Med Center drug therapy unique
by Bill Smitherman
What has been deseribed as
one of the most unique drug
treatment programs in
existence was begun recently at
the NU Medical Center in
Omaha.
Nation's walkers
helps poverty
Throughout the United
States during the past several
years people have
demonstrated their concern for
the Walk for Development. In
this project people of all ages
become involved in a campaign
against the causes of domestic
and international poverty.
The Lincoln Walk for
Development has been
organized locally as a fund
raising project in an effort to
help overcome many of the
problems related to poverty.
Dennis Demmel,
coordinator for the Lincoln
Walk, said next year's walk is
being planned for May. The
Walk for Development
ommittee is now in the process
of recruiting students to
organize the walk and compile
project reports.
Through the Walk for
Development, citizens and
students organize to publicize
and administrate the walk
project. Committees select
recipient agencies, obtain
solicitation and walk permits
and recruit walkers.
Each walker is responsible
for soliciting his own sponsors,
each of whom pledges to
contribute an amount of
money for every mile that is
completed by the walker.
The money collected is
divided according to
specifications of the American
Freedom from Hunger
Foundation, sponsor of the
Walk for Development. The
Lincoln Walk is lending
support to two major local
projects and one symbolic
domestic project.
The goal of the Walk for
Development is "to teach
people that steadfast support
of global development is
absoultely fundamental to our
national interest," according to
Demmel.
Organizers of the 1972 Walk
are meeting Tuesdays at 8:30
p.m. in the Nebraska Union.
All are welcome. For more
information call 435-7486 or
435-2961.
Vet students
receive awards
Five University of Nebraska
students of veterinary medicine
have been awarded $500 from
a fund provided by poet singer
Rod McKuen.
Those receiving the
scholarships are Donald N.
Andrews, llolbrook; Charles L.
Martin, Lexington; Daryt G.
Meyer, Sidney; Terry W.
Schukei, Kencsaw; and Guy L.
Tidgeon, Julesburg, Colo.
McKuen made the initial
contribution for the
scholarships in support of
studies in veterinary medicine
as part of his personal program
to encourage young people to
enter the field of veterinary
medicine. v.
Dr. James G. L. Williams,
director of the ten-bed center,
said the program includes
treatment, research and
training.
WILLIAMS said that one of
the keys to the center's
therapy program is a team
approach. There are several
people working with patients
and a counselor is on hand at
all times, he said.
Patients are invited to be
part of the center team and
take part in research, he said.
"Drug patients often have a
low self-esteem," Williams said.
"If a patient can feel he is a
member of a team doing
important research it can
improve his self-esteem. This is
a form of therapy."
TREATMENTS vary
according to the needs and
desires of the patient, Williams
said. Group therapy, individual
therapy and substitive
programs such as methadone
maintenance are among
treatments available to
patients.
"One of the things we want
to do is approach therapy from
an intensive point of view," he
said. 'The treatment is usually
intense and thus lasts for
shorter periods."
WILLIAMS said the center
is also developing a new
approach to detoxification and
withdrawal.
"We are approaching the
problem with precision," he
said. The center is doing
extensive physiological
monitoring of patients during
these periods to determine
their physical condition and
what treatment they need.
The staff of 25 includes 12
assistant counselors, mostly in
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their late teens and early
twenties with a wide variety of
backgrounds. Williams said the
counselors were carefully
selected from a number of
applicants.
WILLIAMS said that proper
staffing is important in the
program, don't believe in
the simple behavioral approach
to drug problems," he said.
"We care for our patients as
individuals."
All of the patients in the
center are voluntary. The doors
of the ward are locked so that
outsiders can't enter, but
patients are not locked in.
Williams said there is no sense
of confinement.
'The method seems to be
working," he said. "Patients
are really feeling they are part
of the team and are
enthusiastic about the
program."
THE CENTER IS also
involved in team efforts with
community organizations and
services concerned with drug
problems. Patients are referred
to the center from these
organizations.
They are also encouraged to
keep in contact with the
referring agency and the center
after they are discharged.
"You can't just throw a
drug patient back into the
same environment when he
leaves the center," Williams
said. 'These people need
support and we try to see they
get it."
THE CENTER is also open
to individuals who are seeking
treatment, Williams said. The
center's phone in manned 24
hours a day and anyone who
needs help can call or come in,
he said. The number in Omaha
is 541-4870.
Charges at the center are on
a sliding scale, Williams said.
"No one will be charged
anything he feels he can't
afford. We are here to help
people."
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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1971
THE DAILY NEB RASKAN
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