PAE4.,mBY FME PRES, WEDNESAy. JUNE 31992 fflaiemon treatmen1; services at Pinewood Centre and Destiny Manor were -recently given a boost wvith the announcement of additiona1 funding from'the pro- vinc. Pinewood Centre will receive $400,000 to create an outpatient addiction treatmenit service for youth. Regional «action centres» will offer community-based services, to youth from across Durham Rith the funding, the Oshawa- based centre will hire eight more staff and serve as many as 575 moeyugpol ach year. Pinwoo Cetrealready pro- videsdtxfcto, day treat- UAeAA, _ uDmUL~atimerk Au iu r.eiuui services with funding from the health *ministry's community mental health branch. The Pinewood. Centre proposai was one of 18 chosen- from su)> missions fromn six areas in Ontario where referrals to out- of-country addiction programs were highest. Another submission *as made by estnyManor, which will reie$9e,000 a year frOM the ministry to'create an outpatient addiction treatment centre for women. The facility will. hire three more staff. Destiny Manor already offers short- and Iong-term resfidential treatment to *women in Durham iLs4il -kuu ui uuIuiIg ai. aiwng after-care and family programsa. The funding is part of $4.1 million announced Uwat year by- Heaith Minister'Frances Lankin to. expand residential and day programs in Ontario. The'minister also announced then that $5.3 million would be spent to expand assessment and referral facilities, detoxification centres, and toestablish a regis- try of addiction services a nd available, treatment open ings i Ontario. Lankin promisecithe expansion of services witli money saved by- restricting OHIP coverage on high-cost U.S. treat- ment. In 1990, Ontario paid $51.3. million for 3,700 residents to rtm uuucwonrearmleiT, m héalthinsuac haîs no. longer the U.S. icoe ndthou l cost of ,out-of- Since. Oct. 1,- 1991., provincial country. addiction treatmént. New Police station, Opens On-Monday <lune 1,1 the Dur- ham Régional Police.Pcern detachmüent begkan'operations.ont of the new b5uldg 'at, 1710 Xington R. at Broc Rd. Th ormeL oieofc at 962 Kingston Rd., e Picerig has been closed. The "officiai opening" of the new Pickering headquarters w01 be held on Frday, J une 19,s at 2 p.m. - exitn g * lunch and i nnIe r:4'p eiaIuI1