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The Dallas Voice, November 30, 1984
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lasts for a week or two. Do you have any
suggestions?
Karen
Dear Karen,
Perhaps these suggestions can help you
to help your friend.
1) Learn how to take care of yourself.
Cal! Al-Anon at 487-7767. Al-Anon is
for individuals who intend to help people
with their alcoholism but instead enable
those individuals to maintain their addic-
tion to alcoholism. Through Al-Anon,
you will learn about yourself in relation-
ship to alcoholics as well as ways to be
effective in dealing with the problem sur-
Medical Briefs
Drug Helps AIDS Victims
A drug used to treat African sleeping sickness has lowered fevers and cleared the
lungs of six AIDS victims suffering from the often-fatal Pneumocystis carinii pneu-
monia, doctors have reported.
Researchers said in the Western Journal of Medicine that the men all showed
dramatic improvement after treatment with the drug DFMO. However, four of the
six men have since died of complications or a recurrence of the pneumonia.
Heterosexuals Contract AIDS
Two heterosexual men in San Francisco have contracted AIDS after apparently
having sex with women who were intravenous drug users, the city Department of
Public Health reports.
Intravenous drug users of both sexes, along with sexually active homosexual men
and Haitians, are at the greatest risk of contracting AIDS.
Dr. Dean Echenberg, director of the health department’s Bureau of Communica-
ble Diseases, said seven heterosexuals have contracted AIDS in the past year and five
of those had a history of intravenous drug use.
Two others apparently caught the disease through sexual contact with two drug-
using women, he said. Only two other such cases have been found in the United
States, although male drug users have been known to infect female sex partners.
Investigators have been unable to find the women who may have been the AIDS
carriers in the two San Francisco cases.
Of the estimated 800 AIDS patients in San Francisco, 98 percent are homosexual
men.
Baby Gets AIDS from Parents
An infant apparently contracted AIDS from his mother, who has an AIDS-related
virus passed on to her by her hemophiliac husband, the national Centers for Disease
Control in Atlanta said.
Officials said the 6-month-old boy of a Pennsylvania couple got the disease either
while he was a fetus or through breast milk from his mother, the Pittsburg Post-
Gazette has reported. It is believed to be the first case in the nation in which a child
has contracted AIDS from a hemophiliac parent.
Meanwhile, a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine says that
otherwise healthy drug-abusing mothers have passed AIDS to their babies.
The finding supports the theory that carriers of the suspected AIDS virus can pass
it on to others even though they have no symptoms.
Doctors say people with ahtibodies to the virus may not be safe.
“This is probably the only virus know to man or animal that antibody is not
protective against,” a researcher said.
rounding the alcoholic and those who
care for him.
2) Insist that your friend attend the
Lambda chapter of Alcoholics Anon-
ymous. The group meets several limes
daily seven days a week.
3) Have your friend call the Oak Lawn
Counseling Center to set up counseling.
The number is 351-1502.
4) Always keep this phrase in mind.
" You can neither create nor solve the
problems of an alcoholic. " The best you
can do is show him where to get help.
The rest is up to him.
Howie
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Ritz, Don. Dallas Voice (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 30, Ed. 1 Friday, November 30, 1984, newspaper, November 30, 1984; Dallas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth615836/m1/13/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.