News
RSS-
28th November 2018
Sister of tragic ‘N Bomb’ teenager Alex Ryan creates emergency response cards to help young peopThe 18-year-old, from Cork, died after consuming a synthetic drug at a house party on January 23, 2016
-
27th November 2018
Arrests for drunkenness rise sharply as economy improvesArrests for drunkenness rise sharply as economy improves
-
26th November 2018
Alcohol-related liver disease hospital admissions in Ireland soar in ten-year periodAlcohol-related liver disease hospital admissions in Ireland soar in ten-year period
-
22nd November 2018
Breaking the drink link: Why today’s students stay soberFigures show that young people are turning away from alcohol. John Meagher met the generation who’d rather have a coffee - and hears why there’s still a way to go
-
22nd November 2018
Hepatitis C sufferers to be offered community-based programmesNational treatment programme to expand to reach more of the 30,000 infected with virus
-
21st November 2018
How ‘fixing rooms’ are saving the lives of drug addictsAcross Europe, facilities that offer medical supervision for addicts are dramatically reducing drug-related deaths
-
20th November 2018
How do you stop drinking?Author and journalist Suzanne Harrington has been sober for nearly 13 years. She looks at the top five treatments available for alcohol abuse
-
19th November 2018
Listen back to Dr Gerry McCarney on Today with Sean O’RourkeThe HSE Alcohol Programme’s new booklet
-
19th November 2018
[Health Service Executive] Launch of ‘Alcohol and drugs: a parent’s guide’. (19 Nov 2018)Today, (Monday, 19th November 2018), over a cup of tea at The Vintage Teapot on Dublin’s Cathedral Street, parents and their teenage children joined the HSE’s Alcohol Programme to launch Alcohol and Drugs: A Parent’s Guide.
-
19th November 2018
Bobby Smyth: ‘Parents, don’t teach underage kids how to drink’Psychiatrist Bobby Smyth is clear that alcohol and youngsters are a dangerous mix and offers guidelines on how to tackle the issue