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30th June 2014
Dangerous drinking charted like never before underlines failures of alcohol policyModeration in drinking is something too few Irish people have achieved.
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30th June 2014
Sober Ireland: What’s it like to not drink in Ireland?This week, Ireland will spend €50 million on alcohol.
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30th June 2014
Tá siad ag teacht – how the advertisers convinced us to double our drinkingThe figures, when they were released on Monday, made for stark reading: 1.35 million of us are consuming “harmful” quantities of alcohol while 177,000 of us are dependent drinkers, according to findings from the Health Research Board.
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30th June 2014
Methadone: the ‘government drug’The State is official opiate supplier to 10,000 people. Methadone stabilises, and sometimes even saves, the lives of heroin users, but many are in their second decade of dependency
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27th June 2014
Majority of youths back regulation of cannabisNearly six out of 10 young people in Ireland believe the sale of cannabis should be regulated, according to a European survey.
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27th June 2014
Reilly calls for packet of 20 cigarettes to cost €20Minister for Health James Reilly has called for the price of cigarettes to be increased to €1 each or €20 a pack, more than twice the current price.
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27th June 2014
Drink abuse no longer minority issueThe abuse of alcohol can no longer be “dismissed” as a problem suffered by a minority of drinkers, according to Alex White, the junior health minister.
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26th June 2014
Why restricting alcohol sponsorship in sport makes senseAndy Warhol once observed that people like to believe time changes things – whereas in reality we have to make changes ourselves. It’s short-sighted to wait for the passage of years to do the heavy lifting for us.
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25th June 2014
Three-quarters of homeless people attending service overdosed in past yearA homeless support service in Limerick city is experiencing drug overdose levels far higher than recorded elsewhere, research shows.
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25th June 2014
Government given go-ahead to ban 7,000 cigarette vending machines in pubsThe Government has been given the go ahead to ban 7,000 cigarette vending machines and outlaw the sale of e-cigarettes to under 18 year olds.
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