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Kiwanians, Radio Station Plan Drug Series

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4
Month
June
Year
1970
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Area Kiwanis Clubs in cooperation with radio station WAAM will present a series of programs on drugs and their relation to today's youth and society. The six-part series, entitled "Dialogue-Drugs in Sickness and in Health," will be aired at 7:05 p.m. beginning Monday, June 8 on WAAM and continuing each Monday and Tuesday night for "three weeks. The one hour program will be moderated by Larry Zimmer.
Each program will open with a short drama about a particular drug and will be followed by discussion of the subject by a panel of experts on drugs and their use and abuse. The last portion of each program will be open to telephone calls from the public to which the panel will respond.
The first program will deal with the drug Methadrine and how three teen-agers get caught in the grip of "speed.” On the panel will be Attorney Loren W. Campbell who is representing the Drug Alert Committee of area Kiwanis Clubs; Dr. Derrick H. Miller, University professor of psychiatry; Matthew Lampe, a worker in local drug clinics; Ann Arbor Police Chief Walter Krasny; and Tho. mas F. Shea, assistant county prosecuting attorney and president of the Dexter Kiwanis club.
The second program, on Tuesday evening. will consider gasoline sniffing. On the panel will be Steven Swartz, graduate student and drug clinic worker; the Rev. Richard Singleton, pastor of St. Aidan's Episcopal Church; Dr. Stanley H. Schuman, U-M School of Public Health epidemiologist and Chief Krasny, Shea and Loren Campbell. Lampe, Singleton and Campbell are members of the Ann Arbor Mayor's Committee on problems of drug abuse.
In future programs subjects discussed include the hard drugs, glue sniffing, LSD, and the pains of withdrawal.
The presentations are produced by Jory Sherman.
The coordinator for the Kiwanis Clubs, Campbell, says: “We hope to tell it like it is from all sides without condoning or condemning. People of all ages and from every avenue of society have an interest in and concern with drug use and abuse. Attitudes vary from one extreme to another. It is difficult to separate scientific fact from myth and prejudice. We hope in this series to present many of these views and as many facts or truths as are available to us. We hope also to learn something about community attitudes, as may be revealed from written or telephone questions to station WAAM. It is the purpose of the station and the several Ann Arbor area Kiwanis Clubs to develop a community-wide forum that will be educational, and that will make some constructive impact on the abusive use of mind-altering drugs in society."