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'.
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