $500,000, said Daniel Weed man, a professor of astron omy at Pennsylvania State University, one of seven re- searchers who developed the image-processing system. The device, to be pre- viewed next month at the American Astronomical So- ity and convenience, it's a major breakthrough,” Weed. man said. Most current image-pro- cessing systems are limited to picturing one of three types of energy transmis. sions recorded by telescopes: light, radio waves or X-rays, researchers said. The Penn State system can analyse all three, and bring that capability to most as. tronomy laboratories, Weed. man said. “It's like the difference be- tween having a slide rule and an electronic calculator,” essary in astronomy because Weedman said. nearly all data generated by EXPLOSIONS IN telescopes are done so ele- GALAXIES ctronically, Weedman said. Astronomers will be able to study such questions as whether any stars have sun spots like the Earth's sun, or why there are explosions in the centre of galaxies. “To do that you have to make very careful measure- ments of the certain charac teristics in the spectrum (of light of a star) which we just couldn't do before,” Weed man said. Image processing, a method of taking information registered at a telescope and computer and have your transforming it-into a picture image come up in a minute or that can be analysed, is nec- 50.” “We don't look through telescopes any more because there are far more sensitive ways to observe the sky.” But because of the scarcity and expense of such devices, many astronomers have not been able to study their formation. “There's this backlog of data crying to be analysed,” said John Nousek, assistant professor of astronomy and another one of the inventors. “It's delightful to sit at the I — 610 CJAT — WELCOME to Miller Time BARBECUE WIN A (om! 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Selkirk Weavers staged a fashion show for tl @ annual general meeting of the B.C. Assembly of the Arts over the Elisabet Thor-Larsen wearing striped cotton sweat- er by June Vaessen. “= . Donna Moyer heroningy J a apetent Jacket by Barbara H. - tzabetta Korzeniowski wearing her own mohair suit. . Sonja Sather wearing Wendy Budde's Turkistieoat. AT_U.S. EMBASSY Security tightened OTTAWA (CP) — Another security measure is rising at the American Embassy across from Parliament Hill, this one a tall iron fence replacing the cedar hedge that for years served to separate the parking lot from the street. And security concerns appear to have thrown a hitch into American plans to build a new embassy. Now they are looking at what would be their very own island currently occupied by Ottawa's City Hall. The existing embassy on Wellington Street is too small and will become a publicly owned building once the U.S. personnel have someWhere else to go. Meantime, they recently erected a curbside row of steel posts to deter any would-be terrorist attack and now have dug up the cedar hedge to install the metal fence on their parking lot. They have designed a new embassy building for a lot offered on scenic Sussex Drive but now feel it's too small at three acres. ‘The possible alternative is Green Island near 24 Sussex, home of the prime minister. The city hall is located there and municipal authorities feel it has become too small. So there may be some swapping coming up, and further delay in providing new offices for the American diplomats. Say five years or so. LETTERHEAD ISSUE The government won't tell what it is costing to provide gold-embossed letterheads and other stationery to certain of Capital Notebook the 38 ministers of Prime Minister Brian Mulroney Ian Deans, NDP House leader from Hamilton, went fishing on that subject last November with a question of the Commons order The reply drifted back the other day, but all it says is that it is “standard practice for the Department of External Affairs to provide ministers with gold-embossed stationery” and that “to date seven ministers, including the prime minister, are using new or existing gold-embossed or theromographic printed stationery.” It was reported earlier this year that a Mulroney cabinet decision concerned authorization of gold-embossed bright new era,” says the Mulroney pitch. “In addition, every one of our 39 cabinet members and each of the other 172 Conservative members of Parliament desires your personal involvement in setting goals and shaping the future of our country.” “Communications from the party leadership in Ottawa on legislative activity, our ‘members-only’ newsletter, input in party policy-making efforts through surveys and questionnaires, a personal gold-embossed membership card.” NEWS* NEWS* NEWS Three recent news releases: Fisheries Minister John Fraser announces his arrival in Brussels on a two-week European trip and two days later is reported to have just signed a clarifying memorandum with Environment Minister Suzanne Blais-Grenier on the Fisheries Act. Liberal Senator Hazen Argue issues a fast news release after the Ontario election calling for a coalition between the nearly victorious provincial Liberals and their NDP colleagues. But whoever turned it out for the Saskatchewan politician misspelled coalition thrice, misspelled business and urged a larger “roll” for labor. It took Indian Affairs Minister David Crombie and Secretary of State Walter McLean five pages to say that they want to talk to native peoples about federal funds for political lobbying but that such funds will neither increase nor decrease. ALL ABOUT HULL Hull, the western Quebec city which long has suffered in the shadow of Ottawa just across the Ottawa River, has made it internationally. Every Canadian passport now bears Hull's name as the place of issue because that is where the passport office of the External Affairs Department has been relocated. There are mixed feelings. Montreal Liberal Senator Hartland de M. Molson said he got a “very nice shiny passport” the other day but was taken aback at seeing it came from Hull. There was no provincial designation. “I am somewhat disturbed as I have great respect and a liking for Hull because I think it is a fine city. But in one's travels around the world if, when filling out the form which asks for one’s passport number and where it was issued, one writes simply ‘Hull, I expect one is going to run into stationery for ministers and their par y secretaries on “letterheads, i y slips and cards and calling cards.” All that can still be said about cost is that the price of gold has been in decline recently. MULRONEY TOUCH The Mulroney touch is evident in an appeal for funds turning up in the country’s mailboxes on behalf of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada Kick in with anything from $25 to $250 and become a sustaining member of the PC Canada fund with a gold-embossed membership card. “As prime minister, I am eager to enlist your advice, your confidence and your counsel as we lead Canada into a s because there is more than one city of Hull.” Government leader Duff Roblin told his upper chamber colleague: “I suppose one could argue there is only one Hull in Canada but I'm not even sure of that.” Senator Louis Robichaud, New Brunswick: “There is Bobby (Hull) from Winnipeg.” Roblin, a former premier of Manitoba: that is the case.” Senator Paul Lafond: “As the only native and continuing resident of Hull in this chamber, I may say that I am delighted to see it on the internatiohal map.” Note: Hull is still the best place for night-time action in the minds of many Ottawa-area residents. ‘I have to admit NEW DANIELLE STEEL BOOK ‘ENGROSSING' By JUDY WEARMOUTH Librarian Danielle Steel's many readers will be delighted to see a new novel from her prolific pen. In Family Album, she tells the story of the complex lives of the Thayer family through two generations, showing how the problems of two glittering parents reflect on the lives of five children. Faye Price, movie star, marries Ward Thayer, playboy heir. Money slips through their fingers and they’re forced to work their way through the ranks of Hollywood, she directing and he producing. Each of their children reacts differently to the pressures of growing up in such a family and the way each comes to terms with the contrasts of wealth and power, defeat and survival, makes engrossing reading. * 6* @ Dick Francis is another writer with a large following. His latest racing mystery called Proof involves Tony, a young wine merchant whose winetasting expertise is JUDY WEARMOUTH ... librarian tension of a secret wartime mission between Washington and Israel * 2 « enlisted to substantiate a liquor scam. The expos: of that scam leads to a grisly murder whose brutal aftermath spreads to the world of three-year-old thoroughbreds. Tony is a charming innocent caught in a web of complexity and violence, who wonders as he _erouches behind a stack of champagne cases with his pursuers coming closer, why his life had taken a turn far wilder than his most outrageous fantasies. India is very much in vogue at present, and this interest should be stimulated by In Custedy, a novel by Anita Desai, one of India’s most gifted contemporary writers. The hero is an Indian “little man,” a teacher who is so desperately in love with poetry that he gives up nearly everything to be close to a great poet. His struggle to free himself from the restrictions of everyday living is set against a tempestuous Indian Bohemia where art and real life, Muslim and Hindu, clash. Desai gives us an emotional jolt with this vivid picture of India of yesterday and today in dramatic conflict . oe Those who enjoyed the movie A Passage to India might like to continue the Indian theme by reading E.M. Forster's classic in attractive paperback format . * @ Inside, Outside is Herman Wouk's first novel in seven years. In it he moves from the grand themes that won him international acclaim to a different, more personal one, the quest for identity. Inside, Outside spans more than 60 years as it moves from the pre-war innocence of the ‘20s and 30s to the turbulence of the present day. Among the many scenes of rollicking family humor and show business comedy are bittersweet episodes of first love relived after 40 years and the A flamboy rags to riches tale, All the Days of My Life by Hilary Bailey, traces the career of a pretty five-year-old, evacuated from the slums of wartime London to escape the bombs. As the youngest and prettiest evacuee, Mary Waterhouse is taken to live in comfort on Lord Allaun's estate but after the war she's plunged back into the sordid life of the slums. She loses a husband in shocking circumstances and is left to fend for herself with a small baby and no money. What can she do? Resourceful as well as beautiful, she moves from petty crime to high society, from prostitution to respectability and a fortune . 2 « Here's a boon to the cook who loves to produce rich and delectable sauces, lasagnes and flambes but feels guilty about so doing. Held the Fat, Sugar and Salt by Goldie Silverman and Jaqueline Williams shows us how to reduce these “common villains” in our diet by the use of substitutions and new techniques which don't sacrifice the flavors. We can then serve up the goods confident in the knowledge they'll also be good for us. . 28 @ George Coutauld, his wife, four children, six dogs, two cows, 60 ponies, and assorted ducks, rabbits and hedgehogs live on 10 acres in rural Southeastern England. Am Axe, a Spade and Ten Acres is the author's reminiscences of the family’s efforts to transform the neglected hodgepodge of lawns and flowerbeds, pasture, swamp and woodland into a united garden and nature preserve. His delicious sense of humor illumines a text he warns us will ramble “like the garden, among diversion ary paths.” Scattered throughout the book are charming line drawings and maps of the property's progress towards their goal