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8th April 2014
Minimum alcohol pricing can bring our long-suffering pubs back to lifeMore than 1,300 pubs have called last orders in the past decade in Ireland, but those in the industry believe the trade can be saved.
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8th April 2014
Cork treatment centre trains addicts in resuscitation skills in effort to prevent overdose deathsA Cork treatment centre is training people who are addicted to drugs and alcohol in resuscitation skills in a bid to prevent death from overdose.
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8th April 2014
Tackling drug abuse one generation at a timeEdel is a child of her time and place – growing up in Dublin’s north inner city during the late 1970s and 1980s when a heroin epidemic hijacked a whole generation.
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7th April 2014
New Pilot Primary Healthcare Service for Marginalised Groups opens in LimerickA new pilot primary healthcare service for marginalised groups has opened in Limerick as part of an innovative model of research in primary care. The aim of the project is to improve access to primary health care for groups such as the homeless, drug users, travellers, migrants and others who have difficulties in accessing and availing of primary care services.
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7th April 2014
Fun you can remember: DCU’s Sober SocAoife Bennett tells us about one of DCU’s newest societies: Sober Soc
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7th April 2014
Why drug users should be decriminalisedOpinion: Drug dealing and drug taking on the street has become a frightening public health issue
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5th April 2014
€2M Cross-Border Research Project into Codeine Addiction Launched at WITLeading figures from pharmacies and colleges in South Africa, the UK and Ireland were in Waterford Institute of Technology (WIT) today to launch a major €2 million research project into codeine use, misuse and dependence.
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4th April 2014
The voice of a child living with parental alcoholismOne in 11 children in Ireland are living in families adversely affected by alcohol.
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4th April 2014
40% rise in methadone clients over the decadeIn excess of 9,500 clients received methadone maintenance treatment in 2013 — an increase of almost 40 per cent from levels in 2003 when the programme commenced, IMT reports.
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4th April 2014
Oz sales fail to prove plain cigarette packs workNo hard retail evidence has emerged in Australia to show that the introduction of plain packaging for cigarettes is worth copying by other countries.
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