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26th September 2010
Healy-Rae opposes teen drink planIndependent councillor and publican Danny Healy-Rae has strongly criticised a plan to use children to carry out test purchases of alcohol so gardaí can assess what bars, clubs and off-licences are selling drink to minors.
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25th September 2010
Red light’ warning over heroin spreadRed warning lights should be attached to a report highlighting the spread of heroin across the country, former prison governor John Lonergan has said.
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25th September 2010
Over-the-counter analgesics require closer monitoringPhysicians should ask their patients specifically about the use of non-prescribed analgesics when taking medication histories, concluded the largest published collection of cases examining over-the-counter (OTC) codeine-ibuprofen misuse.
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24th September 2010
Record numbers of heroin users treatedThe number of heroin users in treatment has reached record levels since the recession began and is increasing most significantly in the regions, according to the biggest drug treatment group in the Republic.
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24th September 2010
Heroin use continues to rise in capital with 640 new injectors seeking helpThe number of heroin users in Dublin continues to grow – with an extra 642 new drug-injectors seeking help last year from one of the country’s leading charities working with drug users.
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23rd September 2010
Drug use in Wexford costing €15m a yearA reception held last Saturday to launch the expanded services of the Cornmarket Project into New Ross, Enniscorthy and Gorey heard that an estimated €15 million a year is now being spent on illegal drug use throughout County Wexford.
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23rd September 2010
Drinks companies recruit minors as fansSome drinks companies are deliberately flouting filtering software codes that were agreed by their industry and the Government in 2004 to prevent online marketing to minors, a lecturer in the School of Marketing at the Dublin Institute of Technology has claimed.
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23rd September 2010
Alcohol test scheme bizarre, says FGPlans to use children to carry out test purchases of alcohol so gardaí can assess what bars, clubs and off-licences are selling drink to minors have been described by Fine Gael as “bizarre and ill-conceived”.
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22nd September 2010
Five minute drugs test ‘can tell parents if their children use cocaineA cheap and quick drugs test which allows parents to check whether their children have been using cocaine or cannabis has been developed by British scientists.
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22nd September 2010
CityWide demands Lord Mayor to clarify outrageous commentsCityWide Drugs Crisis Campaign has demanded that Dublin’s Lord Mayor, Cllr. Gerry Breen, clarifies the outrageous article in yesterday’s Sunday Independent.