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12th April 2012
Prescribing exams on the GP horizon?Gary Culliton spoke with Prof Patrick Murray, Professor of Clinical Pharmacology and Consulting Physician, ahead of IMT’s annual GP Practice Management Seminar to be held this month.
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10th April 2012
Independent off-licences blame closure rate on below-cost alcohol sales by supermarketsThe specialist off-licence sector will “die a death within five years” unless the Government “urgently” implements key Department of Health recommendations to address alcohol abuse, its representative group has claimed.
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9th April 2012
Eilis O’Hanlon: We’re adults: it’s time the drink nannies grew up tooYes, we drink differently than the Italians. Let’s stop spending money on this non-problem, writes Eilis O’Hanlon
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6th April 2012
Remembrance ServiceTo Commemorate The Lives Lost Through Alcohol and Drug Addiction
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5th April 2012
Moderate alcohol impacts on breast cancer riskA new review of research that looks at the relationship between alcohol consumption and breast cancer has found that low level or moderate drinkers who consume just one drink a day have a 5 per cent increased risk of breast cancer.
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4th April 2012
URRÚS & UCD: Diploma in Community Drugs and Alcohol WorkUrrús and University College Dublin. Diploma in Community Drugs and Alcohol Work (NFQ level 7) - 1 Year (part-time)
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3rd April 2012
Statistics from the Northern Ireland Drug Addicts Index 2011Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety today published a Statistical Bulletin summarising information from the Northern Ireland Addicts Index.
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3rd April 2012
Poles apart: Fans warned over local brewBeer-loving soccer fans heading to Poland for Euro 2012 this summer have been advised to ration their consumption of the strong local brews.
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1st April 2012
Cannabis returns to top of tradeCannabis and herbal marijuana have re-emerged as the dominant product in the Irish drugs trade as an affordable ‘high’ replacing the cocaine-fuelled market of the economic ‘boom’ period, gardai say.
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29th March 2012
Just one glass of wine a day linked to breast cancer: researchWomen should stick to just one glass of wine a day and those with a family history of breast cancer should abstain altogether as researchers find even moderate alcohol consumption increases chances of developing the disease.