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3rd May 2013
Minimum pricing: Challenge to Scottish alcohol legislation failsA legal challenge to the Scottish government’s plans to introduce minimum pricing per unit of alcohol has failed.
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3rd May 2013
Smokers in Europe ‘not being given enough help to quit’Doctors should be advising patients who smoke that they need to quit on a regular basis including during routine health checks in addition to offering counselling and medication to deal with smoking addiction, according to a new paper published today.
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2nd May 2013
Psych unit patients use illicit drugs, admit staffStaff at an acute psychiatric unit in Ennis have confirmed that drug use among patients has been a problem but said no such unit was likely to be “immune” from the issue.
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1st May 2013
Almost 4,000 deaths prevented due to workplace smoking banAlmost 4,000 lives have been saved in Ireland since the introduction nine years ago of a ban on smoking in the workplace, a study claims.
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30th April 2013
Council want services for drug addicts to return to DroghedaLouth County Council is to call on Health Minister Dr James Reilly to re-instate the treatment services for drug addicts which has been moved from Drogheda to Duleek.
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30th April 2013
High idealsStreet drugs, such as ecstasy (MDMA) and cannabis, are being examined for their medicinal value.
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29th April 2013
Cannabis factories a ‘major issue’Recent discoveries of industrial-size cannabis factories and controversial proposals to end alcohol sponsorship of sport underline the seriousness of the issues being examined in the country’s first National Drugs Media Awards.
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29th April 2013
Alcoholism to blame for liver disease crisisThe number of people being admitted to hospitals in England with liver problems as a result of alcoholism is rising dramatically, figures suggest.
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29th April 2013
Alcohol reports won’t tell you of a generation dying before our eyesThe doctors from The Royal College of Physicians in Ireland are asking the Government to ban the sponsorship of sporting events by alcohol companies.
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25th April 2013
Sport ‘will suffer’ from alcohol sponsorship banA proposed ban on alcohol sponsorship will have a “detrimental effect” on Irish sport, an umbrella organisation has told an Oireachtas committee.