Show vTrTTTrrrrr tttt Tnivi i vit TPnTnTTTTT TTT ’yT" 'MW T'ftT1 ' Page 20 — The Herald Journal Logan Utah Wednesday March 29 2000 Drugs alcohol can trigger mental disorders ByR Trent Wentz impaired judgement In addition to these behavioral change we find a number of physical symptoms associated with continued andor excessive amphetamine use including tachycar- mine called “ice” is also shining the limelight “Ice” has a powerful stimulant effect and can be smoked or given intravenously It is produced locally in homemade “meth” labs A number of disorders are found in those who use amphetamines We find dependence abuse intoxication and withdrawal problems Among die more common behavioral responses It is important that we as members of a community recognize the effects drags and alcohol have on us One of die more common to the use of amphetamines are disorders we are finding aggressive or violent behavior as well as temporary anxiety and pararelate to a class noid ideation of drags known We also see what appear to be psyas amphetamines Disorders relating to the ingestion of amphetamines chotic episodes that resemble schizohave been around for a kmg period of phrenia When first used there is time some of which' pose significant generally a “high” feeling followed risks in our society “Speed” by feelings of vigor and euphoria received a lot of attention in the '60s which lead into hyperactivity restand “diet pills” have been misused lessness unidentified anxiety and behaviors such as ange fighting and for years Another potent ampheta renting his wonderful little 1946 Aeronca Champ the “Blue Goose” was $8 with price in the United States One afternoon just before evening I drove up to to check on die progress of an engine change Dean was performing on the Aeronca Nearly over the top of Saddle Back mountain was the Blue Goose flown by Dean on a test hop Dean spun looped and rolled the Aeronca for half an hour as I watched in awe It was a test hop but the tram is that Dean had an excuse to do Tennis climb a mountain with Melinda you can count on going all me way to the top “It may 11 Hill-cre- st I became a serious aviation student under Dean’s tutelage To get my private pilot’s license Dean charged the ridiculously low package price of $400 which included ground school textbooks an navigation computer and a log book His going price for E-6- B i - confusion seizures nausea or vomiting and coma While these results are troubling enough we find a very ose association between amphetamine use and physicalpsychological “itch” that moves on to dominate our waking " impairment in social and occupational functioning Almost inevitably thoughts and physical needs We see families are put at risk and occupa- Lmuch the same effect with other tions suffer Since “street drags” are drop such as Cannabis (marijuana) disorders and illegal we have additional problems Cocaine-relate- d with the quality of the product The overuse of other drugs including result is behavior that is reactive and alcohol' unpredictable posing a threat to both Certainly the results of drug studies the drag user and the community would suggest we be very wary of Amphetamine use is most common using any medication or drag that can among persons in early adulthood establish a physical or psychological lesson the' Whittier Center rents office space at kind terms and allows use of the : ' ' Can’t ask people to pay wasn’t very safe” Escobar notes Although you never know den Today Common Ground plans this week’s garden It will surely include theusuals — squash tomatoes peppers habs If you don’t like one there’s always the other and mat’s me way it is with the group’s activities If you don't dig gardening well there’s on Friday Soon there will be canoe trips and picnics Last year Common Ground counted almost an activity a day 350 for 254 people “We want to get it so that the' patent on Velcro But hand-power- twisters squeezers beepers shufflers holders casts pods putties clippers mirrors bonds pads ' straps brushes make them universally avail- The past weekend the things they can do were increased by at least two: lean to the left and the sled dogs will turn that way Lean to the right they’ll turn to the right And don’t forget to notice that moose over there McLennan spoke of a skier from Preston who enjoyed showing his friends that “I can ski too" He was what program director Samantha Mcfarlane calls a “bomb” — wanting to ski me steepest parts of the slope ami fly over jumps His problem was McLennan — as a passenger and brakeman on his skis she vetoed his plans “We have all types” she says “Thrill seekers social butterflies nature lovers ” All different but all togeth-er against yoga “We called it stretching but to their minds it wasn't very exciting” McLennan says Yoga was dropped Right in front of McLennan on the tennis court racquet in one hand cratch in anotirer is Melinda a bomb When you So she and Escobar do what they can to equip Cache Val-- " ley mostly cut-racustpm work for individuals “You have to be very cre- mugs hand-power- ‘ that” Escobar says He’ll rehabilitate the chair and sell it to someone for an affordable price Or he’ll make a TC Skanchy is a retired fighter pilot and freelance writer In Springfield VA make a wheelchair out of bike parts In his garage home sit six wheelchairs he’s waking on and three He’s also building a couple of standing wheelchairs These things he can do The trick is getting hone to do them “We spend our weekends up a go-car- ts here adapting things” Henningsen says “Then you say ‘Wow I could have been raking my lawn’” If she keeps this up she’ll need a new bike out of the lawn Not a bad idea — she’ll wheelchair parts He’ll also have something new a last hand-power- ed ed ij ®8JI bikes voice activation seems very far away There is a cartoon in which a sensitive car is saying to its approaching driver “Please stand back I need a moment” Tha’s wha Escobar says to all the (tiles and pedes and wheels and steel closing in around ' ative know materials strengths motors different cranks" Henningsen says “Rick knows all that stuff” Escobar has adapted canoes 'him ait the are for Common Ground and bicydonated by organizations like cles for Sunshine Terrace as the Shriner Much come from well as rehabilitative equipDeseret Industries which ment for hospitals A principal Escobar regularly patrols It’s customer is the farmer — all old old old He’s just returned from tire Escobar used to be one him- self — such as tire fellow who other end of the spectrum lost three fingers in an acci- Stanford University There dent they buy all parts new “all For' him Escobar fashioned nice new parts stacked in a piratical “hand” that looks rows” he says so lethal it should be licensed “Here we have to look for a “A hayhook” he says with a piece of junk that came off a grin A hayhook plus a pipe wheelchair You could do a and a customized handle puts quicka and better job with a the farmer back in business new pari” Escobar’s just finished fit“We can come up with ting a sea support and handparts” Henningsen says “But brake on a tractor driven by a when you look at the time it paraplegic To stop his vehicle takes us to assemble it there's the farmer had been dropping no way to cover the cost We shop-Som- sit-do- ed model airplanes and photography and finally killed him The last time I visited Dean two years ago be was fairly immobile When it was time to go Dean insisted on getting out of bed and walking unassisted with me to foe front door to say goodbye That is the type of man Dean was What a great man and human being — old man death had one heck of a straggle taking Dean r- : te ' V cracked plastic armrests and footrests tha make it worth 23 cents now “I see so many things like technology shop amid the piles of castoff metal and col-lapsing chairs and broken training aren’t availablejo able” Trent Wentz la director of sendees for Cache and Rich counties of Bear River Mental Health Services Here’s a wheelchair tha not long ago cost $23 000 but with his castoffs ' He’ll take the frame from this the wheels from that a plate here' a lever there and soon he’ll have a vehicle wha he calls a rt tha will sa someone free “Hike to recycle tilings No use throwing them away To build a bike for just a few hundred dollars instead of a few thousand — go-ca- Escobar picks up two health with solutions” says Hen- - care catalogues on his desk One is 462 pages the other ningsen “Not iA thersame bed” 384 Each shows five or six Escobar quickly interrupts products pa page “And those ' “The frustrating thing” are just two catalogues out of Henningsen continues “is many” he says As for the when you know it’s out there ' Internet it’s simply scary with and can’t get it to people stuff There are so many things but There’s much more on the we're so restricted in gating way stuff you can speak'to them The public schools Voice activation is the new could be using a lot more frontier Henningsen says But’ stuff But the funding and there in the cavernous assistive “Rick and I wake up at night a habit We have to get people to open their minds about tire different things they can do” dependence I’D use the treadmill for sure tonight! will be charged $1000 to there’s a similarity “You can $2000 for a do so much with it” he says of bike and it’s not tha much Velcro and tha also describes more difficult to make” as aids for tire disabled About says T-B-all have developed a psychological “A child can by a bike for $100 A child with a disability - frontloader buckets do not seem to have much of a future move them those mountains of metal in their shop “My mind’s a squirrel cage moving all tire time" Escobar tha makes a big difference wha it costs us” He’d trade everything for allies Escobar and everything else under tire sun Henningsen Only instead of ' seems to be eligible however scaling mountains these two Reachers lifters grippers recreation is part of their lives" says McLennan “Like : a frontloader bucket “That of their sunny side for a vegetable gar- attempt to lose weight can therefore make us a slave to another problem in diis case we become dependent on a little diet Our bodies are complicated mechanisms and we would do well to watch over them since they are the only ones we will get We are not wise to use them up for little or no benefit In fact just writing this article helps me realize I’m too focused on food and C-4- That's a good way to think of Common Ground and also Academy donates this tennis dependent What starts out as an be take awhjle but she won’t give up7 McLennan says Continued from Page 11 dependence upon us The golden rule is diat if we find we need it cm a continuous basis we have become ic what he loved doing most tracts for flight instruction Air Service because of the Dean had a lot of loyal stu- ' were scarce TTiere were Army' large capital investment needdents who became close and Air Force ROTC flight ed for aircraft maintenance friends training contracts from Utah insurance aqd facilities He Dean stayed at Hillcrest State University a few char- sold his assets and went to until the airport became a hazters and some individual pilot wok for Logan Tire Compaard because of houses instruction for which both air ny a division of Bullens Inc services competed In addiHe worked for Bullen’s for 12 encroaching near the airport tion Dean saved as the pilot years putting in enough years Hillcrest was sold for a housing development in 1957 At for the university’s president to draw retirement pay His this time Dean moved his (Darrell Chase) piloting a war wife Janice also worked for 5 Bullens as an accountant and operation Logan Air Service surplus Beechcraft had Logan-CacTheurer several contracts just recently retired from the to Airport Dean was in flying training which offered him advertising company and aircraft rental competition opportunities Dean was not Dean fell into ill health with Roy Theurer at Logan-- : as fortunate Parkinson’s Disease This In 1970 Dean closed Logan hampered his passions for' Cache Airport Lucrative con gas and $15 dual (with an instructor) with gas There couldn’t have been a lower Continued from Page years and is common to all levels with more men than women using It seems that chronic use becomes' associated with increased dosages and with physical and mental problems One of the sadder aspects of drag use is that as we become dependent we are no longer our own masters What starts out as a high sets up a (18-3- 0) socio-econom- dia pupillary dilation chest pain - Rees ' e W3M ENTilREIEROVEGfli t M Means Gi OlIRNI Savings For You! 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