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The HSE has unveiled a new national campaign on the dangers of legal and illegal drugs. The campaign is seeking to raise awareness of the dangers and significant negative mental and physical health effects that can be caused by these psychoactive substances.

Parents can learn how to help their children in the run up to the Junior and Leaving Certificate exams by attending a special lecture on the subject to be held next month.

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Group therapy sessions will be commencing the week beginning April 12 in Ruxton Court (off Dominick St). The group will meet weekly and there will be a maximum of eight participants in each group. There will be a Coping with Depression group held Mondays at 11.00am or Tuesdays at 6.30pm Coping with Anxiety sessions will be on Mondays at 6.30pm. and Coping with Grief or Loss on Tuesdays at 11.00 a.m.

On this, the United Nation’s World Autism Awareness Day (WAAD), Castlepollard native and spokesman for ReConnect Autism Ireland, Declan Sweeney, points out that though the prevalence of autism has increased 20 times in a little over 20 years, his organisation is able to bring a little more hope to its sufferers and their parents.

St Loman’s psychiatric hospital in Mullingar has been earmarked for closure as part of a €50 million HSE investment into mental health facilities, while a new community nursing unit has also been promised for the town.

Athlone nightclub Genesis has been criticised by drinks watchdog MEAS (Mature Enjoyment of Alcohol in Society) for breaching guidelines and encouraging irresponsible drinking.

A consultant psychiatrist has told the High Court she believes a retired Army captain who is suing the State for damages for alleged post-traumatic stress disorder as a result of his experiences in Lebanon does not actually have PTSD and, if he has, it is no more than "mild" PTSD.

Play therapy is an approach that uses the power of play to help children resolve a range of emotional, behavioural, and developmental issues.

If you look closely enough at a single pebble, if you hold it in front of your eye line, it can obscure the entire horizon. Soon it can seem like the rest of the world no longer exists, such is the magnitude of that pebble which obscures our view.