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3rd November 2011
Irish Sports Council releases anti-doping Android app
The Irish Sports Council has released its anti-doping app for Android smartphones, letting athletes check if their medications are compliant with anti-doping regulations.
3rd November 2011
Irish Sports Council releases anti-doping Android app
The Irish Sports Council has released its anti-doping app for Android smartphones, letting athletes check if their medications are compliant with anti-doping regulations.
3rd November 2011
Drug funding to remain ‘limited’
Funding for drug prevention services will have to be spent in the optimum way over the coming years as resources are set to remain tight,Minister State at the Department of Health Róisín Shortall warned today.
3rd November 2011
HSE Supports National Drug Conference
DRUG INTERVENTIONS: What Works?
3rd November 2011
Drug and Alcohol Awareness Week highlights Mayo’s plight
Drug and Alcohol Awareness Week highlights Mayo’s plight, aims to tackle issue
3rd November 2011
Addicts’ families can get support
Pat Herlihy spent years sitting at the front window of his home or driving around the streets of Cork looking for his daughter.
3rd November 2011
Minister Shatter launches review of voluntary code for sale and display of alcohol products
The Minister for Justice, Equality and Defence, Mr Alan Shatter, T.D., today launched a review of the voluntary Code of Practice for the display and sale of alcohol in supermarkets, convenience stores and similar mixed trading outlets.
2nd November 2011
Cabinet sanctions banning of 10 additional ‘legal highs’
The cabiinet has approved the placing of 10 more so-called “legal highs” under the Misuse of Drugs Acts.
2nd November 2011
Doctor says alcohol implicated in 45 per cent of all suicides
The founder of the Irish Association of Suicidology, Dr John Connolly, has said teenage suicide tends to be a more impulsive act, and that alcohol can lead to an increase in that impulsivity.
2nd November 2011
Alcohol a major factor in failure of rape cases
A major reason why the Director of Public Prosecutions does not prosecute in alleged rape cases is because the complainant is unable to recall the alleged offence or the details of it as a result of intoxication.

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