Oct. 14, 1981

Tel. "985-2131

THANKSGIVING FEAST was held at Queensbury Elementary on Friday. The kids brought their own food for the

feast to help them realize the satisfaction of sharing. Pictured above is Mrs. Tong, a
stedents, kindergarten to Grade 7. (Eisworth Dickson photo)

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THE TASK FORCE on
Older Women in
British Columbia,
sponsored by the
Women's Rights
Committee of the New
Democratic Party of
B.C., has released a
summary of finilings
following hearings in
nine different B.C.
centres.

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“In its travels throughout
the province, the Task Force
was impressed by the fact
that the same problems are
being experienced by older
women wherever they may
live,” stated the report.

“Women in every region
spoke movingly about their
feclings of loneliness,
rejection and isolatiion, as
well as about the concrete
difficulties caused by
poverty, sexism and

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ageism.”

The most critical problem
uncovered by the = Task
Force was the lack of
adequate and secure in-
comes for oldér women.
according to the report.

On average, women earn
59 per cent of what men
earn. Only 20 per cent of
reared women who have

opportunities tend to be non-
existent for many older
women lacking a history of
continuous paid em-
ployment. Often, welfare is
the only source of income.

Another area of concern is
health.

Older women frequently
note negative stereotyping
by doctors which leads to

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TRAVEL

PRESCRIPTION ADDICTS

COPING WITH stress
the chemical way can
turn you into a drug
addict the legal way.
Chris Kitteringham, a
social worker with the
Alternative Program
for the Prevention of
Chemical Dependen-
cies, spoke at the North
Shore Women’s Centre
‘Women’s Night’
recently about’ the
prevention of drug and
chemical dependency
— particularly the use
of prescription drugs by
women.

Kitteringham’s special
interest is drug dependency
in women. In her opening
remarks she explained that,
“statistically, women and the
elderly receive the most drug
prescriptions in our society.”
Kitteringham went on to
point out that often a women
will have been placed on a
tranquilizer at one point in
her life because it was neces-
sary at that time. In many

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cases, however, the original
problem that necessitated
the “prescription disappears
but the patient has become
reliant on the tranquilizer in
order to cope ith other
aspects of her life.

Although drug depen-
dency is an easy habit to
acquire it is frequently a
difficult one to arrest. One
of the difficulties is that
there is a stigma attached to
addiction and people who
feel they should seek help
are often afraid of identi-
fication. For that reason the
Alternatives program meets
with individuals on a one-to-
one counselling basis.

Alternatives is a non-
profit society which operates
an out-patient treatment
program to assist individuals
who have developed
problems associated with the.
misuse of alcohol and/or
other drugs. The Alterna-
tives Program provides
services exclusively to the
North Shore community.

Alternatives can be
reached at 892A Marine
Drive, North Vancouver,
B.C. V7P IR9 or telephone
984-0255.

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