News
RSS
-
16th December 2014
Drink-drive clampdown leads to fall in drug-use road deathsTougher drink-driving campaigns have contributed to a “sustained fall” in the number of deaths among drug users linked to road traffic collisions, a new report has revealed.
-
16th December 2014
Legal drugs cause 75% of poisoning deathsLegal drugs, including prescription medication and alcohol, account for three out of four of all deaths directly due to the effects of drugs.
-
16th December 2014
The day I met Jonathan Corrie, offered to buy him lunch and he told me about his life‘People die on streets all the time. Ever since people have been living on the streets, they’ve been dying on the streets,” a homeless friend told me recently.
-
16th December 2014
Ana Liffey Drug Project Seeks Resources for Residential Stabilisation ServicesThe Ana Liffey Drug Project, which works directly with over 2,500 people affected by addiction problems in Ireland every year is seeking support to provide a suitable premises for a ‘low threshold residential stabilisation’ service.
-
15th December 2014
Health Research Board reports latest drug-related deaths figuresThe number of drug-related deaths has decreased slightly from 645 in 2011 to 633 in 2012*, according to the latest figures published by the Health Research Board (HRB).
-
15th December 2014
Citywide Drugs Crisis Campaign call for the immediate appointment of a Junior MinisterOn foot of the release today by the Health Research Board of the 2012 Drug Related Deaths report, Citywide Drugs Crisis Campaign are calling for the immediate appointment of a Junior Minister with sole responsibility for the National Drugs Strategy, a call already made by Citywide at the Oireachtas Justice Committee on Wednesday 10th December.
-
15th December 2014
Drugs ‘kill 12 people per week’More than 12 people a week die from overdoses or drug-related causes in Ireland, a new report shows.
-
15th December 2014
Coroner issues ecstasy warning after two drowningsA coroner has issued a public warning about undiscovered side-effects of ecstasy following the deaths by drowning of two men.
-
15th December 2014
Most victims of sex assault ‘had drunk six pints’The majority of people who sought help from the country’s busiest sexual assault treatment unit last year had drank the average alcohol equivalent of six pints of beer.
-
15th December 2014
Demon drink: greatest public health issue of our ageWorking on the front line in an addiction rehabilitation centre means that I see, first hand, the harm that substance addiction can have on individuals, families and the wider community. However, substance addiction and the problems that accompany it are not confined to the kind of programmes I work with.
Safer Student Nights
Poll
eBulletin
