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• 13th October 2008
  Don’t Lose the Head - Support Booklet for Parents & Guardians text test

  Crosscares’s Teen Counselling and the Drug and Alcohol Programme have launced an easy-to-read booklet for parents, whether or not they have teenagers who use drugs. The booklet was launched on Friday in the Mansion House by the Lord Mayor of Dublin, Cllr Eibhlin Byrne.