It's time to face up to the drugs problem in the region and stop assuming it's someone else's problem.
That's the message from the project co-ordinator at Teach na Daoine in Monaghan in response to calls for a Citizen's Assembly on Drugs to be established.
Packie Kelly says that we need to start providing people of all ages with the education and ability to make informed decisions around drugs.
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He also says that while there is hope and the idea of an assembly is positive society has to be ready for this hard conversation:
