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21st October 2013
Cannabis legalisation: Where do the parties stand?Independent politician Luke ‘Ming’ Flanagan is currently dotting the i’s and crossing the t’s on a bill that will propose the legalisation of cannabis in Ireland.
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21st October 2013
Drugs services facing crisisDrugs services will be shut down or scaled back over the coming months due to funding cuts, according to senior figures in local drugs task forces.
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21st October 2013
Maintaining drug users on the heroin-replacement drug methadone is a form of State-sponsored socialMaintaining drug users on the heroin-replacement drug methadone is a form of State-sponsored social control that substitutes one addictive opiate drug for another, the head of one of Dublin’s biggest drug-free rehabilitation projects has said.
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21st October 2013
Welfare changes put addiction centre’s future in jeopardyOne of the most established addiction treatment centres in the country has warned its future is in doubt because of changes to welfare payments.
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18th October 2013
HSE’s free detox services “very successful” - says reportThe number of heroin users in Westmeath engaging in a methadone programme has risen by almost 75 per cent in the last three years, it was revealed this week.
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18th October 2013
Ireland set to introduce minimum price for alcoholIreland will introduce a minimum price for alcohol - as long as it’s cleared by authorities in Europe.
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17th October 2013
Excise hikes on alcohol ‘punitive and short-sighted’Alcohol industry representatives have described as “punitive” and “short-sighted” increases in beer, wine and spirits in Budget 2014.
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17th October 2013
‘Why do they make smokes anyway?’: Tallaght schoolchildren have their say on new cigarette packaOne third class pupil at Tallaght’s Scoil Aonghusa reckons “they do fancy stuff just to get you to smoke, ” while another says the current designs of cigarette packets are “kind-of bribey — they bribe you to get you to buy them”.
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16th October 2013
Cancer Society: Cigarettes price rise doesn’t go far enoughThe Irish Cancer Society has said that a 10 cent increase in the price of cigarettes announced in yesterday’s Budget is “tokenistic” and “hugely disappointing”.
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16th October 2013
Dublin Simon opens new centre for city’s most vulnerable homeless peopleDublin Simon Community has opened a respite unit in the capital aimed at supporting some of the city’s most vulnerable homeless people.