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21st July 2010
Legal Highs Users SurveyA research team at Dublin Institute of Technology are undertaking a study of legal high use.
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20th July 2010
Tranquillisers and alcohol blamed for majority of drug deathsPrescription tranquillisers and alcohol are the two substances most implicated in drug deaths due to poisonings, new figures show.
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20th July 2010
Drugs linked to 250 teen deaths over 10 yearsAlmost 250 teenagers have died in drug-related incidents over a 10-year period, including 18 children aged under 15.
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20th July 2010
Alcohol-induced abuse of children is rife, says bishopFigures for alcohol abuse “would imply that many children are being physically, emotionally and sexually abused across this country on a daily basis – and especially at weekends,” the Auxiliary Bishop of Down and Connor, Donal McKeown, has said.
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19th July 2010
Steep rise in number of cocaine drug deathsOne-in-10 of the drug-related deaths registered in Ireland over 10 years were due to cocaine, according to a new report.
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19th July 2010
Gardaí seize 4.5 tonnes of ‘legal highs’More than 4.5 tonnes of drugs worth tens of millions of euro were removed from head shops in a Garda operation following a Government ban on May 11.
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19th July 2010
The Beyond Clinic, Dublin, launch a new programme to help people stop drinking alcohol.A new approach to dealing with problem drinking habits has been launched. It offers immediate help to those for whom alcohol has become a problem.
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19th July 2010
This old pill could take the pain out of battling alcoholism Read more: http://www.irishexaminer.coNo matter how many months he had been sober, no matter how, objectively, he knew that drinking was the road to hell, the visceral craving for alcohol overcame his resolution and he repeatedly relapsed.
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16th July 2010
Dutch told they can ban sale of drugs to touristsThe Netherlands can ban over-the-counter sales of marijuana in Dutch “coffee shops” to non-residents to end drugs tourism from Ireland, Belgium, France, Germany and other countries, a senior adviser to the European Union high court said yesterday.
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15th July 2010
‘Hysteria’ blamed for closure of head shopOne of the Republic’s few remaining head shops has blamed “mass public hysteria” by “persistent negative media coverage” for its imminent closure.