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Students say counselling programmes a big joke

Guidance and Counselling session. (Photo: Courtesy)

A new study has poked holes into the guidance and counselling programme in secondary schools, blaming it for the massive substance abuse among youngsters.

Although the new National Authority for the Campaign Against Alcohol and Drug Abuse (Nacada) survey showed that 74.6 per cent of secondary school students identify guidance and counselling as one of the support systems to address alcohol and drugs use in schools, they think it is mediocre.

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