News
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23rd October 2008
Dealers begin to flood city with crack cocaineIrish drug dealers have begun distributing crack cocaine throughout the Dublin Region.
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23rd October 2008
Gardai to join war on African cocaine traffickers.EU Justice ministers including Ireland’s Dermot Ahern are to declare war on west African cocaine traffickers.
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22nd October 2008
Cocaine. You think you know it all…This week a special Cocaine Awareness Campaign is being rolled out in Ballyfermot. The Campaign called ‘Cocaine. You think you know it all…’ has been put together by a number of local drug and youth projects and their participants with funding support from the Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs through The National Drugs Strategy Team.
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22nd October 2008
Study finds one in 20 has taken cocaine.One in 20 Irish people and almost one in 10 young people have taken cocaine, a major all-Ireland study of the drug has found.
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22nd October 2008
Crack cocaine in the Dublin region: an evidence base for a crack cocaine strategy.A new HRB report published on Wednesday 22 October 2008 provides the evidence base for a proactive strategy to tackle crack cocaine use in Ireland.
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21st October 2008
National Advisory Committee on Drug Use - Drug Prevalence Survey, Cocaine Results: Nearly Half of CoNational Advisory Committee on Drugs - Drug Use in Ireland and Northern Ireland: 2006/2007 Drug Prevalence Survey: Cocaine Results.
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20th October 2008
Innovative - Peer Led Street OutreachThe Ana Liffey Drug Project’s assertive street-based outreach work seeks to engage people who are based on the streets of Dublin’s inner city and who may experience problem drug use and/ or homelessness.
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16th October 2008
Acts of Compassion Ministries’, supported by North Inner City Drugs Task Force (NICDTF) through it‘Acts Of Compassion Ministries’ has identified a need within African Communities in the North Inner City and across Dublin for information and awareness on the risks of drug use and contacts for further follow-ups and links to a range of drugs services.
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15th October 2008
Main priority for 2009 is protecting daily front-line services.Statement from Minister Ó Cuív and Minister of State with the responsibility for the National Drugs Strategy, John Curran on the 2009 Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs funding provision.
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14th October 2008
Family Matters: Exploring Key Concepts, Principles and Practices In Relation to Addiction and the FaOpen to those working outside of Ballymun. However, members of Ballymun Local Drugs Task Force or services working in the area may be given first priority.






