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21st October 2009
Mixed reaction to drink-driving plan.The Irish Insurance Federation (IIF) today said it supported proposals by Minister for Transport Noel Dempsey to reduce drivers’ maximum permitted blood/alcohol content from 80mg to 50mg per 100mls.
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20th October 2009
HSE South to eliminate addiction waiting listsA major investment in addictions services involving additional methadone clinics in Cork City, Tralee, Waterford, Wexford, Carlow and Kilkenny was announced this week by Pat Healy, the Regional Director of Operations, HSE South.
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20th October 2009
Launch of CityWides response to the Governments National Drugs Strategy.Speaking at the launch of CityWide’s response to the Government’s National Drugs Strategy, Daithi Doolan, Citywide Co-ordinator said, “It is now a fact that every city and town in Ireland is being affected by the ongoing drugs crisis yet this government sees fit to relegate responsibility for its own National Drug Strategy to that of a part-time job.
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19th October 2009
Helpline identifies drug trends.There were large increases in the numbers of inquiries about alcohol, cocaine, ecstasy and smoking heroin in Ireland in the second half of 2008, according to a European survey on identifying the emergence of new drugs and drug trends with the help of drug helplines.
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13th October 2009
Gardaí to be given powers to catch drug drivers.Gardai are to be given powers to help secure convictions for drug driving under a new Road Traffic Bill to be published shortly.
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12th October 2009
€3m drug rehab drive for Munster.Extra methadone clinics will be set up across Munster as part of a €3 million package announced yesterday to help heroin addicts.
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8th October 2009
Heroin has replaced cannabis as second highest treated drug in the south east.Heroin has replaced cannabis as the second highest treated drug in the south east, Health Service Executive figures show.
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7th October 2009
Ireland cannot afford a failed drugs strategy.“There are many things the country cannot afford and one of them is another failed drugs strategy,” the Fine Gael spokesperson on the National Drugs Strategy, Deputy Catherine Byrne, has said.
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7th October 2009
Addiction service highlights extent of heroin abuse.Almost three out of five young people attending one of the south’s largest addiction services are using heroin, compared to almost none three years ago.
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1st October 2009
Funding of Government-led drug programme by charity causes concern.The funding of a Government-led drug programme by a charity operating in developing countries raises serious questions about future drug funding, a leading voluntary drug service has said.