News
RSS
-
22nd April 2012
Smoking ban on cards for beaches and parksHealth Minister James Reilly wants to ban smoking in parks and on beaches in a bid to discourage children from taking up the habit.
-
21st April 2012
Headshops owner imported drugs without licenceThe owner of a chain of headshops faces up to 10 years in prison, fines of up to €120,000 or both after pleading guilty to importing illegal medical products and selling the “Viagra-type” drugs wholesale without a licence.
-
21st April 2012
Viagra-type drugs were sold on to headshopsThe owner of a chain of headshops faces up to 10 years for illegally importing Viagra-like products.
-
21st April 2012
Houses of the Oireachtas: Written Answers - Sale of AlcoholDeputy Brendan Griffin asked the Minister for Health his views and intention in relation to the sale of alcoholic products in retail units; if he is considering changes to layout plans for such units; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
-
21st April 2012
Houses of the Oireachtas: Written Answers - National Substance Misuse StrategyDeputy Terence Flanagan asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he supports the steering group’s report on a National Substance Misuse Strategy; and if it will be supporting the implementation of its recommendations that drinks industry sponsorship of sporting events here should be phased out through legislation by 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
-
20th April 2012
Ecstasy use can lead to depressionTeenagers who take ecstasy are much more likely to suffer with depression, according to Canadian researchers.
-
20th April 2012
Surge expected in liver cirrhosis casesA significant surge in liver disease is expected to take place in Ireland over the next 20 years as a long-term legacy of the country’s heroin problem, a leading public health medicine expert has claimed.
-
19th April 2012
Treating heroin users with heroin works – EU reportSupervised heroin use has been found to be of more benefit to chronic and ‘untreatable’ heroin users than any other treatment, a new study has found.
-
19th April 2012
Antidote for cocaine overdose shows promise in UK lab testsBack from the dead: Antidote for cocaine overdose shows promise in lab tests.
-
19th April 2012
Young Irish immigrants risking health to sample the high lifeThere was a time when recreational drugs were the highs of choice for the middle-class youth and hippies.
Safer Student Nights
Poll
eBulletin
