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9th January 2012
High time we tackled State’s heroin problemAnalysis: European Union figures out last November articulated clearly what many frontline addiction and healthcare workers have been noticing in Ireland for several years.
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9th January 2012
Is Ireland failing its heroin addicts?The number of heroin users in Ireland is the highest in the EU while deaths of people on methadone programmes increasing. In the first of a two-part series on Ireland’s heroin problem, we ask how addicts are being treated here.
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8th January 2012
Govt to clamp down on ‘distance sale’ of alcohol to minorsThe cost of alcohol is set to go up in the coming months in order to curb its sale to teenagers and problem drinkers, according to a report in The Sunday Times.
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8th January 2012
Govt to clamp down on ‘distance sale’ of alcohol to minorsThe Department of Justice is expected to use new surveillance methods to target the sale of alcohol to minors by third parties.
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8th January 2012
Limerick anti-drugs charity is set to be wound upOne of Limerick’s most prominent charities is to shut down after government cuts of more than a quarter of a million euro.
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7th January 2012
Call to restore anti-drugs phone lineThe Government has been urged to reverse the scrapping of a free and anonymous phone line which the public could use to report suspected drug dealing in their area.
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7th January 2012
Delivery of alcohol may be target of Garda stingUndercover Garda operations targeting the delivery of alcohol to underage children are being considered under new legislation.
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7th January 2012
The herb that got too highRecent labelling of cannabis as a major ‘problem drug’ may surprise those who have smoked the odd joint in the past. But a new, highly potent strain now being grown in Ireland is more harmful than the drug’s benign image would suggest.
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6th January 2012
Voyages programme: Training and education for adults engaged in drug recoveryThe Voyages Programme was set up in 2004 by the Fingal Centre, and is funded by Local Drugs Task Force.
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6th January 2012
Drugs Fear In City As Freephone Line AxedThe fight against Cork’s unlawful drugs trade has been dealt a blow, with the withdrawal of funding for a freephone initiative for the anonymous reporting of suspected drug dealing.