Medical use of pot, heroin to be checked
WASHINGTON (UPI) With an eye
. to relieving t le pain many cancer
A. patients suffer, President Carter's top
'health adviser said yesterday the ad
ministration will examine whether
heroin and marijuana might have a
legitimate medical use.
Dr. Peter Bourne said he has asked
• U.S. Surgeon General Julius Richmond
to look at both heroin and marijuana
from a scientifit standpoint.
With heroin, Bourne said, the
government will try to assess whether
the controversial drug might be used to
Microwave bombardment
of U.S. embassy goes up
WASHINGTON ( UPI) The State eavesdropping devices on the embassy's
Department said yesterday the Russians top floor.
.have sharply increased their microwave Trattner said the new, intensified
bombardment .of the U.S. Moscow radiation bursts reached the power of
embassy over the past two months. ' nine microwatts per square centimeter
Department spokesman John Trattner one microwatt below the Soviet in
said there have been bursts of increased du stria' safety standard and con
radiation, lasting less than one hour siderably below the U.S. safety stan
each, since Sept. 7. dard.
After the United States filed protests
He said the State Department has last year, U.S. officials said the Soviets
brought up the subject with Soviet of- dropped the radiation level to about two
'ficials, but has received no explanation. thicrowatts per square centimenter.
Officially, the Soviets have always U.S. officials speculate that the
denied that they beam microwaves at • microwaves are part of a sophisticated
the U.S. embassy. They maintain the Soviet eavesdropping system, which
source of the radiation, which provoked reflect sound waves.
a health scare when it became public Trattner said there is no evidence to
:knowledge last year, is leakage from the date that the radiation has had any ill
electronic communications and effects on • embassy employees.
Board of Trustees meeting, Room 402 Keller.
Registration deadline for College Bowl competitions to take place week of Dec.
5 is Friday, Nov. 11, Room 203 A I lUB.
Free U course description deadline is Friday, Nov. 11.
FSHA, A New Orleans Dinner, Maple Room, Henderson. For reservations,
phone 865-7441.
University Press Book Show, 9 a.m. - 4 p.m., Kern lobby.
Selections from the CBS award winning "60 Minutes." "The Pomeroy File,"
2nd period; "Enemy of the People," 3rd period; "End of a Salesman," 4th
period; "Winning," sth period; HUB Gallery.
ASA Budget Committee meeting, 12:45 p.m., Room 307 HUB.
Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship, 6:30 p.m., Room 318 HUB.
Alliance Student Fellowship, 7 p.m., Room 319 HUB.
Free 11, yoga class, 7 p.m., Room 225 HUB.
I'SU Association of the Handicapped, 7 p.m., Room 323 HUB.
Tau Beta Pi meeting, 7 p.m., Room 104 Osmond.
Free 11, disco class, 7:30 p.m., HUB ballroom.
Front lash meeting. 7:30 p.m., Room 312 Boucke.
P.S.O.C. Sailing Division meeting, 7:30 p.m., Room 214 Boucke.
Runners Night, a panel discussion of all types of running, 7:30 p.m., Room 112
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alleviate the pain of terminally ill lung
cancer patients.
For example, he said, persons dying of
lung cancer often have coughs that
cause excruciating pain. He said the
British have learned heroin will sup
press the cough.
Bourne said the government also will
try to determine whether marijuana
might help ease nausea in persons un
dergoing chemotherapy treatments,
which are used in an attempt lo kill
cancer cells.
Bourne said the purpose of using
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heroin and marijuana would not be to profession stemming from their
treat cancer, but to alleviate pain, and classification as drugs of criminal
he warned that the government is not abuse.
advocating such use at this point. The National Cancer Institute,
"It may turn out not to be effective," however, already is considering ex
he said. perimenting with marijuana to see if the
Bourne said he proposed the two drugs drug can reduce nausea in cancer
be studied in a letter to Richmond Sept. patients.
21 after consulting with Carter. The let- Marijuana was used in the late 1800 s
ter was not made public. and early 1900 s as a sedative and to
Heroin and marijuana are rarely used relieve pain or muscle spasm in a
as medicine, Bourne said, not because variety of diseases. But it fell from
they are illegal, but partly because of a favor because doctors could not
general timidity in the medical determine how much to use.
FDA claiming evidence
in liquid protein deaths
WASHINGTON (UPI) There is tool at our disposal to get it off the
stong evidence that liquid protein has market" if problems prove even
caused or was "at least a contributing more widespread.
factor" in the deaths of 10 obese "We have what we are afraid may
women using it to lose weight, the be only the tip of the iceberg,"
Food and Drug Administration Kennedy said.
reported yesterday.
• Six other deaths have also occurred The FDA said the 10 deaths in
. among persons on the diet, but question all were due to irregular
doctors are more skeptical about the heartbeat and all the women were
cause •in these cases because the under medical supervision when they
patients had other medical problems died eight of them in hospitals.
which may have been a factor. Kennedy said FDA also has reports
FDA Commissioner Donald Ken- of "a number of severe illnesses" and
nedy told a news conference his that both the deaths and illnesses
agency - now will require a warning "involve people who subsisted on this
label on predigested liquid protein kind of, diet without other nourish
and "we will use every regulatory ment for weeks or months."
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