DEW Drop-In Newsletter

Irreversible Brain Damage Alert possibly linked with certain drug use practises, form of toxic spongiform leucoencephalopathy that may be associated with smoking heroin off pieces of aluminum foil, a practice called 'Chasing the Dragon'. Harm Reduction: What is it? 13 points written by the DAMS Harm Reduction Group that meets at the Centre; Article on First Nations Women and Violence; history of First Nations Residential Schools - impact, the trauma ways of addressing it, and description of Residential School Project; Newsletter Group begins; Downtown Eastside Community Play; Why Work?--an article by Larry Trunkey, Program Manager of The Job Shop, at Tradeworks Training Society; Calendar: Regular Programming: Chinese Women's Group (CWS), Computers, Creative Writing Group, Library Literacy, Literacy Workshop, French Speaking Group, Newsletter Group, Resume Workshop, Storytelling Circle, Street Nurse, Women's Voice, Arts and Crafts Workshops: Beading with Denny or Louise, Crochet with Anna, Fabric Arts with Freeda, Dreamcatchers; Evening Programming: Organizer's Training (ELP), Battered Women Support Services (BWSS), Alchol and Drug Harm Reduction Group, Music Jam, Women's Health Clinic; Horoscopes; Diabetes FAQs; Voices from the Eastside Writing Workshop; Poems - Afterwards Everything was Silent by Ilona Ferenczi, Untitled by Carol Valliers, Trucking by Linda Boyle, Primitive Beginnings: a cartoon storyboard by Almee Rowley.