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PAGE 6*-The Georgia Bulletin, October 23,1980
Host families are
needed to supply board
and room and lots of
family love to a foreign
exchange student.
Children ages 12-16 attend
school with your children.
Guatemalan and El
Salvador students will
arrive Nov. 6 and stay
until Jan. 8. Students from
Costa Rica arrive Dec. 2 -
Feb. 5. For more
information, or if you are
interested in allowing your
child to be an exchange
student to these countries,
please call Joan Lucas,
9 5 3-3946, Atlanta
Intercambio Delegate.
St. Joseph’s Parish will
hold it’s annual
OKTOBERFEST on Sat.,’
Oct. 25 from 1-6 p.m. on
the parish grounds, 81
Lacy St., Marietta. Music,
a pie baking contest and
auction, a “Gong Show,”
and face painting are some
of the planned events.
There will also be plenty
of delicious German
dishes. Rain or shine -
everyone is invited!
Leo J. Zuber of
Decatur needs to locate
back issues of the
BULLETIN for the years
1944-1960. Anyone with
copies of the BULLETIN
for any part of that time is
invited to contact Mr.
Zuber at 2332 North
Decatur Rd., Decatur, Ga.
30033 (636-2835).
John W. Gardner,
founder of the citizens’
lobby, Common Cause, is
this week’s guest on
CHRISTOPHER
CLOSEUP at 6 a.m. on
-Wed., Oct. 29 on WSB-TV
(ch. 2).
SENIOR CITIZENS
who meet daily at St.
Philip Benizi Church in
Jonesboro are in need of
volunteers to help with
crafts, quilting, ceramics,
Synod-
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for better pastoral care for
divorced and remarried
persons and possibly for
further study of some
difficult situations to see
whether church practice
can be adapted.
— A reminder of the
essential elements in the
rite of matrimony, but
within that framework a
recognition of the need to
adapt the rite to different
cultural situations.
- A “charter of family
rights’’ outlining
fundamental rights such as
freedom of choice in
education of children and
freedom to decide family
size.
- The family as subject
and object of evangelizat-
ion and religious
education.
-- Support for
education in sexuality,
adequate marriage
preparation, small
Christian communities,
family-to-family ministries
and other support systems
for family life.
-- Support for
responsible parenthood,
free of government or
other controls, and for
natural family planning.
etc. Donations of baby
food jars and broomsticks
would be appreciated at
this time. Contact Janell
(471-3549).
movie made for
on ""t h e d N B C
network, Channel 11
in Atlanta, on
Monday October 27
at 9:00 p.m. Ken
Howard star of “The
White Shadow” will
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The Catholic Alumni
Club of Atlanta, which is
open to all single Catholics
over 21, will meet at
Studebaker’s in Buckhead
(across from Billy’s) on
Oct. 24 at 8 p.m. For
further information call
Donna at (449-1489). The
Alumni Club is also having
a HALLOWEEN PARTY
on Fri., Oct. 31 at 8 p.m.
For directions and details
call Steve (458-8188).
The Second Annual
Georgia Conference on
Adoption is presenting a-
program on BUILDING
FAMILIES Oct. 31 - Nov.
1 at the Urban Life Center
of Ga. State Univ. in
Atlanta. For further
information on
registration and workshop
sessions contact Ms.
Theresa Bowen, 2587
Flagstone Dr., S. E.,
Atlanta, 30316,
(404-241-3663).
- Special concern for
families facing special
difficulties, such as
refugees, migrant families
and the poor.
-- Opposition to
infringements on family
life from outside sources
such as governments,
economic systems, or
anti-life and anti-family
philosophies.
The only morning
activity of Oct. 20 that
was reported in substance
to the press was a report
to the synod by Cardinal
Silvio Oddi, prefect of the
Congregation for the
Clergy.
Cardinal Oddi, whose
congregation is also
responsible for catechetics,
emphasized that “there is
no structure more
immediate than the family
as regards catechesis
(religious training) of
children and young
people.”
He called for “a clear
and complete theology of
the family” as the basis of
a wide-ranging, intensive
program of pastoral action
in favor of the family.
Cardinal Oddi
suggested:
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BILL CASON
DeKalb School Board
District 1
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PAID POL. ADV. - PAID BY CANDIDATE
Who are the
Daughters of Charity?
They are Sisters consecrated to
God and serving the poor in:
Hospitals - Schools - Home Care
Programs - Parish Visiting - Social
Services - Child Care Centers -
Adoption Services - Maternity
Nursing - Care of Aged - Foreign
Missions.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION WRITE:
Sister Miriam
St. Mary’s School
405 E. Seventh St.
Rome, Ga. 30161
Free workshops for
DIVORCED AND
WIDOWED HOMEMAK
ERS to become financially
self supporting begin Nov.
10 at 4191 Northside Dr.
Learn job hunting
techniques, money
management and career
exploration. Register by
calling Discovery, Atlanta
Area Technical School,
758-9451, ext. 230 or
218.
NATUAL FAMILY
PLANNING CLASSES on
the Sy mpto-Thermal
Method will begin Oct. 26
at 7:30 p.m. at St. Thomas
The Apostle Church in
Smyrna. For registration
or information call Mary
Ellen VanderWoude
(428-4366) or the NFP
office (881-1411).
The Marine Corps
Reserves in Dobbins are
now collecting repairable
toys for underpriviledged
children in the TOYS FOR
TOTS Program for
Christmas. Contact S/Sgt.
Michael Walters at work
(424-8817, ext. 2534) or
home (436-2513).
Sister Mary Jacobs,
Director of the Crisis
Pregnancy Program, wishes
to thank the women of the
Archdiocese of Atlanta for
their generosity in
donating layettes and baby
clothes for her women in
need.
H:
Women of Corpus
Christi are having their
annual CARD PARTY on
Oct. 29 from 8-11 p.m. in
the Parish Hall at Corpus
Christi Catholic Church,
600 Mountain View Dr.,
Stone Mountain. Come
play your game bridge to
monopoly. There will be
refreshments, door prizes,
table prizes and fun for all.
Tickets are $2 and will be
available at the door.
Everyone welcome!
- That the Holy See
propose a Magna Charta of
family rights for
international adoption and
that it promote worldwide
observance of an annual
Family Day.
-- That bishops’
conferences and dioceses
establish concrete pastoral
programs for family life
promotion, including
“discovering a new form
of parish responding to the
spiritual needs of persons
and the family in our time,
in a way that it would be a
‘community of families.’”
Obligatory
premarriage education in
parishes, “lasting at least a
year with weekly
meetings.”
- Training of priests
that pays more attention
to “the problems of the
family, according to an
interdisciplinary method,
not a (strictly) moralistic
one.”
NEWS VIEW
GETTING READY for their
annual bazaar “Under the Big
Top” at Our Lady of Assumption
Church in Atlanta are, 1. to r.,
Kara Stolte, Lindsey Russell, and
Kerry Stolte, who show off some
of the sale items. The bazaar,
complete with clowns, booths,
arts and crafts, children’s games
and food, will be held Oct. 25
from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at 1460
Hearst Drive, N.E. near
Oglethorpe University.
Reservations for a special 7 p.m.
gourmet supper club at $7.50 per
person can be made by calling the
OLA rectory.
Pilgrimage
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nursing degree. “I knew I
wanted this profession and
loved my student nursing
days in the hospital.”
But her introduction to
hospital halls was also an
introduction to easy drug
procurement. “My God,”
she remembers “it was,
and is, so easy to get the
stuff in hospitals. It is
there to be taken. If you
are using, you can have
it.”
Another significant step
to addiction was taken at
this point. Nancy was
working with a nurse who
was attending a patient
needing morphine. “One
day we signed out twice as
much as the patient
needed. We administered
the proper dose and took
the rest home.That night
she and I shot the stuff
with a needle as we drank
beer.” It was the first use
she made of the needle.
Taking drugs
intravenously is the fastest
high a drug user can get.
Nancy tells you, “the stuff
goes in at about 150 miles
an hour. There is instant
gratification. It rushes to
your system and
immediately grants a surge
of pleasure. Experienced
users do it no other way.
It is fast, easy and
dangerous.”
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Why did she take this
step? “The morphine
relieved the pain of the
patient. I wanted my pain
to go too. I was desperate.
I had just lost a boyfriend.
I was lonely, constantly
depressed, hating myself.”
The slide was getting
steeper.
“Funny,” remembers
Nancy, “I felt I had lots.of
problems, unsolvable
problems, but it never
occurred to me that drug
abuse was one of them.”
Nancy Ann graduated
as a registered nurse and
came to Atlanta, quickly
finding a job. “I moved in
with two other nurses and
we were all on pot, alcohol
and also valium. It was
easy to get. Most doctors
at the hospital didn’t mind
prescribing valium. It
gives you a lift when
you’re down.”
But a wonderful new
treasure chest was opening
to the drug consuming
young nurse. “Drugs are
available everywhere in
hospitals. No one keeps a
check. If drugs are
returned to the nurses’
station, after use, they are
usually just abandoned.
There’s just too much
other stuff going on to
bother.” Smiling, Nancy
Ann remembers one
incident. “I arrived in one
morning and discovered a
brown paper sack hidden
under the nurses’ station.
When I opened it I found
it full of assorted drugs.
Obviously some nurse was
gathering up leftovers for
her own use. I took them
home and, delighted with
myself, stored them away
for the future.”
Nancy found she could
sign out drugs, either along
with another nurse or
alone, without question.
“Morphine was not my
drug, it made me itchy.
Demerol, a pain killer like
morphine, was for me.
And I could get it. The
day I overdosed and was
finally hospitalized I took
500 milligrams of Demerol
in an eight hour period
while working my shift in
the hospital.” (A patient
in pain would get relief
from 50 milligrams.)
Nancy Ann now tells
other young nurses to be
careful. Drugs are too
easily available to them on
hospital units. “The
security could be better
and the supervision of
drugs should be better.
But nobody checks.”
Nancy’s good supply
brought no happiness. “I
was in constant emotional
pain and didn’t know
why.’’ Her two
roommates, scared at the
amount of intake, quit the
habit. “It was terrible,”
says Nancy. “I was alone. I
had a boyfriend. I wanted
his respect. I did not want
him to see the needle
marks. I decided to go
only on pills. Then I
decided I too would quit.”
It was almost “bottom”
now for the agonizing
young woman. She was
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Stevens
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“Stevens professed it
never would deal with the
union, so this is somewhat
of a victory,” Sister
Nieland said of the
collective bargaining
agreement among some
3,500 workers.
Whitney Stevens,
chairman and chief
executive of the textile
company, has called the
agreement a victory for
Stevens and said the
company would continue
to oppose unionization at
its other plants.
“The fact remains,”
said the Rev. William
Somplatsky-Jarman, “that
the company that pledged
to never sign a contract -
that broke every law to
avoid unionization --
signed a contract in 10
plants.
“There’s no way
Stevens can portray this as
a victory. It proves the
effectiveness of our
coalition efforts.”
Mr. Somplatsky-Jar
man, a Disciple of Christ
minister, is a spokesman
for the National
Interreligious Committee
for Justice at J.P. Stevens.
He said the committee will
meet to decide on a new
course of action.
“Obviously it’s not
going to be a boycott, but
there is an ongoing
concern. We’ll maintain
some kind of information-
al network, some
mechanism to share
information with the
people who have been so
supportive.”
He said the network
could include monitoring
progress at Stevens’ plants
as well as information
about ongoing legal cases
and organizing drives.
about to learn that she had
a problem - still no sense
of addiction - but a
problem.
“I figured I had to stop
for three days. I locked
myself in the apartment. I
was in a daze. I couldn’t
stand the loneliness. I
rushed over to Christ the
King and sat in the back,
wanting to talk to a priest
but hoping I would not
meet one. I prayed please,
please help me to feel
better, just to feel a little
better. I was miserable and
without relief. I went back
to work and immediately
signed out 50 milligrams
of Demerol. A patient
needed 25. I shot the
other 25.”
It was the end. One
nurse said the day she
overdosed “I wondered
why you were constantly
in the bathroom.” Nancy
Ann shot 500 milligrams
of Demerol, had a seizure,
fell and cracked her skull.
“Luckily it happened in
the hospital where there
was treatment,” says
Nancy. “Had it happened
at home, I would have
died.”
For four days she was
treated for a head injury
and no one mentioned
drugs to her. But the pin
holes in her wrist and arms
were noticed by the
hospital authorities. The
drug records were checked
and the forgery was
discovered. Agents from
the State Narcotics
Department were
summoned.
“It was just like the
movies,” says Nancy.
“They came into my room
and said, ‘You have the
right to remain silent.’ ‘Oh
no,’ I said, ‘I want to tell
you. I want to tell
someone. I took them. I
have been taking them for
a long time. I don’t want
to take them anymore.
But I can’t help myself. I
can’t stop.’”
The painful pilgrimage
to the bottom of the drug
pit was over.
It was one of those
agents and not a doctor or
an official at the hospital
who told her about the
special program for
doctors and nurse addicts
at Ridgeview Hospital.
Nancy called Ridgeview
and one week later was
admitted.
‘‘Going into
Ridgeview,” says Nancy,
“I thought I had a legal
problem, not an addictive
one. But slowly I learned.
The addiction is a disease.
It took me down that
nightmarish road and it
was agony all the way. I’m
recovering. And for the
rest of my life, I will be
recovering.”
Nancy Ann Nurse spent
one month in Ridgeview
and four months in a
supervised half-way house
in therapy. Last week, she
got the nod to go back out
into the great big
frightening world to seek
employment.
“I can never be a
bedside nurse again,” she
admits regretfully. “There
is just too much
temptation. But there are
other nursing jobs. I still
have legal problems. I may
have to face jail. The
medical profession is only
now beginning to
recognize the disease
concept. The legal
profession is a long way
from seeing it.”
But Nancy Ann found
something. “It couldn’t
have happened the way it
happened unless God
knew and had the help I
was asking for. I know
Him now and I know He
gave me His hand. Without
addiction I would not have
accepted this spiritual
program of recovery.”
N ancy Ann Nurse is
blessed. Lots of her
addicted friends did not
make it. She is ending one
pilgrimage and beginning
another.
Christ said to His followers:
Come with me
to a quiet place and rest awhile.
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groups at other times. Private and directed retreats are provided for individuals who request
them.
Still open up-coming dates: 24-26 - October; 31 October-2 November (Divorced and
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