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19th November 2013
SPECIAL REPORT, DAY 2:‘Methadone is as dangerous as heroin’Cork City’s best-known emergency consultant is not a fan of methadone, the substitution drug used to get addicts off heroin.
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19th November 2013
SPECIAL REPORT, DAY 2: Dedicated drug agency ‘needed to tackle heroin’Ireland should establish a Drugs Safety Agency, similar to the Road Safety Authority model, if officials are serious about slashing drug-related deaths and changing attitudes to drug-taking in this country, according to Cork’s top garda.
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18th November 2013
SPECIAL REPORT, DAY 1: Heroin epidemic: ‘Without divine intervention, we know how this ends’Janet’s son Simon died a year ago from a heroin overdose.
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18th November 2013
John Greene: Sense prevails but funding fight goes onAlcohol sponsorship exchanges show how effective Dáil can be, writes John Greene
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18th November 2013
SPECIAL REPORT DAY 1: The real story behind heroin useThe first time *Susan injected “one of the girls done it” for her.
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15th November 2013
A&E departments treat children for effects of alcoholFive hundred children ended up in A&E departments in Northern Ireland last year because they were so drunk.
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15th November 2013
One child in HSE system dies every fortnightMore than 70 vulnerable children and teens either in HSE care or who recently left the system have died since the start of 2010 — the equivalent of almost one fatality every fortnight.
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14th November 2013
Switch to e-cigs ‘could save millions of lives’Switching to e-cigarettes could save millions of smokers’ lives, a conference on the increasingly popular devices heard, though some experts warned more research on the health effects is needed.
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14th November 2013
Heroin users’ healing – how can we help?It’s time to gather precise data on the lives of opiate users, says Maeve Daly
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13th November 2013
Alcohol is not a solution in which we should expect problems to dissolveThere has been much debate and discussion in Ireland recently about intoxicating substances and our relationship with them. In the past few days attention has centred on cannabis but in previous weeks the focus was very much on our nation’s favourite drug: alcohol.