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23rd October 2013
Doctors urge help for women seeking to stub out habitDoctors specialising in care of mothers-to-be have called for greater access during pregnancy to smoking cessation programmes after an audit of baby deaths showed more than a sixth of the women who suffered perinatal loss were smokers.
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23rd October 2013
Minimum alcohol pricing on way in bid to fight abuseThe introduction of a minimum price for alcohol will be the centrepiece of the Government’s national substance misuse strategy to be announced tomorrow.
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23rd October 2013
Not setting date for alcohol sports ban ‘cowardice’The Government has been accused of political cowardice for caving in to the drinks industry and not setting a date for the banning of alcohol sponsorship at sporting events.
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23rd October 2013
What is the purpose of minimum pricing?Why is the Government talking about alcohol prices again? The pricing changes being planned now are not aimed at generating revenue through excise duty but tackling the high levels of problem drinking in the State with a range of measures which – notably – include minimum pricing.
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23rd October 2013
New strategy to take persistent beggars off streets of DublinDublin’s 50 most persistent beggars are to be targeted for removal from the streets under a new initiative from the Garda and Dublin City Council.
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23rd October 2013
Days of cheap drink coming to end in new alcohol strategyThe price of cheap bottles of vodka and low-cost cans of cider and lager is going to be jacked up under a government clampdown on alcohol.
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22nd October 2013
Citywide Drugs Crisis Campaign Press release 22/10/2013Government has abandoned our community by abandoning the National Drug Strategy.
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22nd October 2013
Uruguay to sell legal marijuana for $1 a gramUruguay’s drug tsar says the country plans to sell legal marijuana for $1 a gram to combat drug-trafficking, according to a local newspaper.
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22nd October 2013
Column: Facing the fear – over half our population drinks in a high-risk wayIt’s impossible to seriously address mental health in Ireland without resolving our harmful relationship with alcohol, says Suzanne Costello.
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21st October 2013
Genetic link to alcoholism highlightedA new campaign is aiming to raise awareness of the genetic link associated with alcohol dependence.