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The series was begun because of a growing concern of city officials, of-ficials, educators and parents over what they perceive to be a growing drug problem. A community-wide meeting with the theme of youth and drugs will be held Feb. 13 at a site not vet determined. Editor's note: Teenagers in Park City have voiced voic-ed concern that articles in The Park Record on vouth and their involvement involve-ment with alcohol and other drugs have labeled the majority oj the local teens as users and abusers. ru (iinu'Jnp article is one Jilt' ju""" - o teenager's story. It is not meant to Your Chamber Bureau... . . . Your Opportunity! I i ( . I 4 V. f, V The Park City Chamber has been an indispensable ally to the Old Miners' Lodge. During our first year of business, the Chamber Bureau directly accounted for 22 percent of our business and has helped us gain much needed exposure. With our limited advertising budget, the ChamberBureau makes our marketing efforts go twice as far. A small business like ours can't afford to miss out on the many benefits that come with Chamber,' Bureau membership. I encourage all Park City businesses, no matter what size, to support the Park City ChamberBureau by joining today. Hugh Daniels Old Miners' Lodge - A Bed & Breakfast Inn be interpreted that the majority of teens live the same lifestyle. The teenager interviewed wanted to remain re-main anonymous. We will simply - call her Gina. This is Gina's story. by JIM SMKOLEY Kecord staff writer "Ya know if you eat well and stay trim you're going to die anyway." Gina She was straight-no drugs, no alcohol-even though she had her chances. But she did not want to party. par-ty. Gina said she hung around with the "goody-goody" kids. The ones that always got invited to proms and dances. That was when she was 14. In the summer of her 15th year, she began to party, to experiment. By the summer sum-mer of 1985. the now 17-year-old "fried" ate LSD, acid for the last time. She knew she had to slow down. "I'm getting attracted to my senses. I like to be able to look and focus and not see six of something." Gina said. "I've learned a lot from it all (taking drugs). I've learned how I don't need to take all that stuff. It's good enough to be alive, to look around and be able to comprehend." Gina has not quit drugs altogether. She has just cut back. She no longer gets fried on acid. ("We call it getting get-ting fried because you just fry your brain when you take it.") She has slowed down on the cocaine, although she will take a blast or two every now and then. ' Gina said she is an alcoholic, even though she does not get as "twisted" as she used to and she doubts that Mill IU Ml OF THE M01MBIE FIXED 1(0). ME MOBTGAGE 30-Year Term How Summit Savings offers you an affordable interest rate 10.9, 30-year term. This rate is available to owner-occupied, primary resident borrowers with a minimum of 10 down. The maximum loan amount available is $133,250. 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She feels better about herself now than when she was heavily involved in drugs. She is a user now and not as much of an abuser as she was. A sobering experience, when she was 15, turned her off from getting really twisted on alcohol. "I drank a lot in the summer, sometimes during the day and sometimes during the night. You know, those lazy Park City summers. sum-mers. You can go out and get totaled, total-ed, sit on a log in the mountains and just pass time," Gina said. "There's not a lot of recreation for kids in Park City that are my age." "What woke me up was that I used to have two friends, two males, who I used to drink shots of vodka with almost every day in the summer. Then one night, we got into the old train cars that were behind Utah ' Coal & Lumber and got real drunk," she said. "They really taught me how to drink. They told me that if you don't think you're going to get sick, you won't. "They said it was all in your head and that drinking just cleans out your system. "I hurt my ankle and then we walked around Main Street. I got home at 2 a.m. and my ankle was really swollen. My mom and I went to the emergency center and found out that the ankle was broken," she said. Her two male friends were just buddies, drinking buddies. She did not have sex with them. They were friends. Gina said she did not really date during the drug-taking period. "It's really hard for me to figure out guys. I couldn't figure out how to be happy with a guy." she said. "Plus I was experimenting with a variety of things. I didn't have time for a boyfriend." She also broke away from her old friends, the goody-goodies. "They didn't know how to have fun." She did have friends though. Most were female. Her best friend in this period did drugs also, but she did not care for acid. Gina said anytime her friend took acid, she didn't want Gina to tell anyone that she took it. She liked alcohol and smoked pot. Now Gina's friend will only have an occasional glass of wine with dinner din-ner and has quit pot altogether, although she smokes cigarettes. The first time Gina took acid was with a girlfriend in June 1984. The last time she fried was July 1985. She stopped when she realized that some day she wanted to have kids. In her tripping days, she dropped about 32 times-32 acid trips. She said there was a lot of "blotter acid" and "window-pane" around and even some acid called "black magic " Gina did not care for the black magic because she thought it was cut with speed. "You shook a lot when you tripped on black magic." "I took acid so much because I never had a bad trip. I used to laugh and laugh . . . Sometimes I would just sit and look at people. I'd take it a lot when I was going to go dancing. It was fun," she said. "LSD increased increas-ed my self-awareness. I didn't know could think some of the things that I did. It was expanding my brain " Gina remembers her first tr.p-they say you always remember your first one. Her fnend s mother was out of town and he two 15-year-olds were babysit- ng a couple of days for her friend's 1-year-old sister. She said the two took the acid and then just laid around the house for a while untU funny g Started l0king a llUle a walk. We ran into a creek and the three of us floated down it forawhi on our stomachs," Gina said. "Afie-we "Afie-we came back from the creek, la my hair. It was like I had this mop and the scissors were dull, i was weird, it was a trip. It was fun even got compliments on myhairoi afterward. "After that, I went home, tool;; shower and then had a coupled bong loads (a bong is a device ! smoking pot). I then went to a pari; and met some friends. We ate marijuana brownies and i some beers. "I came home about 10 p.m. audi Jonesed for cigarettes (had j nicotine f it ) . I ended up staying 4 a.m.," she added. She has always enjoyed smokin; things. She had a friend that ate used to free-base cocaine. (Fret basers will mix cocaine with ; substance that is volatile, such a ether, and then heat the combina tion. The heating process renws all impurities from the drug. Ism will then smoke the purer cocaine She said she free-based withhimil the time. "I liked the way itsouitsl when it was burning in the pipe tot I quit. It's bad for you. It burns lungs." While the high from free-basiti was enjoyable, the burning of it. lungs was not. She does not free-bas anymore. Gina will occasional; snort cocaine now, she said, mail; because the drug is so easy to get k the streets of Park City. "And you know," Gina said."!': not the kids selling cocaine." Inhaling marijuana is differer from inhaling cocaine. She marijuana and doubts that she ever quit. "I remember that on onevacals' some friends and I we wereallh? school freshmen smoked a bw'-of bw'-of dope on a gondola ride. And tb was a trip. Every time I turned i: head, I had a totally differ- thought," she said. "I couldn't Every time I went to tell them c; thought, they had already charge the conversation. I couldn't expi-to expi-to my friends what was happen? They thought I was freaking out "It was a good thing I didn't ha tn ki hark rinwn " Before she began taking dr-r - . i In it Gina sought professional wither wit-her in stabilizing her life a been visiting the same organic for the past few years. , "I wanted professional j"; because my life was tweaken.-shambles. tweaken.-shambles. I was searching identity," she said. "My mother and father pH whpn I was in sixth parents separating botnered,"c tirst. I had never seen mj .., until then. I never really kne still don't know why they -f-Gina said. u, "When I was in eighth gr mom had a boyfriend and ing hassles. I was scared o I8"--, high school. I was afraid tna going to get beat up. You wo . ; rumors from older girls aw mauoiicereiuuiy. ,o.l(j,ei She said a lot of people ai school partied. She saw - , was a freshman there drug users in the high sen than there are now. u of them left the school aw have just changed. She doubts, however, m" titude will change. . 'Tm going to keep jjr! drugs) as long as I ca,,.rP, health is in danger . y . say that the kiqs " , i,irfl n cm blem. Well, they s. at the older men i. u: nnhieS biiiun.e uig u ,", rich an"- I cigarettes), drink hke l'sl J cocaine. , pn That's where the drug |