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6th June 2014
Taskforce meets over boy jabbed with needleA drugs taskforce met in Cork yesterday to discuss how best to tackle the city’s growing heroin crisis which saw a little boy jabbed by an addict’s needle he found discarded in his school yard.
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6th June 2014
HSE to ‘name and shame’ premises flouting smoking banThe HSE is stepping up its campaign to stop shops selling tobacco to minors and plans to “name and shame” businesses flouting the smoking ban.
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5th June 2014
From the UK: Cannabis ‘can alter shape of sperm’Smoking cannabis can reduce a man’s fertility by altering the size and shape of his sperm, research has shown.
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4th June 2014
Launch of addiction nurses networking groupA group of Nurses working in addictions in Ireland have been in contact informally and have expressed an interest in setting up a professional focus / networking group.
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4th June 2014
Survey: Irish teens are among top cocaine users in EUIrish schoolchildren are among the highest cocaine and cannabis users in the EU, according to a international survey.
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3rd June 2014
Are e-cigarettes the answer?Dublin taxi driver Bernard Fitzsimons, who is 56, gave up smoking a year ago, after taking up e-cigarettes. He smoked about 10 packets a week, but went down to three cigarettes a day and then gave them up altogether.
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2nd June 2014
Mixed messages about lethal drugsOpinion: Time for warnings to help young people stay safe.
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31st May 2014
The Sobriety Diaries: What I learned in one month without alcoholIn early May, a ‘normal Irish drinker’ undertook a minor social experiment: to give up drink for a month and write about it. Now it’s over. So is she getting drunk tonight?
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30th May 2014
Opinion: The first step to fixing Ireland’s alcohol problem? Fight back against the drinks industrAlcohol kills about 3.3 million people every year, or 5.9 per cent of all deaths globally, a new report by the World Health Organisation notes. It is also linked to over 200 disease and injury conditions and is associated, for example, with liver cirrhosis, cancers, and alcohol dependence.
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30th May 2014
E-cigarettes could save millions of lives, WHO toldA group of 53 leading scientists has warned the World Health Organisation not to classify e-cigarettes as tobacco products, arguing that doing so would jeopardise a major opportunity to slash disease and deaths caused by smoking.
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