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15th May 2011
Warning on approach to legal highsThe UK’s hard-line approach to so-called legal highs and other psychoactive substances is making it “more dangerous for young people who want to experiment”, a report is to say.
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15th May 2011
Cutting drink-drive limit ‘no cure-all’A coronor says he is not convinced the proposed reduction in drink-driving limits will have any affect on road carnage.
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14th May 2011
Heroin: the next generationAddiction to the drug is changing. In Dublin, methadone programmes have created a generation of older users who may never get clean.
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14th May 2011
Blame game to the fore in alcohol abuse deathIt is high time society took responsibility for a culture increasingly fuelled by drink.
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13th May 2011
Standardised Responsible Serving of Alcohol programmes needed without delayAlcohol Action Ireland, the national charity for alcohol-related issues, says training in responsible selling and serving of alcohol needs to be made mandatory for all staff and licence holders who serve alcohol without delay.
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13th May 2011
Onus is on TDs if we want to lower bar for alcohol prosecutionsBar staff will have breathed a sigh of relief at the acquittal of two of their colleagues by direction of the trial judge yesterday.
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13th May 2011
Alcohol misuse - Educate yourselfCommon sense has prevailed in the case against a bar manager and a barman accused of the unlawful killing of an English man who died of alcohol poisoning in Thurles three years ago.
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13th May 2011
Family to sue hotel over alcohol poisoning after barmen clearedThe family of a man who died from acute alcohol poisoning are to take a civil case against the hotel he died in.
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12th May 2011
Drugs helpline email support serviceThe Drugs Helpline has recently started offering an Helpline Email Support Service,through the helplines email address: drugshiv@hse.ie
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12th May 2011
Thurles bar staff acquitted of customer’s manslaughterTwo bar staff accused of the manslaughter of an Englishman who died from acute alcohol intoxication have been acquitted by direction of the judge.