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TEENS . (Continued from page I) now. They talked to my parents, and decided I'd be kicked out wherever I went if I wanted to." "I went home and the first day I got back, I went to the gas station and saw a dealer that I knew. And ne asked me if I would like to buy No money? some pot. And I said "No"and he said, want.' to buy and I said "No Robert said his parents' disaj resulted after he failed at Love! intment and hurt feelings which >n and Forest, caused him to raise the will power to go straight. Almost miraculi to Alcoholics Anonymous meetings and meeting with Student Assistance counselors. "I am convinced now, deep down, that I'm chemically addicted," Robert said. "I'm home now and things have been going okay. There are still rough'spots, but I care what people think of me now. I want respect from people and I still have guilt for the things I've done." SUSAN , .. . v Like Robert, Susan got turned on to "weed" in seventh grade. A junior in high school, she found that marijuana helped calm her when problems arose. If she was feeling down, she reached for a joint and eiyoyed the euphoric effect mat drowned out the real world. Pot, she said, was her "best friend. 'K But Susan's "friend" soon turned on her. The high she felt lost its original strength and she had to smoke more and more pot to get the effect she wanted. She tried cocaine for awhile, but it was too ex­ pensive. In addition, the problems she was trying to block out with drugs became worse as a result of her habit. "It started to breakdown the relationships," Susan said."It made me paranoid. I talked a mile-a-minute around my parents and every time they asked (about her drug use), I felt like I could handle it." Susan's mother also felt the pain inflicted by her daughter's ad­ diction. "When you find out, you're so scared...and you deny it," she said. "They just say it's true (that they are not using) and you play along and say, okay, it's true." "I didn't like myself,'L Susan said. "I was avoiding all these i. I knew that I was smoking too much and I denied and said I quit, even though I had tried before." "The worst times were what we call your bottoms. My worst times..! was just a wreck getting high 10 to 20 times a day., just really bad...burned out all the time...feeling guilty and grimy all the time. I don't know...just the worst." For Susan, the day of reckoning arrived when one of her teachers took her to the school psychologist, where she was referred to a counselor who recommended that she go to a treatment center. Although, at the time, Susan was filled with hate towards the teacher who identified her, she is now very appreciative. "We're friends now," Susan said. "She tola on me, and that was the greatest thing she could have done fore me because I was always stoned in her class and got bad grades...not that my grades are mat great now, but I'm trying." Susan lived in the treatment center for six weeks. And although she said, "it didn't come easy," this "awakening" has started a terrific change in her and her family's life. "My daughter and I get along very well now," Susan's mother said. "We've both been through hell. We' and growing. The fight against addiction is not over for Robert and Susan. They still must consistently sit through AA meetings, ignore the offers of J*a^^3MPLAWIDEALER-HERALD^RIDA^JflARCIM^983 ough hell, we've both done some learning drugs from other users and resist that craving they have to get high. "When you feel like getting high, there's a lot of things you can do," Susan said. "You can call a mend, you can go to meetings, you SHOW SOMEONE YOU CARE... 10% OFF ALL AQUAMARINE JEWELRY \ ( , H \ M W i l \ t . . , MARCH'S HIliTIMONK Name means "sea water" from Latin (marine and aqua) which is a true description of its color. It is generally thought to be a feminine stone, primarily because of its gentle, light blue color. 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And I'm going to win. The pink bet slip I used to pick my winning numbers even said so in a rather round about way. "Everyone's a winner!" the card boldly exclaims. The card is printed by the Illinois State Lottery Division, and I'm certain the Lottery folks wouldn't kid about something like that. The exclamation point is their's, not mine. .. I've been aware of the Illinois State Lottery since its in­ ception; I've become more aware since the Lotto game was Dick Peterson 4 added, and even more now that my wife plays Lotto. That's the game in which everyone's a winner! Lotto offers lucrative prizes in the form of $6 million annuities. From what I garner, winners are set for life financially. The Lottery is quite popular, according to news accounts being that many people want to be financially secure. I doubt there is anyone in Illinois who doesn't know someone near dear to them who doesn't .play the Lottery. More people know what the Lottery is than who the governor is, and he's been around forever. However, I have never played it. The odds of winning are incredibly, almost criminally, slim. Your money is more wisely spent at the parimutual tracks or on junkets to an after-hours establishment in Lincolnwood. But that's gambling, and gambling is a sin for those of high moral fiber. With the race tracks and the betting lines in the newspapers -- I'll bet there are a lot of office pools, too - I can only assume the moral character of Illinoisians is somewhat jaded. ^ThelgtterjJioweveM^erjleg^^^yunbj^urve ̂ >le state government. The Lottery uses words like bet, odds, pool and parimutual in its literature, but it doesn't go so far as to call the game gambling. Gamblers spend their afterlife in hell. Lottery players wind up in purgatory with the other penny-ante sinners. Maybe not; they say Lottery funds benefit old people and school kids. That's noble, if not true. Being that my vices include drinking, smoking, swearing and spitting, playing the Lottery may as well be another one. At least I only have to play it once. I vow to never play again. I've seen what habitual Lottery playing can do to people. My wife, a kindergarten teacher no less, plays Lotto every week. At first, she hid her tickets because she knew I would be offended by gambling taking place under our roof. Then she said she only played a dollar a week. Now, it's $3. Once she asked me to drive on nearly impassable roads to buy a ticket or three. Well, she doesn't spit, she rarely swears and only smokes to spite me, so, what the heck, I thought, she should have her jollies, too. Each week when she doesn't win, a mild case of depression follows. It took several minutes and some help for the clerk to figure out how to play Lotto, a very simple game once you understand it. First of all, there are only 44 numbers to play; I thought the selection was limitless. Trie numbers are 01 through 44, and the numbers are always in ascending order. You can't start with a 44, then me. I was going to play my which would be 01-05-58-02-11- grid, and if there were, you can't play the same number twice. And being that the numbers are in ascending order, the numbers would look nothing like I wanted. ' So I ended up with 01-02-05-08-11-27. The 08 represents 58, and because I couldn't play my proxy 58 again, I picked 27. You also have to play two sets of numbers, which I didn't realize. I had no idea what to select, so I closed my eyes and dropped my pen on the grid, filling in the corresponding numbers. When I began to think that people were watching me, I scratched in the 21 and 44 - for no reason at all. All I have to do now is watch TV Saturday night to see my numbers be drawn. Then I'll count the money. And tell my boss I'll be taking a week off. (Snigger. Snigger.) Woman found in river is Linda L. White can read AA literature...." They are also still re-establishing themselves in school by making new friends and getting involved in other activities. Although Robert is still suspended from playing sports, he said he has been given permission to manage the track team. Susan is"focusing her energy on art and her new "great group of friends." However, despite their early success, both adolescents now must live with the knowledge that they could face the same terrible or­ deal tomorrow. "I can't say that I'll never do it (use drugs) again," Robert said, can't say that.", m *, • That scares irt*. t see a lot of people who were ip treatment who are using nbw. But I manage. I don't know how, but I do. But I can't bother with these people because it takes a lot for me to stay straight. I care. I care a lot. But I can't bother with them." Susan agrees with Robert that an addict can not predict his or her future, but she still advises other teen addicts to take the big step towards sobriety. "They tell us when we get there (the treatment center) that about one-out-of-ten of us is going to make it," she said. "But if there's somebody going into treatment and they don't want to go...it's like Meleta (Ward, a Student Assistance counselor) told us all the time - it gets better every day. There's alot of hurt. But it gets better every day." By Joe King PUindealer-Herald News Service A body found in the Fox River Wednesday was positively iden­ tified Thursday as that of Linda L. White, an Island Lake Woman who disappeared on Dec. 21. Lake County Coroner Barbara Richardson, whose office per­ formed the autopsy on the body Thursday morning, said White died as the result of a single blow to the right temple area of the head which caused a severe skull fracture and cerebral contusion. According Richardson, all evidence from the autopsy Thurs­ day morning indicated the body was that of White. However dental records had to be brought in from a clinic in Chicago to make a positive iden­ tification. Thursday afternoon | Oden- tologists Carl Hagstrom and Russell Schnieder used the dental records to positively identify the body. Despite being in the icy waters of the Fox River, the body had deteriorated to such a state that family members were unable to identify the copse as that of White. Richardson said the tentative identification made early in the day was based largely on the description of White given to police, and on some distinctive jewelry found on the body. Richardson said the jewelry, especially a ring that was known to have belonged to White's mother, strongly indicated that the body could have been that of White. "We couldn't say for sure though, any one can pick up a ring and wear it," said Richardson. Late Thursday afternoon the positive identification was made. White's body was discovered in the Fox River just east of Cary Wednesday morning. The body was found floating, naked, face down in the water. White disappeared Dec. 21 on her way home from a party. Her car was found Dec. 24 on the out­ skirts of Island Lake, containing some of her blood-stained clothing. Two extensive searches for the woman were conducted, utilizing nearly 100 volunteer searches and an I l l ino is Depar tment of Transpor ta t ion he l icopter . Nei ther search turned up anything. Police have been treating the case as a homicide because of the circumstances surrounding the situation. IPKp! \ SENSI "BUNKY" FELLMETH SANDAN 3-TIME NATIONAL CHAMPION Learn to defend yourself and have fun at the same time through the Olympic Sport of Judo! WHERE: 804 MILL ST. McHENRY Behind Taylormade Hdqtrs. 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