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- From: tms@cs.umd.edu (Tom Swiss (not Swift, not Suiss, Swiss!))
- Newsgroups: rec.martial-arts
- Subject: Re: Finishing techniques
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- Date: 25 Dec 92 21:43:10 GMT
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- burdickd@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Dakin Burdick) writes:
- >
- >>> As a matter of fact, I know a Hapkido instructor who successfully
- >>>gained control of and pinned a PCP'ed assailant for about 15 minutes, until
- >>>the police came. He claims that while the guy had lots of strength, it was very
- >>>"shallow", and *extremely* easy to manipulate him.
- >
- >Now THIS is really interesting. I've never heard about a similar
- >incident. Can you give us details? How much did each person weigh?
- >Was either already injured? How long had PCP-madman been running
- >amok? What control was used?
-
- I'd like to point out that the idea that PCP causes violence is
- mostly urban folklore. From _Drug Abuse and Drug Abuse Research_, an
- annual report to congress by the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human
- Services, pg. 153. (1991):
-
- "There are two aspects to phencyclidine (PCP) intoxication that
- have warranted particular attention by the general public, as well
- as by law-enforcement and clinical personnel. Both aspects concern
- the relationship between phencyclidine abuse and aggressive
- behavior. There are reports of increased aggressiveness and
- 'super-human' strength that develop in some people who take
- phencyclidine.
-
- Recent studies, including those of men arrested for criminal
- activity in Washington D.C. and New York City (Wish 1986) and
- evaluations of published clinical reports of phencyclidine
- intoxication (Brecher et al. 1988), indicate that if
- phencyclidine induces violent, criminal behavior, it does so only
- extremely infrequently.
-
- Although Wish (1986) noted that most men who had urines positive
- for phencyclidine were younger than those who had taken no drugs
- or other drugs, their crimes were likely to be less aggressive
- than the crimes of those who had not taken phencyclidine.
- Khajawall et al. (1982) found no difference in the behavior of
- clients admitted for phencyclidine detoxification and those
- admitted for opioid detoxification. Thus, phencylidine-induced
- aggression appears to be a rare phenomenon, if it occurs at all."
-
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