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31st August 2015
“Behind every overdose there is a family that is suffering”Today is International Overdose Awareness Day.
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31st August 2015
Aodhán Ó Ríordáin urges safe spaces for drug usersAddicts should be legally allowed to bring their own heroin to State-sanctioned injection centres, drugs minister Aodhán Ó Ríordáin has indicated.
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31st August 2015
EU court to issue opinion on minimum alcohol priceEurope’s top court will provide the first indication this week as to whether it will allow minimum alcohol pricing — a measure being considered by a number of countries including Ireland.
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28th August 2015
Third of students use legal drugs to ‘get high’A national survey of student drug use has found approximately 30% have used medications prescribed by their GP to “get high” while 18% have used non-prescription drugs to do so.
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26th August 2015
Christy Dignam and Minister O’Ríordáin to celebrate Recovery Walk 2015Christy Dignam and Minister O’Ríordáin to celebrate Recovery Walk 2015
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26th August 2015
Tourism can’t be ‘smokescreen’ for cheaper alcoholIrish tourism should not be used as a smokescreen for a campaign by the drinks industry for cheaper alcohol.
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25th August 2015
Irish tourism should not be allowed to serve as a smokescreen for the campaign for cheaper alcoholIrish tourism has been placed at the centre of the alcohol industry’s campaign for cheaper alcohol in an attempt to mask the hugely damaging impact an excise duty cut would have on our health and wellbeing, according to Alcohol Action Ireland, the national charity for alcohol-related issues.
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25th August 2015
Use of ‘unpredictable and highly risky’ gas for cheap high on the riseA growing number of drug users in Dublin city are risking sudden death by inhaling butane gas for a cheap high, experts have warned.
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25th August 2015
Increase in numbers sniffing gasWarnings are being issued regarding the life-threatening danger of inhaling butane gas — with drug agencies noticing a resurgence in recent years.
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25th August 2015
Opiate death risk warningDrug users leaving methadone treatment have an almost four-fold increased risk of dying, a major study has found.
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