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19th August 2014
Under the radar: the silent grip of Hepatitis CHepatitis C, a viral disease that affects the liver, is four times more common than the HIV virus. Around the world, 170 million people are infected with it. Between 20,000 and 50,000 people in the Republic of Ireland are estimated to have hepatitis C infection – but more than half of those don’t know they have it. Up to 1,000 new cases are identified each year.
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18th August 2014
From the UK: Campaign launched to warn of risks of ‘legal’ highsRadio, digital and mobile phone adverts are aimed at people aged 15 to 21 and warn them about the risks of taking the drugs.
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18th August 2014
From the UK: ‘Legal highs’ may be linked to more deaths than heroin by 2016Deaths linked to legal highs could surpass those related to heroin use within just two years, a new report by a think-tank will say.
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18th August 2014
The ethical minefield of arts sponsorship“A title sponsorship is someone who has an immediate brand association at the naming level,” he says. Examples of that would be the Jameson Dublin Film Festival, which has become embedded in how punters refer to the festival: JDiff. Then there is KBC Great Music in Irish Houses and Sky Cat Laughs.
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18th August 2014
Reform more radical than ‘war on drugs’Shortcomings in the repressive-only approach is forcing a change of tactics
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15th August 2014
There is no safe level of smokingWe’ve heard the warnings and we know the dangers. Smoking most definitely kills.
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15th August 2014
Plain packaging works: Australia shows fastest decline in smoking rates in over 20 yearsOpinion: Ireland needs similar result if the Government’s policy to make the country tobacco free by 2025 is to be achieved
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15th August 2014
Legalising drugs is the only way to win this warThree years ago, the UN Global Commission on Drug Policy announced that the world had lost the long war against illegal drugs. Its 22 eminent members concluded that there remained only one feasible response: legalise the trade.
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14th August 2014
The end of the ‘war on drugs’?We are in the midst of a period of unprecedented debate within policy circles regarding addiction. David Lynch investigates new statistics and talks to academics and doctors
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14th August 2014
Tobacco producing countries will battle packs lawTobacco producing nations are expected to challenge Ireland’s move to outlaw branded tobacco packaging, the new junior jobs minister has been warned by his department.
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