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18th October 2010
Cannabis the drug of choice for university studentsCannabis, cocaine and ecstacy are the top three illegal drugs abused by students in one of our leading universities, according to a new study.
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18th October 2010
Is alcohol too cheap?Alcohol prices: Supermarkets are flooding the market with cheap alcohol, the result is that it now costs 50 per cent less to drink at home than it did in 1996.
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15th October 2010
Citywide to launch report on effects of cuts to community drug servicesCityWide Drugs Crisis Campaign has announced that they will be releasing a report on the effects of government cuts on community drug services.
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14th October 2010
Alcohol the key indicator of early sexual activityTeenage girls are knowledgeable about contraception and the effects of alcohol and other drugs on sexual behaviour but are less aware of the risks posed by sexually transmitted diseases.
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13th October 2010
School drugs event open to parents and studentsParents of youngsters attending Mullingar’s second level schools are to get the inside track on substance abuse at a special evening at the school later this month.
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13th October 2010
Social media is ‘normalising’ drunken behaviourThe increasing popularity of social media, such as video sharing and publishing photos online, is impacting on young people’s attitudes to alcohol, and in some cases, glorifying drunken behaviour, it has been claimed.
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13th October 2010
Dutch cabinet to further squeeze a declining ‘coffee shop’ industryDoes Holland’s relatively tolerant attitude towards cannabis – exemplified by “coffee shops”, where cannabis can be bought and smoked legally – mean that Dutch youngsters are more likely to use it, and then more likely to move on to something stronger? The answer appears to be no.
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12th October 2010
Drug-driving reaching an ‘alarming scale’The head of the Road Safety Authority has described the potential scale of drug-driving in Ireland as “alarming” as it emerged that 1,444 motorists tested positive for drugs last year.
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11th October 2010
New Drugs.ie feature: Alcohol use among the LGBT community in IrelandThe latest drugs.ie feature highlights the issue of [reported] higher levels of alcohol misuse among the LGBT community, compared with their heterosexual counterparts.
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11th October 2010
New steps to combat ‘drug driving’Gardaí are to receive new powers and training in the detection of drug driving as research shows drug driving in Ireland could be as serious a problem as drink driving.
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