LIFELINES

The number of teenage drug abusers tripled between 1990 and 1996 and
approximately 60 per cent of the people seeking help for drug addiction are
under 24. Information for young people, their families and others will be
offered in a free public seminar, Young People and Addiction, on Thursday,
7 p.m., at Milltown Park, the Jesuit Institute on Sandford Road, Ranelagh.
The Rutland Centre, the residential centre which treats all addictions, is
presenting two lectures, How to Identify, Cope and Intervene, for family
members, and Use, Abuse and the Dangers of Addiction.

Checked-by: Mike Gogulski