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27th April 2011
Survey reveals Irish fork out €2,000 a year on alcoholIrish people are spending on average almost €2,000 a year on alcohol with Dublin and Louth the counties with highest weekly intake, new figures show.
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27th April 2011
Ireland ‘second in world’ for alcohol consumptionThe country’s biggest boozers are in Louth and Dublin.
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26th April 2011
Tobacco firms used diet-aid chemicals to convince people that smoking makes you thinBritish and American tobacco companies deliberately added powerful appetite-suppressing chemicals to cigarettes to attract people worried about their weight, according to internal industry documents dating from 1949 to 1999.
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25th April 2011
HSE blasted for funding just 30 detox bedsDirector of the group, which works with heroin addicts battling to get off drugs, Tony Geoghegan, said the lack of residential detox beds shows the HSE’s lack of interest in tackling the issue.
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23rd April 2011
HSE to develop policy to tackle benzodiazepines overuseThe Department of Health and the HSE are developing new policy to improve practices around the overuse of benzodiazepines (BZDs) within the health system.
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22nd April 2011
US airstrikes dent sale of heroin in IrelandAmerican airstrikes on a major opium growing region in Afghanistan and the rise in cannabis “grow houses” has been attributed to a huge fall in the use of heroin in Cork.
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22nd April 2011
Gardai to tackle outdoor drinking issue ahead of the summerGardai in Castlebar have pledged to tackle the issue of drinking outdoors over the coming weeks before the summer starts and the issue becomes a major problem.
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21st April 2011
Byrne: Breath test legislation will help save livesLeading road safety campaigner Gay Byrne has said legislation making breathalyser tests mandatory for anyone in a car accident where someone has been injured will significantly reduce the number of deaths on Irish roads.
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20th April 2011
ECAD-European Cities Against DrugsA meeting of the ECAD Advisory Board took place in the Council Chambers,City Hall, Cork on 4th Febraury 2011. Cllr Jim Corr is the Chairperson of ECAD.
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20th April 2011
Carrying cannabis medicine to be legalDepartment of Health officials have been instructed by the Department of Justice to enact an EU agreement which allows people to carry legally prescribed narcotic or psychotropic drugs for medical use.