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Tue 07 Jul 2009Increase in number of girls seeking addiction treatment
AN INCREASE in the number of 15-year-old girls seeking drug and alcohol treatment over the last year has been reported by the country’s main residential treatment centre.
In the last year the Aislinn centre has raised the number of beds it provides by 20 per cent in order to cope with the increase in demand, the centre’s director Declan Jones said at the launch of its annual report.
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