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24th October 2013
‘Future bleak’ if alcohol link to sport not tackled
Children have a “very bleak future” if the Government is unable to take on the vested interests in the alcohol and sports industries, the country’s largest representative body of community drug projects has said.
23rd October 2013
Dublin Mayor wants mobile injection facility for addicts
Lord Mayor of Dublin Oisín Quinn said he favours the introduction of mobile clinics to allow drug addicts inject in private rather than on the street.
23rd October 2013
Christopher Snowden: Why our efforts to cut smoking have been a failure
In the eyes of the public health community, Ireland is the poster boy for tobacco control.
23rd October 2013
Doctors urge help for women seeking to stub out habit
Doctors specialising in care of mothers-to-be have called for greater access during pregnancy to smoking cessation programmes after an audit of baby deaths showed more than a sixth of the women who suffered perinatal loss were smokers.
23rd October 2013
Minimum alcohol pricing on way in bid to fight abuse
The introduction of a minimum price for alcohol will be the centrepiece of the Government’s national substance misuse strategy to be announced tomorrow.
23rd October 2013
Not setting date for alcohol sports ban ‘cowardice’
The Government has been accused of political cowardice for caving in to the drinks industry and not setting a date for the banning of alcohol sponsorship at sporting events.
23rd October 2013
What is the purpose of minimum pricing?
Why is the Government talking about alcohol prices again? The pricing changes being planned now are not aimed at generating revenue through excise duty but tackling the high levels of problem drinking in the State with a range of measures which – notably – include minimum pricing.
23rd October 2013
New strategy to take persistent beggars off streets of Dublin
Dublin’s 50 most persistent beggars are to be targeted for removal from the streets under a new initiative from the Garda and Dublin City Council.
23rd October 2013
Days of cheap drink coming to end in new alcohol strategy
The price of cheap bottles of vodka and low-cost cans of cider and lager is going to be jacked up under a government clampdown on alcohol.
22nd October 2013
Citywide Drugs Crisis Campaign Press release 22/10/2013
Government has abandoned our community by abandoning the National Drug Strategy.

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