European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 10, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday april 10. 1989 the stars and stripes Page 9 education Dodds parents get drug briefing . Staff Wriker. Nissen West Germany about to parents of students in she military s overseas school system thought Thev were going to hear the to Wdovin on drugs from expert s one night last week but  experts weren t even invited. ,. Van y now w to the experts i n drugs Are our  said it. Col. C Arl line a special assistant Tor drug enforcement mailers for inc . Army in Wiesbaden. They Are the experts they know about drugs parents Don  the parents did get an education on drugs during the 90-Minutc session at 1hi High school thursday including a whiff of hashish a popular Deri alive seven to nine limes More potent than marijuana which is made from the . Parents also Learned that on inc average teens arc involved with drugs for iwo years before parents become suspicious peer pressure is the reason icons most often cite for using alcohol and drugs. Twenty eight percent of seniors in inc depart ment of defense dependents schools have used Mari Juana Wilhm the last h a Ftp be near 10 percent use inhalants .1 percent used Hallux Mobins and nearly 6 percent used cocaine the average age of a first Lime drug user in the United Sli Ilos is 11, and nearly 5.000 people in inc Uii led Stales try Crk i inc for the first Lime each Day. Musi of them Are Leen i Gers. Was German authorities seized 11,4 metric ions of marijuana in 1988, More than twice the amount seized in 1984,. There was one Bright spot in the statistics cited during Lite presentation High school students in the untied slates arc More Active drug users than those living oversea1. Except when inhalants arc the drug of Choice.  from gasoline to typewriter ribbons to aerosols. Bui Lane tempered that news when he said the United states is the single largest drug abusing country in the entire world and american teens Are the larg Cost  drug abusers in the world. Anil Europe he said watches what America does. Whatever is going Down in California will walk to new. York gel on a boat and will show up in Europe he said. Aul Horil ies raided 13 designer drug labs he said we have not received a wave of crack a form of cocaine in the Federal Republic Lane said. Hut it s coming you can bet on it while parents sweat out the arrival of crack which is Sims cry addictive and lethal. Staff sol Herald Gib son n military police investigator in Friessen told them of a drug already Here. Hashish is technically the resin of the marijuana Plant he said. Hashish can he smoked it can be chewed. It can be snorted. This will gel Vou higher faster than marijuana Gibson said parents should be familiar with the odor of hashish so they can help identify in. Gibson lit a piece of hash attached to a paper clip and carried it around to parents. And watch out for the munchies he said noting that an uncontrolled eating Binge is one of the effects of hashish. Tito Tib Crl a preventive education specialist wit the army s adolescent substance abuse counselling services told inc audience that there was More than hashish cocaine and crack to worry about. The two most dangerous drugs that icon Agurs use today Are alcohol and alcohol he said. Tiberi said nearly All of the hundreds of teens he has counselled started their drug experience with alcohol drugs and alcohol Are All Over today he said besides peer pressure teens cite boredom personal problems the thrill of experience and a need of Ralton lion among others As reasons for turning to drugs. After inc program Mary Ann Keller the Mother of two High school Slu dents said "1 Learned some things. I did know what designer drugs were. I was shocked Aboul  Keller said that her children have to he Home by a certain Lime each night and  she is awake and waiting for them. I Don t think icy use anything. I m not worried she said but 1 m Altaj s watch  Schwa a surf pro eco draws funds of a a soviet quake victims by John Millar Wurzburg Bureau Sci i Wei n Furt. West Germany the headlines surrounding inc earthquake that devastated sovid a Nie Iii have faded replaced by other news about a fast moving world. Hut 1-3-year-old Ciao rec Jenkins has t forgotten lie remembers the face of a grief stricken woman who lost ill most everything i 111he quake. " saw in. On Atn news the Schweinfurt. Junior High school Stu Dent said. Die lad was crying. She Ion her Home and her children Jenkins has plenty of company Ai the Elm Enlar Junior High school that serves about 1.3 10 Sli Denis. Virtually every child who. Attends the school is pile Hing in to help armenian Earth quake Vicli Msj according Loarl teacher Ehrp Lien net i using the Sthenic Young artists Aid for Armenia students from the first through ninth grades make and a stationery with envelopes thai sell for 25 rents Rath the proceeds go through the american red Cross id soviet Armenia. The students canvassing both americans ind tier mans living in Schweinfurt have raised almost s1i10, Art Isacher 1 mad Heier said at j Quarter i card it s a Tot of Fork the program benefits the As Well As inc a a Diquay a Clit Noli d. We were trying to so proc Ocul responsibility in the Stu dents " Young Arlim and for Armenia seemed to fit the Hill As ii dents got really wiled in helping out the Earth quake victims designing and Selling the cards be came � Lessun in marketing. Students created designs that would sell at the right to tics such is Valentne s Day and the coming of Spring. Initially the Young Arliss conjured up images of ii i Huau a. Hut they Learned that s not w a customers want in the Way of. Stationery the students perhaps not Cali ing what they were learning gave different reasons for donating i hair Lime and Effort. Second grader Melissa gon Alci  what her creations were going for so we can give to the rus sians for the poor. Beau Schey re  that Point was reinforced b Siu dents like seventh grader Tyson Middleton who said some of this Money might help pay for Homes and  while cutting designs out of construction paper u Venth grader Annja Hernandez said the project showed just what students can do when icy put their minds to it. A lot of people 1hi no slide nos can t draw that Good or create Bill dial s not True she said but for Jenkins and fellow seventh grader Melante Schaefer the Elford has Plutul importance the people in Armenia were shocked because of the earthquake Jenkins said we need to do this kind of thing to have better relations Wilh the soviet Union some people thought they re re mans. Why should  help Lalicin 1" Schaeper added Bui i think it s Nice. Maybe we could make friends just because i hair government and our government Don l get along does t moan wiccan a kill or s nol Seal Moncri will be made and sold and donations accepted until the end of the school year. Those interested can ten Lack Bennett or Shcier through the Schwin furl Elen Santary Junior High school. Is Jota Miler is Melvini Sschaefer Rihl and Vunessa Lope Iwko Heb cards