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4th August 2015
Community group opposes plan to decriminalise drugsCAD says Ó Ríordáin plan will lead to increase in use of cannabis and cocaine
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4th August 2015
Efforts to stop ‘labs’ making crystal methThe sizes of medicine packs, including some cold and flu remedies, could be reduced in a bid to counter the manufacture of illegal drugs
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30th July 2015
Role for Medically Supervised Centres discussed in combatting problems of drug abuseSinn Féin health spokesperson Deputy Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin today chaired a session of the Think Tank on the National Drug Problem in the Mansion House, entitled “The Viability of Medically Supervised Injecting Rooms in an Irish Context”.
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30th July 2015
Drugs meeting finds ‘wide consensus’ on decriminalisationThere was “wide consensus” at a major meeting on the national drug misuse problem that drugs across the board should be decriminalised, Minister of State for the National Drugs Strategy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin said.
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30th July 2015
144 arrests as part of European drink drive operationGardaí have revealed that 144 people were arrested here as part of a Europe-wide crackdown on road traffic offences.
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29th July 2015
Irish drink driver levels above European average in new operationIrish drivers were more likely to be above the drink-driving limit than the European average, figures a new policing operation show
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29th July 2015
Only 4% of dealers get 10-year jail termsOnly 4% of offenders convicted of large-scale drug dealing get the mandatory minimum sentence of 10 years. Many get suspended sentences.
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28th July 2015
St James’s to begin routine HIV, hepatitis testing of emergency department patientsSt James’s Hospital in Dublin today begins routine testing for HIV and hepatitis B and C for all emergency department patients.
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28th July 2015
Half of callers to helpline suffered abuseSexual abuse in childhood was reported by more than half of callers to a telephone counselling service for the first six months of 2015.
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28th July 2015
That’s men: Let’s bin the binge and tackle harmful drinking insteadWe need to have easily understood ways of defining standard drinks
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