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The San Antonio Register
August 12,1993
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Dr. and Mrs. Frank Bryant play host and hostess to visiting doctors and their spouses attending the NMA Convention.
Pictured are (seated) Dr. Jerline Dixon, Diane Scott, Suzanne DeCayetta, Gloria Bryant, Dorothy DeCayette, and
Dr. Brenda Davis, (standing) Andrew Dixon, Micheal Scott, Dr. Reginald DeCayette, Dr. Frank Bryant, and Dr.
William R. Davis.
Photo by Grant Martin
Panic disorder can
often lead to alcohol,
drug abuse
About three million Americans are
affected by panic disorder at some
time in their lives. Panic disorder, a
serious mental illness characterized
by repeated panic attack, is a disease
that is often misdiagnosed and
untreated, consequently it can often
disrupt the personal and professional
lives of those who suffer from it.
Yet, it is one of the most treatable of
mental illnesses, according to Dr.
Freda Lewis-Hall of the National
Institute of Mental Health.
Dr. Lewis presented new
information on the mental disorder
at this weeks NMA meeting.
People with panic disorder often
fear that they are dyjng or losing
control and one-third of panic-
disorder sufferers begin to avoid
situations where they fear an attack
may occur or where help in not
available. About 50%of panic-
disorder sufferers will have an
episode of clinical depression at some
time in their lives. Panic disorder
typically strike in young adulthood,
with the median age of onset being
24 years of age.
One of the findings that Dr Hall-
Ixwis presented to the physicians
attending the meeting was that people
who have panic disorder often turn
to alcohol and illicit drugs in an
attempt toalleviate the painful mental
and physical symptoms of their
condition. About 30% of panic-
disorder sufferers “self-medicate”
with alcohol and 17 % use drugs such
as marijuana and cocaine.
However, she pointed out,
appropriate treatment by an
experience professional reduces or
completely prevents panic attacks in
70 to 90 percent of people with panic
disorder.
People seeking treatment for panic
disorder can get medication therapy
from a psychiatrist or a pninary care
physician. C'ognitive-behavioral
therapy can be gotten from a mental
health professional.
New drugs being
developed for
diseases affecting
African-Americans
Do people of differentraces respond
differently to different medicines?
It's a subject that’s not taught in
medical schools, but William
McPhatter of the Pharmaceutical
Manufacturers Association says that
research bears that out and,
consequently, is developing
medicines that can effectively attack
these diseases in the Afri&in-
American community. African-
American consumers should be
aware, he says, that there are
differences in how different drugs
affect them and their physicians
should be aware of this, also.
Robert F. Allnutt, executive vice-
president of the Pharmaceutical
Manufacturers Association said that
a new survey by the PM A shows that
patients of the same race and sex can
react quite differently to the same
medicine and that it is now becoming
increasingly clear that racial and
ethnic factors may affect how an
individual patient responds to a
particular drug. Racial and ethnic
differences may cause patients to
metabolize drugs differently, have
different clinical responses, ai^d
experience different side effects. F6r
example, African-American atyd
white patients differ significantly in
their responses to such heart drugs as
beta-blockers, ace inhibitors, and
diuretics.
A new survey conducted by the
Pharmaceutical Manufacturers
Association (PMA) shows that 120
medicines are in development for
diseases that largely affect African-
Americans, including 28 for heart
disease, 25 for respiratory disorders,
21 for HIV/AIDS, and 20 for cancer.
Dr. Leonard Lawrence, NMA
president also stated that the use of
substitutions, a procedure which
seems to have gained some popularity
in the containment of healthcare
costs, has increased and that is not, in
many situations, in the best interests
of minority patients.
He stated that the National Medical
Association opposes any procedure
which limits access of minority
patients to the best pharmacologic
treatments available.
State Farm helps
people buy homes
State Farm Insurance is taking the
slogan, "Like a good neighbor, State
Farm is there" just a little bit farther.
The giant insurance company is
one of a group of financial service
companies supporting a new national
program to help 10,000 low and
moderate income people buy homes.
Neighborhood Reinvestment Corp.
and the NeighborWorks affordable
housing network-both affiliates of
Neighborhood Housing Services—
said the program will make about
$650 million in loans to potential
homebuyers. State Farm is contrib-
uting $10 million of this amount.
Local NeighborWroks organiza-
tions will be intermediaries between
banks and borrowers, helping to pre-
qualify potential homebuyers for
loans and to arrange financing to
reduce down payments and closing
costs and where needed, for
rehabilitatin of property.
Organizations in 20 cities are par-
ticipating initially.
Partners in the campaign include
World Savings and Loan, the Federal
Home Loan Mortgage Corp., Allstate
Insurance, Chemical Bank, Chase
Manhattan Bank, Key Bank, and -
other financial services institutions.
Matt SOSSl Attomey-at-Law
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Black woman named secretary of NOW
Karen Johnson was the only African-
American woman and one of only 14
women among the 3,000men at the U.
S. Air Force base in Thailand. The
.now retired lieutenant colonel, a
registered nurse, remembers how hard
she found it to swallow the indignities
she had to face as a one, among them
the fact that many enlisted men refused
Ia
UJ 5alutC lid.
“They’d see me on base and say,
fight hack against the racist and sexist
attacks. The word soon got out that
soldiers had better salute ho- because
“K. J. won’t play that way.”
It was while she was in Spain that
Johnson emerged as an activist with
the National Organization for Women.
In July, the 45 year old registered
nurse and retired I t. Col. was elected
NOW’s national secretary.
Raised by a single mother on welfare
Council Report
by Tracye Lynette Pryor
A fond farewell to our summer
interns Allison P. Farris, Sharon
Guajardo (UTSA) and Dannie
Johnson ( a Judson High School
Student). Councilwoman
McClendon and staff will be sorry
to see them go. “They were
exemplary district office interns,”
Jo McCall, office manager and
assistant to Councilwoman
McClendon, stated.
Councilwoman McClendon
participated in the 56th Annual
Convention of the National Funeral
Directors at the Hilton Palacio Del
Rio Hotel. The National Funeral
Directors Association was
established 59 years ago in
Chicago, Illinois, and currently has
a membership of 2500 African-
American funeral directors and
morticians.
Councilwoman McClendon
presented William Russo,
president of the Association, with
the Alcalde—the Honorary
Mayor’s certificate.
Gospel Radio 1480 presented
their 2nd annual Praise-A-Thon,
which was coordinated by
Evangelist Janice King.
Councilwoman McClendon was in
attendance to help kick off this
annual event, doing an on-air
presentation from the city to
KCHL. The Praise-A-Thon was to
raise funds to benefit the radio
station.
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Hey, Babe, what’s happening?’”—in a slum apartment in New Jersey,-She joined the Air Force as a nurse
Johnson recalls. She also remembers
the Thai “tealocks” who offered the
men a home-away-from-home wife
and mistress for as little as a dollar a
day.
In Thailand and on her next
assignment in Spain, she began to
Johnson feels she’s come a long way.
The oldest of five children, she says
that living in a violent urban ghetto
instilled a sincere desire in her to
become a productive member of her
community. She entered nursing at
the age of 17 and became a registered
during the latter part of the Vietnam
War. She excelled so that the Air
Force accepted her into their highly
selective Institute of Technology, and
from there she went to Yale to receive
a master’s degree in psychiatric
nursing.
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Cancer Society offers
free program to stop
smoking
The American Cancer Society is
offering a free stop-smoking program
for individuals who are trying to
kick the tobacco habit. The the
FreshStartclinic will begin Tuesday,
August 17, and continue each
Tuesday and Thursday through
August 26.
Each session lasts from 7-8 p. m.'’
and is held at the American Cancer
Society office at 8115 Datapoint
Drive. 43
To register, call 614-4211.
Percy Sutton makes a point as A.
C. Sutton (1) and nephew Charles
Andrews, General Manager of
KSJL, KSJL newsman Charles
Porter, and announcer Jackie Ray
Robinson listen.
The occasion was the grand
opening of the new Paradise Fu-
neral Home.
Photo by Grant Martin
'Rummage Sale |
Saturday, Aug. 14
Mamie Bryant Chapt. No. 467,
OJE.S. will sponsor a rummage and
bake sale, Saturday, August 14,10
a,m. to 4 p.m. at Prince Hall Ma-
sonic Hall, the comer of Hackberry
and Burleson Streets.
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