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25th November 2016
Mixed reaction to injecting roomsGardaí face huge challenges in policing supervised injecting centres, and legal issues need to be “teased out” before they are introduced, a senior officer has said.
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24th November 2016
DJ Nikki Hayes explains why she will not be having a drink this christmasDJ Nikki Hayes Explains To Us Why She Will Not be Having A Drink This Christmas
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24th November 2016
Minimum unit pricing for alcohol will affect 14% of drinkers - studyA new study has found that minimum unit pricing for alcohol will affect 14% of drinkers and that the cheapest alcohol products were favoured by the heaviest drinkers, irrespective of income levels.
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24th November 2016
Recovery Academy Officially Launches in DublinAcademy Calls for a Re-orientation of Addiction Services.
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24th November 2016
Irish teens consume significantly less alcohol than their European counterpartsIrish teenagers are drinking far less than the average European of the same age, a mew study by the OECD found.
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24th November 2016
Politicians shun doctors meeting over new alcohol sale restriction measuresJunior health minister Marcella Corcoran Kennedy was left redfaced last night as Fine Gael senators and TDs initially shunned a meeting with some of the country’s top doctors over new alcohol sale restriction measures.
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23rd November 2016
Martin Breheny: Drink deal hypocrisy is rampant in Irish sportAren’t double standards wonderful little inventions altogether? Pliable to a degree that sends Uri Geller’s spoon-bending trick hurtling down the magic league, they come with the added advantage of being plentiful.
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23rd November 2016
Dublin injecting centre ‘will deal in death’, councillor saysIndependent Mannix Flynn tells meeting that the planned facility will ‘kill communities’.
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22nd November 2016
‘When there is somewhere safe for people to go and inject they will use it - I will use it’Ireland’s first supervised injection centre could be up and running by the end of 2017.
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21st November 2016
Dublin Businesses Hit Out At Planned Drug Injecting CentreDublin businesses are up in arms over a proposed drug injecting unit in the city centre.