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Show Search for ultimate reality Drug panel expresses opinions of social workers and users "You're not digging life you're searching for ultimate reality. You find out the world's a big mess." This was a statement by a rehabilitated drug user Tuesday in a panel discussing "Drug Abuse A Community Com-munity Responsibility." Revolving around Salt Lake's Drug Crisis Center, the panel included Steve Craig and Howard Worthin, Salt Lake County Detention Center; Terry Davidson, Drug Crisis Center; Bill Nichols, Alcholism and Drug Abuse Clinic; and two drug users. The drug users explained that most people have a tendency to lump all drug users together everybody every-body from marijuana smokers to heroin addicts. This can be one of the most damaging attitudes towards the occasional or light drug user, they said. For those people, drugs are a release from daily tensions, but generally do not lead to more involvement, involve-ment, was their opinion. "These people haven't got any foundation," he said. Fifty percent of them have no home life. They sleep wherever they can. Their foundation has been destroyed. Workers at Drug Crisis Center often find It hard to get close to these abusers, Davidson said. "It's like hitting your head against a wall. They don't trust anybody." Davidson continued by saying that there has to be "someplace between the State Industrial School and the mental hospital" for these kind of people. "They need to go where they can become kids again, all the way," he said. "They've got to grow up again, throw temper tantrums and do other things just like they were kids." "Although they look like adults they've really got to grow up all over again," he said. The drug abuse panel was held in connection with a week-long "General Practice Review" at the University Uni-versity Medical Center. The program is sponsored by the University College of Medicine in cooperation coopera-tion with Intermountain Regional Medical Program and Roche Laboratories. ! |
