European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 7, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                More funds urged for aids research monday july 1986 the stars and stripes Washington not the pub Lic health service has proposed More than doubling the Federal Budge for re search and Ireat Manl of inc deadly Dis ease aids. The proposal comes Jusi five months Afler president Reagan asked Congress to Cut Federal spending for Al is research. Congress appropriated $233.8 million for he current fiscal year which ends Sci. To. Reagan proposed culling this to s213.2 million. Confidential budget documents show that the Public health sen ice is propos ing s.15i.i million for 1987 and $471.1 million for 1938. Or. Waller r. Now dec. Coordinator of aids activities for the Public health service who said he did not know How the budget request would be received elsewhere in inc administration said health officials believe aids is a major problem and it needs  White House officials declined to comment on the request until James c. Miller Iii the president s budget director could review inc proposal. The new budget request submitted to Secretary of health and human services or. Otis r. Bowen seeks j68.8 million for health education and risk reduction activities in 1988. Thai is More than three times Reagan s 1987 request of j21.i million. In addition the Public health service is seeking $50.5 million for development and evaluation of a vaccine in 1988, up from Reagan s 1987 request of si8.7 million and j144.8 million for therapeutic drug research up from Reagan s request of �57,2 million. The drug research proposal would in clude about $20 million for a five year $100 million program announced for intensified research Al 14 research centers. The new budget request reflects inc Goy can men s pro Calion of a Sharp increase in cases of acquired immune deficiency syn drome to Date the government has re corded 22,173 cases of aids and 12.186 deaths from the disease. The Public health service has estimated thai by the end of 1991 there would be a cumulative total of 270,000cases and 179,000 deaths. The Public health service is part of the department of health and human sen ices. 1 n the past the department the office of management and budget and the presi Dent have sought less than the Public health service recommended. But con Gress has consistently appropriated Mare than the administration requested. Overall inc Public health service proposal for 1987 is 65 percent higher than Reagan s request of ii 13.2 million. Health officials Are recommending that Reagan Send Congress a revised request in the form of a budget amendment. Officials Al the department of health and human services said they assumed they would have to find savings elsewhere in inc department s budget to offset any additional spending on aids. In the absence of an effective vaccine or drug the Public health service re quest emphasizes Public education. We have to undo the general perception Hal this is a Gay  Dowdle said. It is a sexually transmitted  the Public health service is seeking $12,8 million to develop an aids school curriculum and school health education  conservatives Are Likely to oppose such instruction As they oppose Many sex education programs. But Dowdle said the sense of urgency is somewhat different Here. It s not a matter of philosophy and religious taboos. We Are talking about prevention in life and death  under the new proposal the aids budget of the National institutes of health would soar to $185.8 million in 1988 from the current 1134.7 million. The aids budget of the food and drug administration $9.5 million this year would Rise to $15.7 million in 1988 under the proposal. The budget of the centers for disease control would Rise to $107.1 million from $62.1 million. Farm Sitters Edwin and Pauline Droxler of fables by gave up Ihetu own sum last year bul ire still in the farming business. Their finn Silt to service Biby Slu firms for but owner for t fee at $100�dmjors500eel insane inmate escapes from Ohio Hospital Columbus Ohio a a Man who was found Innocci of three rapes because doctors testified he had up to Nodiff Creel personalities has escaped from a menial Hospital. William Milligan was reported missing sat urday from the Central Ohio psychiatric Hospi Tal West of downtown Columbus Friday afternoon. Said or. Dan Davis inc administrator on duty Al the Hospital. Milligan 3 1. Was Loun l in"0"11 to reason insanity in 1978 in the rapes of three. Women near the Ohio stale University Campus m 1977. The Case attracted National attention when Floe tors testified he suffered from a rare disorder m Keves who also whole Flowers for Algernon claimed Milligan had up to 24 distinct personal following his 1978 irial millies was in tothe Athens menial Center about 70 Miles South of co Umbus where he was confined for Severa years then lived under supervision in a Rural of was charge Iwuh vandalism for driving a vehicle from which a shot was fired at inc property of a mental health Cen Waung trial on the charges. Milligan Wip toned in psychiatric Cuddy in Columbu. The charges were dismissed in l9vb"1 Milli Gan was ordered to remain in the Hospital. Some medication successful in treating cocaine addiction los Angeles times a Small bul growing number of physicians around the country arc finding hat even the most severely addicted cocaine users can be Irea cd successfully with medications that i Lucr Block inc craving for cocaine or Block the euphoria normally produced by ii much As my Ladone blocks inc effects of heroin. Unlike methadone however these prescription drugs Are not addictive and can be Given on an outpatient  of them Are sold for other purposes such As to combat depression Correct menstrual abnormalities or prevent  have shown that the drugs can help up to 75 per cell of cocaine addicts get free from drug use. Bul the new drugs have been slow to be accepted by most Large hospitals and clinics that offer drug detoxification at least in part because of the attitude that treating drug addiction with another drug May Send the wrong message to the abuser. Nonetheless a consensus is beginning to emerge that the new medications will be More widely used As cheaper and More addictive forms of cocaine called crack in the East and Rock in the West become More widely  use of the such drugs to treat cocaine addiction is based on the increasing knowledge of cocaine s effects on the body the most important of which is the euphoria created by disruption of communication be tween brain cells which interact by Means of chemical messengers called . After a brain cell receives a chemical message it sends the neural Gansmiller Back so that it can be used again. Most investigators now think that cocaine both stimulates the synthesis of  particularly one called dopamine and blocks their return. Dopamine and other  then accumulate in abnormally High quantities at the receiving cells flooding and Over stimulating hem. This flooding s thought to produce the euphoria associated with cocaine  of the overproduction of neural Ransom liners however the brain eventually runs out of the Chemi cals from which they Are made. The users then become depressed and develop a Strong craving for cocaine. If they get High again the depletion of neurotransmitters is increased and the craving and depression Are worse the next Lime the users comes Down. Many researchers now believe that this process can be Short circuited by the use of drugs that either Block the receptors or stimulate the increased synthesis of  Jeffrey Rosecan director of the cocaine abuse treatment program Al Columbia Preib Lenan medical Center in new York for example has been treating cocaine addicts with the antidepressant in i praline which is known by the Trade name to frail. Rosecan accidentally discovered the effect of irn i praline while treating patients for cocaine related depression. When two or his patients taking la antidepressant discovered Hal they could no longer get High on cocaine Rosecan recalled "1 knew then thai 1 was on to  has treated about 250 patients with Isipra mine with a Success rate of about 75  results he said Are especially impressive because none of the patients was hospitalized. All re turned to their communities where they were subject to the temptations that hooked them on cocaine in the first  these drugs can cure the immediate craving for cocaine they have no effect on the underlying psychological problems thai May have led to the addictions in the Fust place