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Holding up the book Dope, Inc. at a Frankfurt meeting is Italian coalition
member Paolo Vitali, flanked on the right by West German ADC founders Drs.
Rolf Pauls and Juergen Spahn. Banner reads: Toward an International Anti-
Drug Coalition.
many, was printed in regional papers
all over the Federal Republic.
Dr. Rolf Pauls, an initiator and
chairman of the board of the West
German ADC, was invited to participate
in the Cologne regional
television program "Here and
Now" to explain the principles of
the ADC. Bavarian regional television
also broadcast a very positive
program on the Munich ADC
meeting, where Dr. von Clarmann,
a toxologist from the Klinik Rechst
der Isar, and Herr Kruetsch of the
Munich Druggists' Association
spoke.
Happily, the research results of
Dr. Nahas, which had been suppressed
at the so-called Professional
Meeting of the German Society
on Addiction and Therapy, in
Nuremburg in October 1979, were
given broad circulation by the
medical professional journal Medical
Tribune.
Then well-known newspapers
like Die Zeit, a large-circulation
weekly published in Hamburg, the
conservative daily Die Welt and a
whole series of regional newspapers
republished Dr. Nahas's results
from Medical Tribune. Even
publications that generally go out
of their way to justify drug consumption
such as the German-language
edition of Psychology Today,
or the leftist Tageszeitung,
were impressed enough by this
new research to publish the results
also.
Slanders
Because of its uncompromising
stand against all drugs, the ADC
in the Federal Republic came under
fire from the "pot" lobby even
before its official founding convention.
The Frankfurter Rundschau,
a notorious liberal paper, denounced
the ADC as a "mere"
front for the European Labor Party,
which was described as sectarian
and not be be taken seriously.
This so-called argument was employed
to pressure supporters, and
forced Herr Moog from the Association
Shelter, a parents' and lawyers'
association in Frankfurt
which had been trying on a limited
basis to beat down the drug problem
for years, to withdraw his
support from the ADC.
Weeks later, the same line of the
drug lobby came out in the Wiesbadener
Kurier, gleaned fromsources
in the Protestant Church
in Germany. This slanderous sheet
went so far as to indirectly accuse
the ADC of being "communist," in
an effort to frighten conservatives
from collaborating with the ADC.
The throwaway sheet Blitztip
from Frankfurt went at its attack
on the coalition from the other end
of the spectrum, attempting to imply
that the ADC had a "National-
Socialist" tendency.
Since the ADC also wants to
prevent drug addition as broadly
as possible, ADC representatives
addressed numerous meetings in
schools, youth centers, etc. Jeffrey
Steinberg of the U.S. National
Anti-Drug Coalition participated
in such meetings during a ten-day
tour of Italy, France, and the Federal
Republic. In Milan he reported
to over 600 high school students on
the drug-scene in the United
States.
Dr. Pauls spoke before 300 nurses
and hospital personnel at the
University of Mainz on how to
build a strong ^'.litical lobby to get
the explosive urug problem under
control. On a recent trip to the
United States, physician Juergen
Spahn had the opportunity to address
high schools, elementary
schools, and to participate in the
Anti-Drug Coalition's intervention
into the New Hampshire presidential
primary campaign, where he
reported on the work of the coalition
in Europe.
June 1980 / War on Drugs 27