by Roger Donnelly
Around 500 Newry school pupils will today hear how taking drug-alcohol cocktails could damage their health, or worse.
Council's Policing and Community Safety Partnership is staging a multi-media event at Newry Sports Hall.
One of the drugs currently being abused by some is the epilepsy prescription drug 'Lyrica'.
Slieve Gullion Councillor Mickey Larkin is on Newry, Mourne and Down PCSP:
£8m to improve access to dentists announced by Health Minister
Fire at derelict hotel being treated as deliberate, police say
Man injured after house and three vehicles set alight in Co Antrim
IT system for Northern Ireland schools ‘largely restored’ following cyber attack
£100 home heating oil grant to be paid out by ‘summer at earliest’