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You can get us in Tallaght. The 65B and the 50 buses stop outside the premises both coming from and going to Dublin. Ask the bus driver to let you off at the Killinarden House or at the shopping centre. If you get lost phone us and we'll give directions.

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We hold both the identity of the person who looks for help or advice and what they disclose in strictest confidentiality. We are obliged by law to break this if you are going to murder someone, commit suicide or name someone who has sexually abused you.

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We don't accept the word 'junkies'. We refer to problem drug users. Yes, you will meet problem drug users. Problem heroin users attend in the morning up to 3 pm and then we meet with cocaine users from 5 pm onwards. We keep them separate since cocaine users feel that they are different to heroin users. We also deal with other problem drug users such as cannabis users.

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Yes. We offer counselling and supervised urinalysis and a letter for the courts. If you are drug free then we can help you prove that to the courts.

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All our services are paid for by various statutory bodies. The only charge is for private supervised urinalysis. If the Probation Service ask you to get supervised urinalysis they pick up the bill.

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Yes. We visit all prisons in the general Dublin area. However, we limit our visits to people who have linked in with us before they are imprisoned.

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Yes it does. All drugs that give a high give a resultant low when you stop doing the drug. For some people this depression can be very service and sometimes causes suicide.

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The answer to the first is that an alcoholic is anyone who drinks more than their doctor. The answer to the second is that a problem drug user is anyone who uses more drugs than their drug counsellor.