Pilot project aims to help addicts

A pilot programme aimed at rehabilitating drink and drug addicts persistently in trouble is to be set up in the East Cork town of Youghal.

Pilot project aims to help addicts

The programme, which is being coordinated by the Southern Regional Drugs and Alcohol Taskforce (SRDAT), will initially last a year and involve a multi-agency approach to helping addicts get back on the straight and narrow.

Gordon Kinsley, a SRDAT development worker, said the pilot programme would be based on a scheme called COAIM which had been very successful in Wexford.

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