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comprehensive $137, = Community Action.
million alcohol.and drug program. - Program provides funding for quali-
~ Alcohol and drug. abuse is a serious - fied non-profit community groups —
Problem in BritishColumbia,  —~-_ wanting to take action.
~ Andits getting worse. - - > $96 mil lion fort treatment and care.
Ignoring the problem: won't make | To help individuals with alcohol .
it go away. That's why its up to all of - and drug problems get effective treat-,
we todowhatwecantohelp. - . . mentandcare,a comprehensive.
_. For our own part, the government | network of treatment servicesand. —_
ods already accelerating its efforts to - . ‘facilities is now in place throughout the: : :
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~~ Over the next three years youll - the effectiveness of specific prevention
seea major Health Care Curriculum _ and treatment techniques, monitor.
Support initiative, a specialeduca- —_, trends in the province and evaluate
tional effort in all our primary schools how our programs are working
“anda carefully-targeted awareness Obviously, we can’t solve the prob-
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if we're willing totry

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‘The Honourable Lyall Hanson, Minister

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