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19th March 2015
SPECIAL REPORT: The anti-depressant generationWe have always sought ways of coping with depression and anxiety, but our reliance on drugs and the regional variations make for alarming reading, writes Catherine Shanahan.
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19th March 2015
SPECIAL REPORT: Our €40m drug problemAn Irish Examiner investigation has found 330,000 public patients were prescribed those drugs that year at a cost of €40m to the State. The figure is likely to be closer to 500,000 when private patients are taken into account.
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18th March 2015
Varadkar urged to make his position clear on alcohol awareness campaignHealth Minister Leo Varadkar should “unequivocally” say whether he supports a drinks industry-funded alcohol awareness campaign after claims the initiative is a “smokescreen” to take the political focus away from wider legal reforms.
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16th March 2015
Unit of alcohol should cost €1 – the same as litre of milk, says liver disease expertThe minimum price of a unit of alcohol should be the same as a litre of milk at €1, a liver specialist at Beaumont Hospital has recommended.
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16th March 2015
New mind-altering drugs being detected at a rate of two PER WEEKNew psychoactive drugs are being detected in Europe at a rate of two per week, new data from the EU drugs agency has revealed.
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16th March 2015
Is there such a thing as a safe dosage of alcohol?The Public Health (Alcohol) Bill, to be enacted by the end of 2015, will include many measures aimed at tackling overconsumption of alcohol in Ireland. While very moderate drinking poses little threat to health (indeed there is evidence it may be good for you), consumption of alcohol beyond a low level is unhealthy.
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16th March 2015
Cheap wine ban ‘will see heavy drinkers cut back by 70 bottles a year’High-risk drinkers would consume 60 to 70 fewer bottles of wine a year if cheap alcoholic drink was outlawed, experts have predicted.
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16th March 2015
Why is our ‘war on drugs’ mired in contradictions?Emergency legislation to close a loophole that legalised a number of drugs has raised the question as to why some substances are banned but others are not, writes Cormac O’Keeffe
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13th March 2015
Clinics help bring marginalised into main health careHundreds of marginalised people, many living rough, are being brought into mainstream health care through two new clinics run by a Limerick doctor, one of which is held in a soup kitchen.
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13th March 2015
Drink driving doubles during St Patrick’s Day periodFigures released by the Gardaí have shown a big spike in alcohol related road accidents and arrests over the St Patrick’s Day period.