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November 9, 1980

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Vancouver. (Elisworth Dickson photos)

Drug use by adolescents
concerns WV school board

Information meeting held for parents

By OLGA RUSKIN
Drug and alcohol use
is extending to in-
creasingly younger
students, grade seven
and eight West Van
parents were warned
recently at a Parent
information meeting at
Westcot Elementary.

The mocting. attended by
approaimately 150 parcats of

giade seven and eight
students. is) one of three
sponsored by a West Van

School — board
under Peter Cotton
Coordinator of Gloncagles
Community School, looking
into the problem of
adolescent drug and alcohol

commiuttec

use and what can be done

about it

Two further information
meetings are to be held in
other parts of West) Van
couver These are oon
Wednesday, November 12

7 3) pm at Pauline Johnson
and Thursday November
27, 7 30 pm and Gilencagles

Community Elementary

Sc hool

In a letter to parents of
grade seven and cight
students superintendent of

Schools kd Carlin explains

how the commiltec was set

up “For some time the
Board of School Trustees
has shared a community
concern regarding — the

problem of drug and alcohol
use by youth at increasingly

younger ages

The meetings are designed
to assist parents in-oun
derstanding current trends in
alcohol and = drug abuse
among young people, signs
symptoms and cffects of
individual drugs, adolescent
stresses and = pressures
leading students to drug and
alcohol abuse.
resources and

community
the parents

role in prevention of

such
abuse
Parents at the end of a
meeting are asked to answer
a questionnaire which asks if
they feel schools should be
providing

formation

factual in

regarding the

known effects of the most
frequently abused
such as martyuans

drugs
and

alcohol at the grade six and
seven level

“We necd to know
parents what they would like
done about drug and alcohol
education in the schools,”
Cotton told parents. “and
then we hope to come up
with definite suggestions lo
present to the school board ”

At the meeting parcnts
saw ai video presentabon
called “Reading. Riting, and
“Reefer” which stressed that
cancer
are
manjuana
manjuana

known causing

present in
Smoking _ five
“points” 1s the
same as smoking five packs
of cigarettes
told

agents

Parents were

that the

new and

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