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4th June 2014
Launch of addiction nurses networking groupA group of Nurses working in addictions in Ireland have been in contact informally and have expressed an interest in setting up a professional focus / networking group.
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4th June 2014
Survey: Irish teens are among top cocaine users in EUIrish schoolchildren are among the highest cocaine and cannabis users in the EU, according to a international survey.
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3rd June 2014
Are e-cigarettes the answer?Dublin taxi driver Bernard Fitzsimons, who is 56, gave up smoking a year ago, after taking up e-cigarettes. He smoked about 10 packets a week, but went down to three cigarettes a day and then gave them up altogether.
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2nd June 2014
Mixed messages about lethal drugsOpinion: Time for warnings to help young people stay safe.
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31st May 2014
The Sobriety Diaries: What I learned in one month without alcoholIn early May, a ‘normal Irish drinker’ undertook a minor social experiment: to give up drink for a month and write about it. Now it’s over. So is she getting drunk tonight?
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30th May 2014
Opinion: The first step to fixing Ireland’s alcohol problem? Fight back against the drinks industrAlcohol kills about 3.3 million people every year, or 5.9 per cent of all deaths globally, a new report by the World Health Organisation notes. It is also linked to over 200 disease and injury conditions and is associated, for example, with liver cirrhosis, cancers, and alcohol dependence.
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30th May 2014
E-cigarettes could save millions of lives, WHO toldA group of 53 leading scientists has warned the World Health Organisation not to classify e-cigarettes as tobacco products, arguing that doing so would jeopardise a major opportunity to slash disease and deaths caused by smoking.
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30th May 2014
Smokers are cutting back on food to fund their cravingThe disastrous smoking habits of the Irish have been highlighted in two new studies — we are far more prone than other Europeans to continue smoking after suffering a stroke and one in 10 of us cut back on food to fund our craving.
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28th May 2014
From the UK: More young revellers ‘pre-loading’Young people drink significant quantities of alcohol before they go out as they find bars and nightclubs “scary”, according to a study.
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28th May 2014
Record number of new synthetic drugs detectedA record number of new synthetic drugs are being detected in Europe — but stretched agencies are unable to keep up with the dizzying array of substances because of budget cuts.
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