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# Addiction

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Wellness Wednesday: You can beat your addiction, even in lockdown
Report highlights increase in deaths involving street tablets in Ireland
'Addiction doesn't stop during a pandemic, it gets worse': Methadone waiting lists virtually eliminated amid overdose fears
Cork man who overcame years of heroin addiction graduating with criminology Masters
'I was a chronic, homeless, alcoholic - I'd be turning up at the races drunk'
'If someone goes under, call 999': Addiction expert warns about GHB after more overdoses
FactFind: '1ml is euphoric, 2ml and you go under': Number of G overdoses increases by 75%
The Explainer: Why is chemsex in the news in Ireland and the UK?
Lynn Ruane: Sport is part of the solution to address young men's mental health
Lynn Ruane: 'You can't treat addiction like a business - and people with addiction like objects'
Former drugs minister says injecting centre plan has 'been allowed to die' by government
West of Ireland is seeing higher demand for addiction treatment, says Coolmine centre
Senior gardaí say use of term 'recreational drugs' helps normalise drug abuse
Drug dealing seen as 'more attractive' way to earn money for some young Irish people
Cannabis and cocaine are most common drugs used by people seeking treatment for alcohol abuse
'Action is needed now': New charity set up to fund gambling addiction services
'We've seen people die, people beaten up horrifically': This primary school doesn't want an injecting centre 300m from its front door
736 people died directly as a result of drugs in 2016
There are at least 40,000 problem gamblers in Ireland
90% of gambling addicts treated by HSE are young men
Opinion: 'Food was a drug for me'
'Not drifting towards a gambling crisis, we're in the middle of one': 800 addiction cases treated by HSE
Dealers make violent threats against 12-year-olds over cannabis debt
Opinion: Pat was refused mental health services because of his addiction - now he's dead
PODCAST: 'I lost two sons to suicide - I want people to know it's okay to have problems'
Dear Fifi: I'm worried that my boyfriend enjoys taking drugs too much - what can I do?
People should remember Steve Carrell's words the next time we lose a celebrity to addiction
Man jailed for life for murdering woman he met in an addiction treatment centre
Homeless and addiction charity says 'Ireland is facing a deepening social crisis'
'The invisible line': When a recreational drug habit becomes an addiction
'I went downhill very fast... but the thought of a drink has barely crossed my mind now for 37 years'
'I have seen the increase in cocaine and alcohol addiction with the return of money. It's frightening'
Ireland's gambling epidemic: 'Find a corner and you'll be left alone 'til you're penniless'
'Fortnite' fever may be cooling - or it could be that the kids are just on their holidays
People are praising the Carlow Rose for bringing the Rose of Tralee into the 21st Century
Poll: Do you think gambling ads should be banned from sports?
Michael D Higgins wants gambling ads banned from sport
'I couldn’t do without cocaine, couldn’t face talking to people without a few lines in me'
High uptake of sterile crack pipes in response to surge in use of drug in Dublin
HSE launches new advice campaign as cocaine use returns to Celtic Tiger levels