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9th December 2010
Drugs strategy ‘seriously undermined’Drugs groups have accused the Government of “seriously undermining” the National Drugs Strategy by slashing both the drugs and community development budgets.
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9th December 2010
Heading for a national crisis on methadone treatmentThe article that appeared in the November 26 edition of Irish Medical Times (see: www.imt.ie/news/2010/11/methadone-trained-gps-nearing-1000-mark.html) regarding the training of Level 1 and 2 GPs under the Methadone Protocol Scheme contained a number of important and misleading inaccuracies.
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8th December 2010
‘Not enough hangovers’ on TV soapsSoap operas including Coronation Street and EastEnders have been criticised for regularly showing characters drinking but rarely showing them hungover.
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7th December 2010
Services alert: Heroin drought in Dublin and across IrelandReports are reaching us from drug services of a heroin drought in Dublin and across Ireland.
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7th December 2010
Opiates ‘too addictive to be available over the counter’Psychiatrist says medication should be made prescription only after study reveals significant number of abusers.
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7th December 2010
Ireland paying heavy price for alcohol“We are all paying a high price for cheap alcohol,” the national charity for alcohol-related issues, Alcohol Action Ireland, has warned.
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6th December 2010
One in 10 teens says parents’ drinking damages their livesOne in 10 Irish teenagers says their parents’ drinking affects their own lives in a “hugely negative way” while a quarter of teenagers admit to binge drinking themselves, according to a survey to be published today.
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6th December 2010
Teenagers: Parents’ drinking affects usA survey published today shows how young people feel about their parents’ drinking habits.
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5th December 2010
Judge criticises lack of treatment for addicts in Cork jailA prisioner facing a long sentence for dealing heroin who carried heroin, cannabis and 180 anti-depressant tablets into prison inside his body was given an additional year in jail yesterday.
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3rd December 2010
‘Very high’ alcohol consumption a factor in most rapes“Very high levels of alcohol consumption” are implicated in the majority of rapes of young women, most of whom have also been drinking, according to Dr Stacey Scriver of global women’s studies at the National University of Ireland Galway.