European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 5, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday March 5,1969 the stars and stripes Page ease rules on methadone . Proposes by the Washington Post Washington in an attempt to curb the spread of aids among intravenous drug abusers the fastest growing group of people with aids tic Federal government thursday proposed relaxing the rules under which heroin addicts receive Sci Hadon. The proposal by the National Institute on drug abuse and the food and drug administration is do signed to reduce Needle sharing among addicts by per muting the synthetic narcotic my Ladone to be dispensed in interim clinics that offer aids education but not the other counselling services Rac thavone clinics must now. Provide. My Ladone which is taken orally and reduces the craving for heroin is available Only loan estimated 148,000 heroin addicts 11 percent of the nation s estimated 1.3 m illion intravenous drug abusers who Are enrolled in so called comprehensive clinics. In new , which leads the nation both in the. Number of aids cases and population of intravenous drug abusers wailing Lime for full service treatment can exceed is months. About 60 percent of the City s 190,000 heroin addicts arc believed to be infected with the aids virus Many Ore transmitting it 10 i hair sex Ual partners and babies. Critics of the Mel Hadon plan which was tested at a Harlem clinic say it is Likely to be ineffective because heroin users arc increasingly injecting cocaine and other drugs habits that cannot be treated with meth Adona. They charge that the no frills methadone would be an inexpensive Way to provide treatment that fails to address the More complicated reasons for addiction. This is ridiculous. It s the worst possible thing to Lake place said or. Bony Primm director of new  s addiction research and treatment Cen Ter he said he fears there would be no monitoring of other behaviour such As cocaine use. An unreleased my a Survey of intravenous drug abusers illustrates the tendency of heroin addicts to use other drugs. Preliminary results based an inter views with 2,206 addicts in six cities showed that 63 percent injected Speedball a potent mixture of heroin and cocaine while 9 percent injected heroin and cocaine separately. The study found that 6 percent were injecting heroin Only. If our addicts Are truly using thai much co Caine then my Ladone is not going to interfere with their intravenous habits said Karl Bestaman executive director of the alcohol and drug problems Asso. Elation a group that represents drug clinics. Of her experts were guardedly optimistic about the proposal which could take effect this year. "11 has the potential Tor being a very Good partial step or the potential for being a disaster if it supplants comprehensive treatment said Don Desjarlais an expert on aids and drug abuse who is director of sub stance abuse research for the new York state health department. With aids you have to take chances and try some new  while Mctha Donc remains controversial. It is not nearly its controversial As living addicts clean Needles such an Experiment is under Way in new  or opening new treatment facilities. In new  no new drug treatment programs have opened in 10 years largely because of Community resistance. The alternative is to do nothing said Arthu Zanko administrator of the methadone maintenance treatment program at new York s Beth Israel medical Center the world s largest drug local Man Center. Even if we could train staff fast enough there is no increase in capacity in drug programs Here or any where  Beth Israel tested the no frills concept pioneered in Hong Kong at one of its Harlem clinics beginning in 1987. Zanko said Iso heroin users who applied for treatment were examined by a doctor and Given aids education and supervised daily doses of methadone while they waited for space in a full service program. Zanko said that 80 percent stayed in treatment at least three months a Rale identical to those in the comprehensive program. What we found after they got on the program was that 60. Percent said they stopped shooting Coke and started snorting it instead Zanko . Fact is that even addicts Are cd Cable. And they Don t want 10die of aids."40 More illegal aliens arrested in los Ange is los Angeles up i Migra lion agents arrested 40 More illegal aliens at los Angeles International air port As desperate smugglers braved the we Klong sweeps in Hopes of relieving human backups at local drop houses authorities said. The Roundup was the fifth last week Bri Nging the nationwide arrest total to 246, the 40 people detained Between � . Thursday and 2 30 . Friday at International Airport were from Mexico Guatemala. Ecuador Honduras and Al Salvador ins District director Ernest Gustafson  made the arrests As the illegal aliens including seven children pre pared to Board flights for new York Chicago und Houston he said. " ,.," the reason they re still showing up at the Airport even though there s been All the publicity is because these smugglers have drop houses Here in los Angeles and the humans Are backing up at these local ions Custafson said. The smugglers Are desperate. They be got to move Ihm out so they Lake a Long shot and Hope we won t be at the  Gustafson said agents would however continue 10 Check airports across the nation  Well he there for a White and Hope  la put them out of business he said. -.,.  roundups started. Monday when. ,79 illegal aliens were arrested in Atlanta on a flight thai originated in los Angeles and was bound for new York. Later monday fi9 illegal immigrants were caught in los Angeles or my to Board the same flight for new York. In Charlotte n.c., ii wednesday 27 More  aliens were arrested As they stepped Oil ,1 i red Mon Jet bound for new York. Seven of those arrested wednesday night were caught trying to Board flight to the same flight on which amols were made monday in Atlanta and los Angeles Lite other 22 were preparing to Board various flights toothed american cities on wednesday right. 31 aliens were seized in los Angeles. Mom who drove teen to suicide to get profits fort Lauderdale Fla. A a woman convicted of instigating her daughter s suicide by pushing her to work As a nude dancer will be allowed to profit from her Story a judge has ruled. I m very Happy. Theresa Jackson said. I m glad to get in Over  the Agre Emern Between the slate and Jackson approved by  judge Arthur j. Fran a will require her to snare whatever Money she might get from her Story with these at and with her 18-Ytar-old son. Jackson s lawyer. Donna Draves estimated her client could receive $50,000 to $200,000 for rim and Book rights to her Story. Jackson 42, was convicted in octo Ber. 1987 of child abuse forgery and procuring a sexual performance by _ a child. She was sentenced to a year in jail but is free on bail during an Appeal. Her 17-Ycam to daughter Tina Mancini shot and killed herself in the family s Coral Springs Home in March 1986. Dur ing a two week trial slate prosecutors claimed Jackson traumatized her Daugh Ter by encouraging her to work As a nude dancer even forging the girl s birth Calif irate to make it appear she was older lawyers said the Case was the first in the United Stales in which a Personas charged with mental child abuse in connection with a suicide. Originally the state had sought to Block Jackson from getting any Money citing a never before used slate Law barring felons from profiling from depictions of their crimes. Under terms of thursday s settlement the stale would receive about $35,000 fur trial and jail costs from any earnings Jackson receives from her Story pan of the remaining earnings would be shared by Jackson s 18-Ycar-old son. Jackson s former Ati Orcy Ken Nch Whitman has his own claim pending against Jackson contend ing he is owed $150,000 in attorney s fees from the trial and he is seeking to overturn the agreement with the Stalo a hearing on that claim is scheduled this week. Lawyers smell Raf to get new office Lacuna Niguel. Calif. A Orange county officials have agreed to provide new offices for lawyers who made a stink Over their rodent Ridden office and its overpowering smell exterminators Lasi week set out Poison id kill the Rak rabbits and. Snakes that burrowed beneath the trailer thai housed the South municipal court Branch of the Public defender s office. Trouble was the vermin began dying inside inc trailer s floor and Walls. The smell got to be so bad that the lawyers stopped taking Ulvy cases and officials closed hip office county officials now Hae decided to bulldog the infested trailer and bring in a new trailer said Carl Holmes the chief Deputy Public defender. A Happy 1aw or is a rat free lawyer Holmes said. It la be  to get Back to the business of representing our  secret service chief says Low pay hampers hiring retention of agents Washington a the . Secret service director told a Senate panel Friday he is having a Tough time hiring and keeping agents because his Agency can t compete with salaries offered else where. We re offering si8,000 to incoming agents John r. Simpson told the sen ale appropriations subcommittee on Treasury postal service and general government. The los Angeles police department is sinning in the Vicinity of $33,000." one ii Ecol who had been with the so Crit service for three years recently left to take a Job with the Suffolk county police Force in new York where hell earn $55,000 a year Simpson said. You train them for other places.", commented sen. Barbara Mikulski d my you re the farm  Simpson said it is particularly difficult to recruit members of minority groups if i were a minority getting out of College i would be heavily recruited by Xerox and him and All the major corporations Simpson said a starting Sal Ary of 18,000 can t turn Many Heads he said secret service uniformed officers whose jobs Don t require College Educa Tion begin Al s23,00pd but their salaries do tit in crease As much As those of Actu Al agents who must have College degrees Simpson said in an interview after the hearing. There Are about 1,950 agents and 1,000 uniformed officers in. The secret service by the next presidential Campaign in 1992, when one third to one Quarter of our Law enforcement personnel will be eligible it retire tic potential applicant Pool of men and women Between the Ages of 21 and 30 will be at its lowest Point since world War ii Simpson said. Without tie ability to attract and retain their replacements now the future of our operations is very seriously i Treul cued."-, Stephen e. Higgins. Director of the Bureau of alcohol tobacco and firearms another Treasury department Agency indicated his Bureau faces the same situation because of starting salaries of j15.000 to is 8,000. Although the hearing was on the Bud get requests for inc agencies for fiscal 1990, beginning oct. I there was no Money requested for increasing salaries