Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 7, 1994, Winnipeg, Manitoba Editor David 6977042 focus Winnipeg free press a 7 Friday january medication benefits Many on behalf of the society for depression and Mani de pression of i am writing to respond to your editorial of december and your editorialists comments on the antidepressant medication or your editorial reflects an appalling Lack of information and knowl Edge on this and the uses for which it is As a you Are maligning the effects a medication that has been a major Benefit to tens of thousands of and More trivializing the seriousness of the disorders for which the medications Are the Best that can be said for your editorialist is that he seriously mis read the available information on this prozac is used to treat biochemical brain disorders known As affective or depressive dior these Are extremely common and widespread affecting at least Manitoban each they have an enormous effect on Manitoba costing this province at least million Annu ally in direct and indirect medical and social across the annual toll is More than in lives lost As a direct result of these disorders the Cost is More than people each with More than 100 dying in As prozac has been found to be useful in the treatment of a variety of other psychiatric Dis ranging from obsessive compulsive disorder to eating dior prozac was not introduced to alter specific behaviour patterns in rather it is As Are most antidepressant to Aid in the formation and retention of certain neurotransmitters in the in a similar fashion to insulin and restoring the body balance of these chemicals usually brings with it restored health and a stability of in this can be a Means to combat the devastating emotional and physical effects that go with the of Behaviours that people assume Are merely personal peculiarities Are in fact related to their by treating these accompanying factors Are improved or this is totally at variance with the idea of using prozac As some sort of to pacify people and make them if prozac tends to energize by Restor ing them to their Normal Lead ing to increased activities and much less i have met and interviewed hundreds of Manitoban who have been prescribed prozac Over the past Sev eral in All that i have yet to meet a single individual who is be ing Given this medication in order to turn them into a better they Are being prescribed the medication because they have a serious medical condition that can be effectively treated by there Are More than two dozen antidepressants available in most of them work with varying degrees of by and prozac seems to be one of the More Success accompanied with a Low rate of by denigrating and trivializing its you succeed Only in enhancing the stigma against sufferers of depressive William Ashdown executive tie society for depression and manic depression of Manitoba boundaries out of step your recent editorial on the pro posed new Core area initiative that if its authors follow your train of Bear a new name should have left All of your readers totally the editorial attempts to logically extend the need for training and employment programs beyond a defined Central area to encompass the entire City of on the premise that these services Are required you should be congratulated for realizing and admitting that Arifi arbitrary boundaries do not Well reflect the Mobile society in which we reside does it not that these services Are just As required outside of the official City As they Are required within the centrist taint of the editorial destroys an otherwise intelligent conclusion that people in need of the services described should be Given Access to these services regardless of place of it May have surprised you that ducks unlimited was Able to locate its corporate offices outside of the City of Winnipeg close to Stonewall to the editor the free press welcomes letters from letters must be signed and should include a clearly printed address and Telephone names will be published but not All letters May be edited for style and Short letters Are less Likely to be please address letters to letters to the Winnipeg free 1355 Mountain Winnipeg letters can be sent to our fax number As your editorial describes almost any the free press should remember that Many of its subscribers and advertisers do not live almost anywhere but do in fact live some and if the political leaders in this province could remember this fact before artificially creating restrictive then All of Manitoba could be not just anywhere but could truly be Allan Aitken Stonewall cultural funding an investment i appreciate Vic Prudens concern in his letter to the editor of Decem ber 30 let immigrants pay for Cul Ture that governments must pro vide adequate funding for things from which every Canadian has an Opportunity to Benefit such As Canada to and health he and an Ever increasing num ber of canadians question Wisdom of supporting the cultural preservation projects of Immi Grant groups when More important needs like child care Are under fund i assume he includes the expensive cultural preservation projects of British and Northern european immigrant groups Royal Winnipeg Manitoba theatre Winnipeg which receive Gen Erous governments can funding to aboriginal cultural groups be since they Are no immigrants should tax Breaks and Perks to big business be considered preservation projects cultural funding is a positive in vestment in the health and Educa Tion of our country and every Canadian can Benefit from i am certain that if Pruden and the Ever increasing number wanted to share in the wealth by joining or helping out another immigrant Lan Guage or dance they would be welcomed with open Michael Case Winnipeg copyright persists for letters on december 31 you reported in the article Grey owl letters found the recent in old City of Winnipeg of three letters writ ten in 1931 from Grey the article stated the letters officially belong to the City of win your readers might be interested 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it might take some detective work to find out from Linda Vincent faculty of University of Manitoba Ukraine takes dangerous path Bysa Nunn Washington Post just 29 months ago Ukraine declared its Independence from a disintegrating soviet support for Independence was Strong Back then even among russians living in who comprise almost a Quarter of the country 52 million a Large Rich in Fer tile Black heavy and human Ukraine in 1991 seemed destined for at least As Rosy a future As did which for almost 350 years had ruled unlike poorer soviet an Independent Ukraine appeared to be economically in a magnanimous As Well As a highly prudent Ukraine in 1991 also agreed via a legally binding protocol to the Start i treaty to give up All nuclear weapons on its territory by adhering in the shortest possible time to the treaty on the nonproliferation of nuclear weapons As a there was also talk of reducing Ukraine dependence upon Power provided by the dozen or so outmoded and danger Ous chernobyl Type nuclear reactors still operating in the Ukraine Economy is in its currency rendered virtually worthless by runaway Infra production has All but col and Energy shortages have become increasingly acute during this bitter Winter in Oil exports this reflects russian require ment that its Oil exports be paid for in hard currency and at close to world Market the constraints on Oil As an Energy source have in turn placed extraordinary demands on those old chernobyl Type nuclear which in turn increases the risks of another horrific ethnic and religious divisions within Ukraine Are deepen ukrainian nationalism is strongest in the predominantly Catholic pro russian senti ments Are stronger in the Industry orthodox and these sentiments Are intensifying As the ukrainian Economy the danger of civil strife Between Eastern and Western Ukraine therefore is at a a civil conflict that pits ukrainian nationalists against mostly in Eastern favouring closer ties with Russia will generate massive flows of refugees and place Strong pressures on Russia to intervene on behalf of the roughly 12 million russians in add to this unnerving brew the fact that in numbers of Ukraine currently is the worlds third ranking nuclear with most of its missiles presumably still targeted against the United and with the ukrainians believed by the russian military to be feverishly working to gain operational control by cracking the launch you have a recipe for real while International attention centres on the continuing War in the Balkans and the Prospect of dismantling missile silo it would be to Ukraine advantage to give up its nuclear weapons million to assist with weapons the Centre of the political spec dismantling Ukraine insists it Trum in both Ukraine and Russia must have the current now must play a constructive role ukrainian government is losing in Kravchuk shortsighted War on the korean the possibility of a major conflict be tween two nuclear armed euro Pean states cannot be dismissed and must not be the main obstacle to Ukraine National salvation is Ukraine the government in Kiev president Kravchuk and especially the ukrainian Parlia ment has added to the already formidable difficulties of provid ing help from the the ukrainian government has Pur sued shortsighted policies that have brought the country to the verge of economic and political in so Ukraine risks playing into the hands of precisely those reactionary elements in rus including Vladimir Zhirik that have never accepted ukrainian by repeatedly say ing that it will give up All its nuclear weapons but never quite get Ting around to doing and by at Taching unrealistic conditions to compliance with its arms control obligations for the United states has offered Ukraine Ter National under Ukraine will not be eligible for nuclear dismantlement assistance unless president Clinton can certify that it remains committed to fulfilling All of its arms control of this certification will not be possible unless the recent actions of the ukrainian parliament Are corrected by president Kravchuk and the new retention of nuclear weapons jeopardizes rather than enhances Ukraine Security it provokes the one Power that could directly or in directly destroy creates a serious safety under mines arms control and non Rolf and dissolves Trust from the it is in Ukraine Best in As Well As in the Best inter ests of the world to re solve this matter without further to i he Clinton administration has proposed that strategic nuclear weapons in Ukraine be deactivated by physically removing the the warheads would then be trans ported gradually to Russia for Dis Assembly in the facilities where they were originally Ukraine would Monitor the disassembly process and receive an equitable share of the valuable uranium taken from the either in the form of reprocessed civilian reactor fuel or hard Curren As part of this the United states will Purchase warhead uranium from Russia for reprocess ing and Sale for eventual use in civilian this imaginatively conceived by the United is an excellent example of How the West can play a vital role in moderating tensions Between Ukraine and the main Burden for defusing ukrainian russian ten lies with those two Vladimir a Mirinovsky has never accepted ukrainian a photo by putting aside Petty differences among themselves and Demon Strating the mature leadership that the times require and their respective Peoples beyond the critical Issue of nuclear weapons in it is imperative that those in Ukraine responsible for their country decline grasp the real dangers of the Road they have it is no less imperative that those in Russia responsible for territorial claims and political pressure on Ukraine realize that their behaviour contributes to dangerous tensions in ukrainian us Sian relations and to the current crisis in Ukraine speak clearly the West must speak clearly and frankly to decision makers in both for the Mes Sage to those responsible for cur rent policy should be q your sovereignty is at stake and your prospects for sur Vival As a nation Are q you can dig your own grave As a nation by refusing to undertake the kind of economic and political reforms necessary to at tract Western investment and re Vive your q you cannot expect eco nomic assistance from the West unless you begin to make the hard economic policy choices that other former communist countries Are q Ukraine standing As a responsible member of the inter National Community requires you to live up to your country solemn pledge to be rid of All nuclear the message to those in Russia advocating a hard line toward Ukraine q your expressed claims to the crimean portion of Ukraine and your military doctrine that re serves the right of intervention in former soviet republics understandably have agitated q while you have every right to obtain world Market prices for your it is not in your inter ests to bring Ukraine to its Knees q if civil strife erupts in Ukraine and you choose to inter Vene you must under stand that the consequences could bring a devastating setback to your own to Western economic and ultimately to prospects for democratization in q any changes in the ukrainian russian Border must be undertaken Only in Accord with recognized norms of International Law and Only with the consent of those populations affected by such Sam a is chair Man of the United states Senate committee on armed doonesbury by Garry Trudeau Alii Cam Tell you 15 w even put 706eth5ra task Force to Stupy the and develop a strategy for6ettin6 7he0l66uythrou6h the election Pip you recommend i n Campaign to contain in6 continue coup put a6rbeon ;