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31st May 2010
Battle to get rid of ‘legal highs’ heats up
The crackdown on head shops is to intensify with a new study set to identify the ingredients in products still on sale.
31st May 2010
Dublin criminals had ‘war council’ meeting over head shops
A high-level meeting between several serious criminal gangs was held just before Christmas to plan how dealers would target head shops in arson attacks.
30th May 2010
Daily flood of addicts linked to crime surge
Drug treatment centres are located near our city’s tourist and shopping areas but efforts to move them face opposition, says Jim Cusack
30th May 2010
Head-shop drugs blamed for huge upsurge in teen violence and muggings
Gardai warn big players in ‘legal-high’ phenomenon may face charges.
30th May 2010
Mephedrone ‘did not kill teenagers’
Two teenagers whose deaths were linked to mephedrone had not taken the drug, it has been reported.
30th May 2010
Cocaine—the squalid truth
A 24-year-old man from Kilkenny suffers a massive heart attack as a direct result of taking cocaine. A 37-year-old from Cork dies from cardiac arrest after snorting cocaine laced with cattle wormer.
30th May 2010
Teenagers’ deaths were not caused by “legal high” mephedrone
Two teenagers whose deaths were linked to the “legal high” mephedrone, prompting politicians to rush out a contoversial ban, had not taken the drug, reports suggest.
28th May 2010
One in seven methadone users had taken head shop products
Fourteen per cent of methadone users also test positive for substances previously sold in head shops, new research has shown.
27th May 2010
Pills and Powders on Sale in Irish Head Shops Again
Has the recent government ban on certain substances previously sold in Head Shops in Ireland eradicated the sale of pills and powders from these outlets? Recent research and a visit to a head shop in Dublin City centre would suggest otherwise…
27th May 2010
Government study to quiz legal high users on ill-effects
The Government’s advisory group on drugs is to investigate the experience of hospital emergency departments & treating patients suffering ill-effects from using head shop substances, as well as question users of the legal highs.

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