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28th October 2008
Harney to outlaw popular party pill.THE Government is planning to ban the potentially lethal party pill Benzylpiperazine (BZP).
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28th October 2008
Harney has no plans to curb the sale of cannabis seedsCannabis seeds continue to be legally sold as ‘novelty items’ in so-called ‘head shops’ in Dublin city centre – but minister for health Mary Harney has no plans to introduce legislation to curb their sale.
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23rd October 2008
Dealers begin to flood city with crack cocaineIrish drug dealers have begun distributing crack cocaine throughout the Dublin Region.
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23rd October 2008
Gardai to join war on African cocaine traffickers.EU Justice ministers including Ireland’s Dermot Ahern are to declare war on west African cocaine traffickers.
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22nd October 2008
Cocaine. You think you know it all…This week a special Cocaine Awareness Campaign is being rolled out in Ballyfermot. The Campaign called ‘Cocaine. You think you know it all…’ has been put together by a number of local drug and youth projects and their participants with funding support from the Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs through The National Drugs Strategy Team.
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22nd October 2008
Study finds one in 20 has taken cocaine.One in 20 Irish people and almost one in 10 young people have taken cocaine, a major all-Ireland study of the drug has found.
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22nd October 2008
Crack cocaine in the Dublin region: an evidence base for a crack cocaine strategy.A new HRB report published on Wednesday 22 October 2008 provides the evidence base for a proactive strategy to tackle crack cocaine use in Ireland.
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21st October 2008
National Advisory Committee on Drug Use - Drug Prevalence Survey, Cocaine Results: Nearly Half of CoNational Advisory Committee on Drugs - Drug Use in Ireland and Northern Ireland: 2006/2007 Drug Prevalence Survey: Cocaine Results.
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20th October 2008
Innovative - Peer Led Street OutreachThe Ana Liffey Drug Project’s assertive street-based outreach work seeks to engage people who are based on the streets of Dublin’s inner city and who may experience problem drug use and/ or homelessness.
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16th October 2008
Acts of Compassion Ministries’, supported by North Inner City Drugs Task Force (NICDTF) through it‘Acts Of Compassion Ministries’ has identified a need within African Communities in the North Inner City and across Dublin for information and awareness on the risks of drug use and contacts for further follow-ups and links to a range of drugs services.