European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 25, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Inge 6 the stars and stripes tuesday november 25,1986 passive marijuana smokers can test positive study says Baltimore a a person who sat in a room filled with marijuana smoke but did not himself use the drag could show a positive result in a urine text for drug usage according to a Federal study commissioned by toe Navy and released sunday. Bui Navy officials said the findings confirm their position that anyone who tests above a certain thresh old would have used the drug. Passive inhalation is a myth at the cutoff level reuse said u. Cmdr. John Fenton. The scientists who conducted the study however said the findings should caution the Public and those who test for drug use. With sufficient Lime and High marijuana smoke exposure conditions it becomes difficult to distinguish Between Active smoking and passive inhalation j. Cone and or. Rolley e. Johnson wrote in their report on the study. A spokeswoman for the american federation of government employees which has opposed proposals for routine drug testing of its members agreed. This is another situation that proves drug testing snot conclusive said Jeannelle Abrams the study was conducted last year by the National Institute on drug abuse s addiction research Center in Baltimore. The findings were reported in a recent Issue of clinical pharmacology and therapeutics a scientific journal. Five volunteers were exposed to the smoke of 16marijuana cigarettes in an unventilated room 6 feel by 8 feet an hour a Day for six Days. The participants All had positive urine tests on average lasting two to three Days after the exposure ended said Cone chief of the chemistry and drug metabolism Laboratory at the research Center. One participant tested positive five Days later he said. The marijuana was selected in it lest whose sensitivity was 20 Nan Grams of or the the Active ingredient of marijuana per Millili terhof urine. It also was detected when the cutoff level of the lest was raised to 100 Nan Grams the level used by the Navy a Nan Ogram is a billionth Ofa Gram. On other Days the same people were exposed to the smoke of four marijuana cigarettes a situation More Likely to mimic what could occur socially in Norma settings outside of laboratories. Cone said. When exposed to the four cigarettes the participants still tested positive for marijuana at the 20-Nanogram level but not when the testing level was raised to 75 Nan Grams. If 16 cigarettes in a closed in room the size of my walk in Closel is passive smoking then we have a prob Lem Fenlon said. But 1 Don t think you la find that in the real As a result of the study some laboratories that testing at the More sensitive level of 20 Nano Grams have raised their level to 100 Nan Grams to try to eliminate any passive smokers Cone said. Carbon monoxide fumes kill i injure 4 in hotel at Oryland Nashville Tenn. A Carbon monoxide fumes from the heating room Ofa hotel swimming Pool seeped into three adjacent guest rooms and one guest was killed and four people hospitalized investigators said. It s just sort of a Freak act of nature said fire chief Fred Davis after determining he source of the deadly Gas at the 308-room ramada inn at Oryland. The Story emerged slowly sunday after John Spalding 60, of Arlington va., was found on the floor of his hotel room and his wife sprawled on the bed around noon after he failed to show up at a convention meet ing officials said. They forced entry into his room. He was dead and his wife was laying across the bed sick nauseated disoriented Davis said. Other guests began complaining of similar symptoms and a room to room search found several disoriented hotel patrons who were taken to a sleeve director of patient services for Nash Ville memorial Hospital would not release the names of the four other victims. She said they were in stable condition and were held overnight for before Midnight Davidson county medical examiner or. Charles Harlan announced thai an autopsy showed Spalding s death was caused by Carbon monoxide clerk Charles Witt said the hotel would remain closed monday while an investigation was conducted. Mental patient against his will says he won t pay $2,000 Bill los Angeles a a Man who was hand cuffed and taken from his Home to a psychiatric Ward after police were told he was depressed says the experience itself was depressing and he refuses to pay a $2.000 treatment Bill. Dennis Saeger so encountered one of three experimental county psychiatric programs currently under review that permit forced psychiatric care of people who May be experiencing mental problems. This program made me More frightened and de pressed than anything in my life Saeger said in an interview published in sunday s daily news of Losangeles. He said it reminded him Ofa science fiction movie when three uniformed police officers and a social worker appeared at the door of his Panorama Cit Home interviewed him for about 10 minutes then handcuffed him. He was held for three Days at Olive View Hospital and later was billed $2,000, which he refuses to pay. The county mental health department and local police jointly operate the programs that Deal with family psychiatric emergencies violent offenders and less a rious cases. Before ibis people called police when their neigh Bor was suicidal and we d have to say we could do nothing because no crime was committed said Vanzuyt police capt. Ait Sjoquist. We Are not kicking Down people s doors and taking them away. We Are providing Low key care to those who need it but Kathleen Mixsell mental health activist wit the los Angeles network of mental health clients said the programs could be misused by disgruntled neighbors or family members this is coming on hard and heavy Mixsell is sending armoured troops to get people who Aren t Charles Veals emergency services coordinator who directs the county wide team that Deal with family psychiatric emergencies said efforts Are made to prevent abuses. We take Calls from everyone but we screen ont number of Calls of people who try to abuse it Veals said. On an average month in the san Fernando Valley alone the team sees about 180 people and about one third of those Are hospitalized the program dealing with violent offenders gets 125 Calls a month. The program dealing with less serious cases handles88 Calls a month. Saeger said his encounter with it stemmed from a Moody letter he wrote to hit see tary bread Tharp who said she was shocked thai her Call to the 911 emergency number led to sacaer1 hospitalization. Police said Tine team was justified in Tak ing him away after a neighbor confirmed that Saeger seemed possibly suicidal destroyed by plane Era two Midi who bed Twer Boram borne after jetliner chm obliterated iwo Ndah Bortold three month ago hive become us pm Ita tiry to rebuild and move bide in. It s great to be bide Wayne and sue be unsaid during a Celebration Over the weekend it their rebuilt Home on Ashworth re starting with a Brand new Home Brand new Gran Brand new neighbourhood he said. Some called it a cried lion a rebirth and it was hopefully an inspiration for others in the area to rebuild and put their Lints in the aug. 31 collision Between an Aeromexicodc-9 and a Small plane killed 82 people including 1 5 of the Nelsons neighbors. Ten Home were destroyed and Teven damaged. White their new borne was under construction the Nelsons returned almost daily to watch. I think we re All thankful to be alive Neh said. This will probably be the Best thanksgiving we be Ever bus Drivers mechanics strike in Columbus Ohio Columbus. Ohio api driven and mechanics of the Central Ohio transit authority went on strike monday idling buses that nor Mally carry some 90,000 passenger a Day. Tin. Strike by 630 member of transport workers local 208 began at 12 01 a.m., about an hour after Cota Genera manager Richard Simanella announced that negotiations had Bro Ken members voted 352-12 on sunday to reject a proposed 2-year contract said the local 20s president Fred Thivener. The transit Agency planned to tile an unfair labor practice complaint with the state employ ment relations Board contending that the walk out was illegal because the Union did not give the Board 10-Day Advance notification that i planned a strike. Vandals Torch damage High school in Texas Garland Texas a vandals went Ona rampage through a High school smashing Tro Phy cases ripping out water fountains an sparking a ire that did about $1.5 million in damage officials said the Blaze sunday destroyed Garland High school s administrative offices said j. Wasion of the City Fin department assistant school superintendent Marvin Rode said the roof had collapsed Over some of the flammable liquids paint cans or other incendiary devices were found at the scene but school officials think the vandals May have used reams of paper in the offices As fuel Tor the tire Weston said. It was the fourth reported Case of vandalism in the Garland school District in three weeks but school administrators said it was not dear whether the incidents were related. Damage in the earlier incidents was relatively minor. Merry Christmas season predicted for retailers Bloomington ind. A the christinas shopping season which by tradition begins the Day after thanksgiving should be merry for retailer with better Ihan a venue tales a professor predicted of october retail sales have been miming about 8 percent ahead of last year and mos Consumers have Money to spend and Are willing to spend it said Daniel h. Mcquiston an assist ant professor of marketing at the Indiana University school of item tub Ai washing machines. And personal computers Are expected to be Espat Dally popular this Holiday season a consume Lake advantage of their hut Chance to deduct state sales tax before lax revision take effect Mcquiston toy business which depends on the Christmas season for Between so percent Aalto percent of its annual Tabu is Rune Strong a
