The Women and Substance Abuse Project (WASA) is holding an Atlantic
conference, entitled, Healing Together, on September 13-14, 1996, at the
Universite de Moncton.

The conference will be opened Friday night by Lieutenant-Governor
Margaret Norrie McCain. The guest speaker for the conference will be
Maureen Brine, R.N.; I.C.A.D.C. Workshops will address the following
themes: Women, Work and Addictions; The Family and Addictions;
Women and Prescription Drugs; Elements of Recovery; The Link
Between Violence and Addiction; and The Link Between Sexual Abuse
and Addiction.

The conference will include a display area for organizations interested in
exhibiting relevant materials. Addiction Research Foundation will have
the new women and addictions resources (The Hidden Majority: A
guidebook on alcohol and other drug issues for counsellors who work
with women, Women's Choices Women's Voices: Healthy Drug-free
Ways of Coping, Women and Alcohol) at the conference.

For more information about the conference, contact Judith Grant, M.A.,
Conference Coordinator, 154 Queen Street, Moncton, N.B., E1C 1K8.
Telephone (506) 858-1303. A program is available.

If you would like more info about the women and addictions resources,
please contact me.

Melony Ward
Senior Marketing Coordinator

Addiction Research Foundation      tel 416/595-6558
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