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Show Perialb Ordir Dgpartmsnt University of Utah Bill2 Utah Fait L0keCity SALT LAKE CITY. UTAH VOLUME 16, NUMBER 88 j Senator Charges Hospitals Use Drugs Too Often Utah Supreme Court Decisions ROBBERY CONVICTION - Sen... (UPI) has charged Frank E. Moss, that huge purchases of drug especially tranquilizers for use in nursing hones suggest they are administered without being adequate controls. Moss, chairman of the Senate long-tercare subcommittee, said the heavy use of the drugs was revealed in a study by the General Accounting Office of purchases made through the Medicaid program. The Utah Democrat said the GAO study of drug purchases by nursing iomes in Illinois, New Jersey and Ohio showed that tranquilizers were far and away the largest category of drugs purchased by Medicaid for WASHINGTON D-Uta-h, CONFIRMED UTAH v. SANDERS Supreme Court: The law of this state is that where the trial is to the jury, the court does not comment upon the evidence. State counsel: Vernon B. Romney, Larry V. m Lunt Defendant counsel: Leedy, Oberhansley & O'Connell, 12 Exchange Place, John . D. OConnell See details page 8. Ogden Employment Reports (Weber, Morgan & Davis Counties) emWeber River District: Non-farover 1.9 increased ployment last month. Construction Industry: Gained 480 workers a 25.7 increase over last month. Trade Industry: Climbed by 300 jobs; finance 40; and service 250. remained the Transportation same. Manufacturing dropped 30 jobs. Total non-faremployment gain is 2.5 for April this year compared to last year. m ... m the elderly. While I recognize there are some legitimate uses of tranquilizers in nursing homes, the sheer volume of these drugs creates at least an inference that they are given without proper medical controls, he said. Moss said the seriousness of the problem was suggested by other studies indicating a high proportion of errors in the administration of drugs in nursing homes. Other allegations suggest that patients indiscriminately receive tranquilizers to keep them quiet and make it easier oh the staff, he said. Censorship Topic At ABA Law Day Meet WINSTON-SALE- - N.C. A University Law School professor said here that laws against purchase of obscene material by adults should be abolished. , Speaking at an American Bar Yale Association Law Day conference on freedom of speech in the U.S. and Communist countries, Dr. Thomas I. Emerson argued that obscenity laws are inconsistent. He noted that the UJS. Supreme Court has decided an individual may have obscene literature in his home, yet is not allowed to purchase it. Dr. applied to all statements criticizing the regime, he added, and the people dont raise questions because it is not safe to do so publicly. Vladimirov, who was imprisoned in a Soviet labor camp for over five years and defected to the West in the lack of 1966, soundly-criticizefreedom in the Soviet Union. He said that the regime follows the policy that the end justifies the means, and therefore dissenters may expect loss of jobs, imprisonment or commitment to insane asylums. If a dissident starts voicing his displeasure and frustration, he is immediately put on the black list, with any good jobs closed to him, with no hope at all of ever crossing the Soviet border even to Poland or Emerson said that the only exceptions to legalizing such materials should be sales to children and public displays, such as billboards, which would result in a shock efBulgaria." fect (i the public. . He added that in the Soviet Union, Several international affairs guilty sentences are decided before experts took part in the conference over the weekend, the trials open and election ballots two-da- y contain only one name. Although the sponsored by the ABA Committee on Education About Communism in people are frustrated with their lot, Vladimirov said, those who want to cooperation with Wake Forest be successful in their society University Law School. Other speakers at the April 29 compromise with the system and advise young people, Dont try to meeting included: UJS. Senator Gale Dolf M. Droge, of break the wall with your head." McGee the White House National Security Council staff; Dr. Victor H. Li of Stanford University, an authority on (D-Wyo- .); U.S. Court Won't China; and Leonid Vladimirov, former Soviet journalist now living in London. No-Fau- OPINIONS 72-0- 22 QUESTION: May a peikon serving as an assistant county attorney, not covered under the County Merit System, also serve in the Utah State Legislature, provided that he takes a leave of absence as assistant county attorney during the period the Legislature is in session? lt (ACCN)-- A MINNEAPOLIS auto insurance modified that provides prompt medical plan and wage loss benefits to accident victims, but preserves the principle of penalty for the negligent driver and incentive for the safe driver, has CONCLUSION: been presented to the automobile No. liability study commission of the REQUESTED BY: Nick J. Colessides, Assistant Minnesota State legislature by F. Attorney, Salt Lake County, tSate David Rolwing, branch manager, of Utah Mutual Insurance American PREPARED BY: Alliance. Vernon B. Romney, Attorney AMIA is a national trade General, Homer Holmgren, As- association of approximately 100 sistant Attorney General mutual casualty and property insurance companies; 42 of which are licensed to do business in Minnesota. The modified approach of, AMIA serves all parties best; Rolwing testified, because it calls for compulsory insurance coverage for all motorists, curbs excessive of small claims, and CHICAGO (ACCN) What effect assures recovery for more serious does methadone, a substitute narcases that get too little or nothing at methadone-maintenanc- e cotic used in all under the present system. programs with heroin The AMIA plan, he said, provides abusers, have on pregnant women high medical benefits to accident and their unborn babies? Researwithout regard to fault chers at The University of Chicago victims, and without the need for lengthy and are seeking the answer. reasonable The University of Chicago has costly litigation, plus benefits. services lost and been awarded a $132,865 U.S. wage Persons injured by a negligent Government grant effective May l driver may still seek payment from to study the effect of drug addiction him for wage losses and other on the intrauterine environment in not fully covered by the pregnancy. The Maternal and Child damages benefits paid by their basic Health Service Section of the own insurer, Rolwing claimed, but . ' Department of Health, Education, claims for pain and suffering and Welfare made the grant The minor injuries are eliminated by $132,865 represents support for the prohibiting lawsuits for such first year of a recommended four-yeunless medical expenses to damages program. Subject exceed $1,000. Actual expenses are availability of funds, support for an he said. additional three years has been always paid, for pain and threshold The $1,000 promised. The total for the four-yeis suits designed to get rid suffering period is expected to be ap- of vast numbers of nuisance proximately $580,000. claims which congest the courts The study will involve both and drain off dollars that should be methadone users and heroin addicts. conserved for serious cases. The The project, which involves the threshold does not apply in coordinated effort of twelve $1,000 of death or cases permanent University of Chicago scientists, is declared. he under the direction of Dr. Frederick disability, Incentives for safe driving are P. Zuspan, principal investigator. It under the AMIA plan, will be conducted by members of the preserved Rolwing said, because the negligent Departments of Obstetrics and driver ultimately must bear the co6t Gynecology, Psychiatry, Pediatrics, of higher insurance rates as a result Pathology, and Medicine of the Division of the Biological Sciences and The Pritzker School of Medicine Law School Agrees of the University, and the Illinois Drug Abuse Program, which is To Use Quotas for operated by the Illinois Department of Mental Health in cooperation with Class the Universitys Department of A strike Psychiatry. BERKELEY (UPI) Female narcotics addicts bear by minority group students at the more and un- University of California Boalt Hall premature babies than non- Law School has ended, University derdeveloped Dr. commented. addicts, Zuspan officials reported, May 1. Children of such mothers also may Mexican-America- n students, the be born with a narcotics habit last holdouts to an agreement under acquired from their mothers. They which the University agreed to can suffer withdrawal symptoms specify the number of places in next if deprived of their accustomed years freshman class to be filled by heroin or methadone supply minority students, indicated they obtained in pregnancy from their would agree to the plan. mothers. and Blacks, The study will seek the causes of Asians had been out of class at the infant and in- various times for two weeks over the creased prematurity associated universitys projections of a with the pregnant addict. It will class next year, 30 less than concentrate on the abnormal en- the current freshman class. vironment inside the uterus during The minority students said they pregnancy in addicted women and feared the cuts would come out of on the post-birt- h state of mother and Boalts special admissions" child until discharge of the baby for minority students. ' program from the hospital. The University agreed to Patients selected from the Illinois guarantee 34 places in next years 31 for Drug Abuse Program will be given class for care of by prenatal University blacks, and 12 for Asians. Chicago specialists no-fau- Methadone Risk no-fau- lt For Unborn Is Study Subject - over-payme- nt so-call- ed no-fau- punishable, he stated. If an.actual attempt follows, those responsible should then be prosecuted for their com- munication. Vladimirov said that there is a great information famine in the U.S.S.R. Extreme censorship is Long Hair Ban - The NEW ORLEANS (UPI) Fifth UJS. Circuit Court of Appeals, sitting in full session, ruled 194, April 28, that the constitution does, not guarantee high school students the right to wear long hair. The ruling came on a case involving Chesley Karr, 16, who in 1970 was (tailed enrollment in Coronado High School, El Paso, Tex., because his hair length did not conform to student grooming regulations. of the accident through subrogation. If the insurance companies fail to lt lt ar . ar Smaller 72 - . Mexican-American- Dr. Emerson also said that there is a clear difference between what he termed expression and action. Merely talking about a crime, such as the potential kidnapping of Henry Kissinger, should not be action, not their prior Interfere With Insurance Plan In Minnesota ATTORNEY GBIERAL OPINION NO. May 2, 1972 MONDAY. MAY 8, 1972 s, 265-memb- er Mexican-American- s, agree voluntarily, mandatory inexpensive arbitration is provided. Rolwing criticized plan that would also provide vehicle property damage reparations on the same basis as medical-wag- e loss benef its. He said there is no cost saving potential in property damage and both safe drivers and no-fau- no-fau- lt lt no-fau- lt innocent drivers are needlessly penalized. There a is widespread dissatisfaction with the vehicle of the damage portion Massachusetts kw today no-fau- lt because of this ineqpfty.V Rolwing alleged. The only" way were going to bring about anyv significant real savings, in dapisgeto cars is to legislate some crash resistance into the design off automobiles, he said, citing biufrperlaws now enacted in California, Maryland and Florida, similar to a part of AMIAs 1 no-fau- lt plan. Dentists Told They Must Face Drastic Change - BOSTON (UPI) Fundamental changes in dental education and the profession are needed if the public is to get the care and treatment it should receive, the Massachusetts Dental Society has been told. Dr. Irving Glickman, professor of periodontology at Tufts Dental School, said: Dental schools must make fundamental changes to prepare its students to serve the public and in the delivery of dental care, while the public's attitude must also change as well from preoccupation with what is wrong with dental care to recognition and fulfillment of their responsibility to provide the support the dental profession needs. Glickman, speaking at the 108th annual meeting of the dental society, here, May 1, also proposed the establishment of privately and publicly supported community dental health centers. He said the first change that must take place in dentistry, is its educational program. Dental schools have a great influence on the oral health of the public. By what it teaches the ; dental student, the school casts (he die for the dental care of the public for generations to come. Glickman said the traditional dental school has served well over the past 100 years) but the time has passed when if can do justice to the education of , practicing dentists, researchers and dental education. He suggested the school be replaced by .multicentric dental educational Renters with graded facilities. Each facility could prepare a different echelon of oral health personnel, beginning with dental assistants and progressing to the research scientist. He also suggested the practice of dentistry also must undergo significant changes. The solo dental office, which has been the mainstay of dental practice, should be supplanted by neigh- borhood and community dental health centers privately and publicly supported. i |