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# Ana Liffey Drug Project

Last year
2023
Crack cocaine 'hit Limerick city like snow', drug users say
8 Feb 2023
34.5k
29
All time
Covid housing supports allowed drug users to 'better engage with treatment services'
Updated 1 Nov 2021
14.6k
3
'They smashed every one of her windows': Parents of drug users at high risk of drug threats in Dublin's inner city
26 Jan 2021
51.0k
46
Opinion: The government's new drug policy will do nothing to end the stigmatisation of drug users
Marcus Keane
7 Aug 2019
13.7k
40
'I was being punished for something I had no control over': Rachael Keogh 13 years after her addiction made national news
6 Apr 2019
144k
57
Majority of Irish people believe drug users should be dealt with by health services, not courts
25 Feb 2019
14.3k
61
Drug users in Dublin consuming entire trays of prescription tablets
22 Feb 2019
37.3k
29
What can Irish cities learn from the response to drug use in New Orleans?
Tony Duffin
6 Nov 2018
16.5k
4
'Life is so much more chaotic': A day on addiction outreach in Limerick city
22 Sep 2018
18.3k
13
'They're asking about MDMA, LSD and cocaine': Keeping people drug-safe at Electric Picnic
1 Sep 2018
22.5k
29
Drug outreach services to be provided at Electric Picnic campsites
22 Aug 2018
10.5k
11
Fianna Fáil tweet about HSE being on crack 'not representative of party policy'
9 Aug 2018
15.8k
23
Ex-Assistant Commissioner on drug debate: 'Our young people are criminalised, deprived of life chances'
13 Jun 2018
16.3k
28
Crack-cocaine use surging in Dublin city centre
4 Jun 2018
44.7k
51
'A lot of questions about ketamine' - keeping people drug-safe at Electric Picnic's welfare tent
9 Sep 2017
33.4k
26
HSE drug expert: We need to consider testing and amnesty bins for clubs and festivals
2 Sep 2017
14.9k
41
'It takes me away from this world for the day': Life as a homeless drug-user on the streets of Dublin
13 May 2017
31.6k
64
'A great day for drug policy in Ireland': Supervised injecting centres get go-ahead
10 May 2017
25.1k
95
Warning to drug users over opioid 10,000 times more potent than morphine
10 May 2017
17.0k
22
Fears 'risky new drug trend' could develop amid crackdown on prescription drugs
5 May 2017
17.7k
11
Crack-cocaine and synthetic cannabinoids: Concern over new drug trends in Dublin
27 Dec 2016
28.1k
18
It's planned the first supervised injecting facility will open in 2017. So how did we get here?
Tony Duffin
24 Dec 2016
283
34
'People die in toilets, people die in urine-soaked stairwells'
30 Nov 2016
12.0k
24
New HIV cases in injecting drug users had a big rise in 2015
15 Jun 2016
8.0k
7
Poll: Should there be a minister solely focused on tackling drugs?
15 May 2016
14.7k
64
The needles on the cobbles are nothing new - but the human excrement is shocking
1 Dec 2015
59.3k
101
Drug-using students urged to be more careful when taking pills
23 Oct 2015
18.5k
70
"The stereotype of overdose is a person with a needle in their arm"
31 Aug 2015
13.8k
24
Just yards from the lattés and those craft beer bars ... dozens upon dozens of needles
7 Jun 2015
42.7k
94
'Hugely worrying' upsurge in violence among Dublin rough-sleepers
16 May 2015
18.6k
39
Is crystal meth on the rise? One Councillor says it's like Breaking Bad out there
11 Jan 2015
36.8k
33
Many of us will celebrate (or cope) this Christmas by using drink or drugs to excess
Tony Duffin
24 Dec 2014
150
22