PEAC winners

.. PEAC winners .

individual effort-David Perelman organizational effort-APhA-CPhA student chapter, University of California, San Francisco

DAVID PERELMAN, Pharmacy '41, M.S. '53. Ow~er,

The Stadtlander Pharmacy in Penn Hills. • RESI!lES: (Churchill Borough) Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. , • UNIVERSITY ACTIVITIES: 1941 recipient of highest honors award; p6st president, Pharmacy Alumni Association; past. member, Alumni Council' member, Secondary Sc~~ls Co!Ilmittee; recipient, Marck Award; recipient, Beale Fellowship Award; recipient, Faculty Award; member, Century Oub of the Annual GlvIDg Fund. • CAREER: ~illner of .th~ Brand ~ame Retaile.r of the Year. Award, "Outstanding Pharmacy in the U.S."; general chairman .of the Pennsyivania Pha~/Ilaceutlcal ~s.soclatlon Coun~iI; JXlSt p~es.ldent an? chalC~n of speakers, A!legheny Cou~ty Pharm!lc~utical Association; member, Pennsylv,an~a and Amer.lcan Pha~maceutlcal ASSOCIation; l?eneral chauman, Pen!lsylvaOla pharmaceutical ASSOCiation Council; member, National AssoCiatIOn for Retail Druggists; member, Galen SOCiety; member, Ro Chi, honorary fraternity; member, Alpha Zeta Omega fraternity. • CIVIC ACTIVITIES: Past p.resident and founder of the S~a?yside 0t~!>er of Commerce; directo.r, Shadyside Boy's Club; member, Penn Hills Rotary; member, Penn Hills Moose; member, Fund RaISIng BUlldIDg Fund; member, Penn Hills Chamber of Commerce; active in narcotic education.

David Perelman used personal discussions, group talks, radio and television appearances, and newspaper articles and advertisements in an "honest and' intelligent presentatio n" on the problems and dangers of drug abuse.

I.

II.

Introduction A.

lack of community interest

B.

Recognition of narcotic addiction as a social disease

History A.

The past use of narcotics

B.

The Harrison NIlrcotic Act B.

1. Pharmacology of the opium derivi tives and synthetics

3. laws

gov~rning

The abusive and hallucinatory drugs

1.

2. Legal methods of obtaining narcotic drugs

2.

narcotics

IV.

Narcotic use in the ghetto and reasons for acceptability by

3.

L.S.D., Speed, Peyote, Mescaline

minori ty groups

4.

Barbi tura tes and Amphetamines

Definition of narcotic addiction

5.

A.

VI.

a. Factors involved including personal, family rela tionsh:l,ps and environment B.

Treatment and reha bili ta tion

VII.

Drugs on campus A.

Coll eg e and university policies and attitudes

B.

Atti tudes of the stUdents and reasons for experimentation

lack of research in all aspects of drug abuse A.

1. Federal program

The role of the pharmacist in the control of legal substances and h is responsibility to the community

IX.

Conclusions and recommendations A.

Screening of film for effectiveness

2. Permissiveness

B.

Education

3. Family relationship

C.

Information

D.

Adequate money for research

E.

Use of all mass media

1. Pressures

Speaking on drug abuse, Perelman called upon his own professional experience and extensive community invo/veIment to bring his message to his listeners via this speech outline. 104

VIII.

Drug abuse in suburbia Factors involved

The synthesis of marihuana and new research a. Recommendation of the National Coordinating Council

3. British system

A.

The NIMH and its grants for resear~h 1.

2. Local Torrence Hospi tal program 4. Synanon

I t is not important what the substance iso-the

important thing is "Why?"

Physical and psychological effects 1. The addict

V.

Marihuana--discussion of the a tti tudes of young people and their thinking

4. Penalties for illegal possession III.

Difference between ha bi tua tion and addiction

JoiJrl"!al of the AMERICAN PHARMACEUTICAL ASSOCIATION

F.

Involveme nt of all phases of society

G.

Close the generation gap

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As the winner of the individual effort category in the 1968 APhA Public Education Awards Competition, Perelman will receive a trophy, $500 and an expense-paid trip to the APhA annual meeting in Montreal, May 17-23, where his entry will be displayed.

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How the students organized their Drug Information Committee and where and how many programs were conducted in California is shown in the chart at the left and on the map below.

Videotape to train future student participants on the Drug Information Committee shows Stuart Loomis, one of four evening lecturers who addressed average audiences of 200 persons.

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APhA-CPhA student chapter members at the school of pharmacy, University of California at San Francisco, talk about the Drug Information Committee project that earned them the Organizational Effort category award in the 1968 APhA Public IEducation Awards Competition, which is sponsored annually through APhA by Pfizer Laboratories.

Sanford Feinglass, Marin County Schools co'ordinator of drug abuse education, discusses the .influence of mass media upon the attitudes of students toward drugs with Drug Information Committee participants.

As part of their training, University of California students heard James R. Nielsen, pharmacy administration lecturer, discuss state and federal drug laws so that they could talk intelligently about the subject to their audiences.

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marihuana for research

A

long-term program to develop its . own supply of high-quality marihuana and pure synthetic tetrahydrocannabinol has been launched by the National Institute of Mental Health. NIMH intends to develop sufficient quantities of the natural and synthetic material to conduct large-scale research in . its own laboratories and to supply independent researchers attempting to assess the effects of marihuana usage. In announcing the award of seven contracts to produce these materials, Staniey YolIes, MD, NIMH director, said that NIMH decided to embark on its own production program because current supplies of marihuana are inadequate and of such uncertain quality and potency as to render the marihuana practically useless for sophisticated research.

Marihuana now used in research comes primarily from materials confiscated by the government. Since such variables as the methods of harvesting and storage, climatic conditions during growth and the place of origin largely control the potency of the natural product, the seized material is usually of uncertain quality and potency. The seven contracts have three specific goals~to develop a large supply of marihuana to make purified' extracts suitable for research, to develop technics for production of tetrahydrocannabinols (THe) synthetically and to make sufficient quantities to meet research needs, and to develop methods of analysis and more precisely identify the chemicals in marihuana that have an effect during usage.

PEAC wi~ners (continued from page 107 )

Other PEAC entrants-all of whom receiyed a certificate of merit-were: Edwin Adler Denver, Colorado Marion S ..Crockett Bakersfield, California Maurice Goldsmith . Belmont, .Massachusetts Sami K. Hamarneh W'a shington, D.C. Murray Hyatt Plattsburgh, New York Germaine M. Hyber . Cleveland, Ohio James O. Johnson Green Bay, Wisconsin Marc F. Laventurier Eil Cerrito, California Michael Marcus and Sherman Steinburg Baltimore, Maryland Irwin Miller Houston, Texas Phillip M. Nudelman Bellevue, Washington Noel and Cynthia Parris Dorchester, Massachusetts Paul E. Shuster Chillicothe, Ohio Barbara Vadnais St. Paul, Minnesota William P. O'Brien New Orleans, Louisiana Ronald J. Pytel Pine Ridge, South Dakota Cecil Jan Tootle Savannah, Georgia Chicago Retail Druggists Association Colegio De Farmaceuticos De Puerto Rico Eastern Idaho Pharmacists Association, Idaho Falls, Idaho Fourth District Pharmaceutical Association, Tucker, Georgia Harris County Pharmaceutical Association, Houston, Texas Kappa Psi Pharmaceutical Fraternity, Beta ,C hi Chapter, Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa Kappa Psi Pharmaceutical Fraternity, Delta Beta Chapter, Southwestern State College, Weatherford, Oklahoma Northern California Pharmaceutical Association, San Francisco Pharmacy Interns, Student Health Services, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida . Phi Delta Chi Fraternity, Psi Chapter, Drake University, Des Moines SchuykiII Pharmaceutical Association, Pottsville, PennsylViania Southeast Florida Pharmaceutical Association, Miami, Florida Student Committee on Drug Abuse Education, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland Weld County Pharmacal Association, Greeley, Colorado Vol. NS9. No.3, March 1969

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