Drug Use, Abuse Series Produced By Staff At U-M

A new University Televisión Center - produced 15 - program series on drug use and abuse under the title "Take as Directed" will begin at noon Sunday on Channel 4, Detroit, with a program entitled "A Theft of Fire." Produced by Lee M. (Mack) Woodruff Jr., and directed by George M. (Marshall) Franke of the U-M TV Center staff, the series covers all phases of our modern "drug culture" society f rom the benefits of the "miraele" life-saving drugs to dope addiction and even "the pill." In the opening program, Dr. Robert A. Green, professor of internal medicine and associate dean at the U-M Medical School, traces the origin and use of drugs from ancient times to what he call's today's "drughappy" society. Dr. Henry H. Swain, professor of pharmacology in the M e d i c a 1 S c h o o 1 , and Dr. Charles N. Innis, U-M instructor in pediatrics and clinical pharmacologist, will join Dr. Green on the second program which will explore the relationship of drugs to life processes. In the third program, Drs. Green and Swain will review the discovery of the curative "miracle" drugs and compare them to the bulk of drugs which alleyiate pain or control symptoms. Dr. Robert B. Jaffe, U-M professor of obstetrics and. gynecology and head of the Reproduc t i v e Endocrinology Program, will join Dr. Green in a discussion of birth control pills and the controversial issue of side and long-term effects in the fourth program. Dr. Park W. Willis III, U-M professor of internal medicine and director of the División of Cardiology, will join Drs. Green and Swain in a discussion of drugs used in controlling heart disease on the fifth program. Other U-M faculty members, to be announced, will appear on the remaining programs which are now in the process of developmenti The sixth program will deal with the use of drugs in treatment of schizophrenia ; the seventh will feature drug experts f r o m Ann Arbor's Parke-Davis Research Laboratories and Kalamazoe's Upjohn drug company in a discussion of the pharmaceutical industry.