News

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16th February 2016
Drug dealers are even targeting users’ mothers to tighten their grip of fearA new survey has brought this intimidation light.
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16th February 2016
Mums of drug users regularly being ‘threatened by dealers’Two-thirds of people intimidated by drug dealers or threatened over drug debts do not report it to gardai, a study has revealed.
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16th February 2016
Medical Matters: HSE sets the right tone on risks of alcohol consumptionAccording to Dame Sally Davies, the chief medical officer(CMO) for England, “drinking any level of alcohol regularly carries a health risk for anyone, but if men and women limit their intake to no more than 14 units a week it keeps the risk of illness like cancer and liver disease low”
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16th February 2016
Health on the streets: crucial care for people without homesThe number of people attending Safetynet’s mobile medical clinic is growing all the time
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16th February 2016
Majority of drug users do not report attacks - reportA new report has found that two thirds of drug users who are intimidated or attacked by criminal gangs involved in the drugs trade do not report the incidents to the gardaí.
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12th February 2016
Out of Harm’s Way Seminar: February 17thThe Story of North America’s First and Only Public Legal Supervised Injection Site
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12th February 2016
This is how long marijuana, coccaine and alcohol remain in your systemWe all know that certain drugs are illegal in this country, but we also all know that despite that illegal status, there are people who take them on a regular basis.
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12th February 2016
Drugs bought online ‘could be superior’ to street dealsResearch study also refers to potential for less violence if trading is done on ‘darknet’
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12th February 2016
‘Almost any illegal drug available online’Almost any kind of illegal drug can be bought online and delivered by mail, without the buyer having any contact with the drug dealer, according to research carried out by the EU drugs agency.
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11th February 2016
LORD MAYOR: CITY MUST ‘EMBRACE’ DRUG USERSTHE city must ‘embrace’ drug users in order to overcome their issues, according to Lord Mayor, Cllr Chris O’Leary.