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28th May 2015
New take-home pilot launched for naloxoneThe HSE has announced details of a new pilot project to provide naloxone to opiate users in an effort to reduce drug-related deaths.
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28th May 2015
Youth group praises ‘positive outcome’ from controversial drinking campaignThe Alcohol Health Alliance was good result from Diageo dispute, says Youth Council
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27th May 2015
Legal highs: Belfast sellers first to be convicted in the UK, as landmark city council prosecutionTwo men and a woman from Belfast have been convicted in a landmark legal case over the sale of so-called legal highs in Northern Ireland.
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25th May 2015
Commission set to dump EU alcohol strategyVytenis Andriukaitis, the EU’s Health and Food Safety Commissioner, said that the executive has no intention of submitting a new strategy to reduce alcohol-related harm in Europe, suggesting that the issue will be tackled as part of a broad range of “risk factors” affecting chronic diseases.
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25th May 2015
Love affair with drink rekindled as new figures show surge in alcohol abuseYoung women now being treated for chronic alcoholism as a result of chaotic drinking at college, writes Allison Bray.
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22nd May 2015
Fewer than 100 people are injecting drugs in public, claims ministerDRUGS Minister Aodhan O Riordain has said that fewer than 100 addicts are publicly injecting drugs in Dublin.
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22nd May 2015
Gardaí face ‘impossible situation’Senior gardai have privately told drugs minister Aodhán Ó Ríordáin they face an “impossible situation” battling open drug use on the streets and that current approaches “aren’t working”.
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22nd May 2015
Heroin overdose antidote will help reduce deathsAbout 600 heroin users are to be given a life-saving antidote in cases of overdoses, under a HSE project aimed at reducing drug deaths.
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21st May 2015
Bar Council presents draft legislation for introduction of medically supervised injection unitsDraft legislation for the introduction of medically supervised injection units was presented to the Minister of State with the responsibility for Drugs Aodhán Ó Ríordáin TD yesterday by the Bar Council of Ireland’s pro bono programme, the Voluntary Assistance Scheme (VAS).
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21st May 2015
Ministers welcome availability of life-saving antidote to heroin-related overdoses aimed at reducingMinister for Health, Dr Leo Varadkar and Minister of State with responsibility for the National Drugs Strategy, Aodhán Ó Ríordáin both welcomed today’s confirmation by the HSE that naloxone will be made available from tomorrow for prescription and supply to opioid drug users under an initiative aimed at reducing drug-related deaths and near-fatal drug poisonings.
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