# addiction - Thursday 16 May, 2019
The Dublin-based addiction centre treated 1,350 people in 2018 and is now planning an expansion to Limerick.
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# addiction - Wednesday 8 May, 2019
The President of the Association of Garda Superintendents said there are constant challenges for gardaí in dealing with drugs and organised crime.
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# addiction - Tuesday 30 April, 2019
New research found the local drug economy – unlike precarious work – recruits young people by incentivising and enticing them.
# addiction - Wednesday 20 March, 2019
There has been a decrease in the number of alcohol dependency cases being treated in recent years, but an increase in their severity.
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# addiction - Monday 18 March, 2019
The trust receives funding from the gambling industry and will be run by a board which includes two former junior ministers.
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# addiction - Saturday 16 March, 2019
A plan to open a medically supervised injecting facility has been met with fierce local opposition.
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# addiction - Friday 8 March, 2019
Of the total number, 549 were male and 187 were female.
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# addiction - Wednesday 27 February, 2019
The proportion of problem gamblers in Ireland is far lower than in Northern Ireland, according to data from the Health Research Board.
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# addiction - Friday 15 February, 2019
The HSE has provided figures on the age and geographic breakdown of some of those who enter treatment for gambling addiction.
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# addiction - Thursday 14 February, 2019
I thought if I could just eat and be thin I’d be OK, writes a member of Addictive Eaters Anonymous.
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# addiction - Monday 4 February, 2019
The HSE has admitted its own figures don’t come close to painting a picture of the extent of problem gambling in Ireland.
# addiction - Monday 28 January, 2019
Parents of addicts have remortgaged their homes in some cases to pay off drug debts.
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# addiction - Sunday 27 January, 2019
Mental illness and addiction are interlinked so why are people who suffer from both routinely excluded from services, asks Senator Lynn Ruane.
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# addiction - Friday 4 January, 2019
Karen Docherty is calling for stronger support systems to be put in place for families affected by suicide.
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# addiction - Tuesday 1 January, 2019
To help answer, this is the second week that Dear Fifi called upon the experts at the Rutland Centre.
# addiction - Friday 12 October, 2018
Addiction does not discriminate.
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# addiction - Friday 5 October, 2018
31-year-old Samantha Walsh was beaten to death in April 2017.
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# addiction - Friday 14 September, 2018
Merchants Quay chief: “It’s an understatement at this point to say we have a homelessness crisis”
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A significant proportion of the population have experimented with drugs and for some this has been life-changing.
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# addiction - Sunday 2 September, 2018
As the Rutland Centre turns 40, some of the first patients through its doors shared their experiences with TheJournal.ie.
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The Rutland Centre is seeing shifts in the people it treats, and is emphasising how anyone can recover from addiction on its 40th anniversary.
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# addiction - Saturday 1 September, 2018
One treatment expert said he is concerned, in particular, about young people who can very quickly gamble all of their money away online.
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# addiction - Sunday 26 August, 2018
“Fortnite’s peak may be behind us,” a market tracker said this week.
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# addiction - Monday 20 August, 2018
She’s now second favourite to win.
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# addiction - Monday 30 July, 2018
There’s a sharper focus on sports adverts and the detrimental effect they could have on young people.
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He said that he was concerned when he read some of the cases of gambling among sporting athletes.
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# addiction - Saturday 28 July, 2018
“It started recreationally, just dabbling, and then it went from there. First it would just be at the weekend, then it started to spill over into the week.”
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# addiction - Sunday 22 July, 2018
There has been an increase in use of the drug since the start of last year.
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# addiction - Tuesday 17 July, 2018
In 2016 there were more than 1,000 drug treatment cases where cocaine was the main substance reported.
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# addiction - Sunday 15 July, 2018
It comes as part of the addiction centre’s 40th birthday celebrations.
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At a hearing last month Boyle asked Judge O’Connor if he could be sent back to custody because he was struggling and finding it difficult on bail.
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# addiction - Wednesday 11 July, 2018
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Christy Dignam had some strong words in relation to bankers and homelessness when we sat down with him.
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# addiction - Sunday 1 July, 2018
Now we can finally call this issue as we see it, writes Stella O’Malley.
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# addiction - Saturday 23 June, 2018
They get away with it, because we only criminalise the poor, writes Aodhán Ó Ríordáin.
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# addiction - Monday 11 June, 2018
A middle-class family brought to the brink by a father’s cocaine use speak about an addiction that cross all demographics.
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# addiction - Sunday 27 May, 2018
A new US study found workers were three times more likely to quit if there was a financial incentive.
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# addiction - Saturday 26 May, 2018
Many homeless people are reluctant to seek medical treatment, for a number of reasons.
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# addiction - Sunday 29 April, 2018
Tony Duffin the CEO of Ana Liffey Drug Project reflects on 25 years of helping people who use drugs.
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# addiction - Thursday 29 March, 2018
Decriminalising possession can instinctively seem like a bad idea. We need to change public perception, writes Tony Duffin.
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# addiction - Saturday 24 March, 2018
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Dublin boxer Keane McMahon talks to The42 about how a gambling addiction almost derailed his professional boxing career, just as it was starting.
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