# drug-addiction - Sunday 11 July, 2021
# End Prohibition
# End Prohibition
Youth worker Eoin Lynagh is part of a group calling for an end to prohibition.
# drug-addiction - Wednesday 19 February, 2020
# Decriminalisation
# Decriminalisation
Dr Austin O’Carroll says decriminalisation would be a way of taking responsibility for the vicious effects of inequality.
# drug-addiction - Sunday 15 December, 2019
# Drug Addiction
# Drug Addiction
We cannot have a National Drug Strategy that prefers the drug court to a health-focused approach.
# drug-addiction - Wednesday 22 May, 2019
# Drug Addiction
# Drug Addiction
The health minister plans to have the medicinal cannabis access scheme up and running in the summer.
# drug-addiction - Friday 4 January, 2019
# Left Behind
# Left Behind
Karen Docherty is calling for stronger support systems to be put in place for families affected by suicide.
# drug-addiction - Monday 23 July, 2018
# Drug Addiction
# Drug Addiction
The figure of 76 represents a drop in the comparable figure for 2016, when there were a total of 92 discharges.
# drug-addiction - Sunday 10 June, 2018
# Decriminalisation
# Decriminalisation
A town hall meeting will be held this week in Dublin on the subject of looking into a health-led approach towards drug use in Ireland.
# drug-addiction - Tuesday 27 February, 2018
# Addiction
# Addiction
Depression is often the root cause of drug addiction and abuse does not help.
# drug-addiction - Saturday 14 October, 2017
# Drug Addiction
From The Daily Edge
# Drug Addiction
“It’s OK to come out and say that I’m not embarrassed.”
# Drug Addiction
# Drug Addiction
“It’s OK to come out and say that I’m not embarrassed.”
# drug-addiction - Sunday 27 August, 2017
# Addiction
# Addiction
Researchers found the fish were willing to work harder and even enter risky conditions in order to get their fix.
# drug-addiction - Sunday 13 August, 2017
# Addiction
# Addiction
The baby boy’s death was not reported to be connected to his mother’s drug use, but a report has criticised the seven-week delay in making contact with the woman.
# drug-addiction - Wednesday 9 August, 2017
# Children's Court
# Children's Court
The 17-year-old boy is accused of assaulting a staff member and causing €54,000 worth of criminal damage.
# drug-addiction - Wednesday 12 July, 2017
# Drug Addiction
# Drug Addiction
Babies with drug withdrawal symptoms undergo six to eight week of rehabilitation.
# drug-addiction - Friday 12 May, 2017
# Justice For Dara
# Justice For Dara
At a vigil in Dublin this evening, her brother Sean called for a change in how the State treats addicts.
# drug-addiction - Saturday 17 December, 2016
# Drug Addiction
# Drug Addiction
The problem is particularly bad in rural areas.
# drug-addiction - Tuesday 22 November, 2016
# Humans Of Dublin
# Humans Of Dublin
Ireland’s first supervised injection centre could be up and running by the end of 2017.
# drug-addiction - Wednesday 24 August, 2016
# Factcheck
# Factcheck
Sinn Féin TD Seán Crowe recently made some alarming claims on this issue. FactCheck puts them under scrutiny.
# drug-addiction - Thursday 9 June, 2016
# Coolmine Therapeutic Community
# Coolmine Therapeutic Community
The chairman of a drug treatment programme said that the government needed to give more urgency to the housing crisis.
# drug-addiction - Saturday 30 January, 2016
# Drug Addiction
# Drug Addiction
Paul started snorting heroin aged 18. What followed was over 20 years of serious drug abuse before he finally decided to get clean.
# drug-addiction - Friday 24 April, 2015
# Scott County Indiana
# Scott County Indiana
From 2009-2013, Scott County, Indiana had three HIV infections. There have been 142 since January.
# drug-addiction - Wednesday 15 April, 2015
# Heroin
# Heroin
Jonathan O’Brien’s brother is battling drug addiction.
# drug-addiction - Tuesday 6 January, 2015
# Hope
# Hope
John turned his life around after drug addiction.
# drug-addiction - Sunday 2 November, 2014
# Addiction
# Addiction
Anne’s son has been battling addiction for 27 years.
# drug-addiction - Friday 3 October, 2014
# Addiction
# Addiction
The Director of the Ana Liffey Drug Project, Tony Duffin said a recent surge in hallucinogenic stimulants has also made addicts’ behaviour somewhat more challenging lately.
# drug-addiction - Thursday 24 July, 2014
# Peaches
# Peaches
Compassion for a fellow human being should not change just because a poor soul happened to be an addict.
# drug-addiction - Friday 2 August, 2013
# Addiction
# Addiction
Researchers said that knowing this detail may help identify new treatments for addicts.
# drug-addiction - Tuesday 2 July, 2013
# Opinion
# Opinion
I dabbled with drugs on a social basis and thought I was in control; but that was before trying crystal meth. The drug stripped away everything I believed about myself as a person, exposing me to dangers and tragedies I would never have imagined.
# drug-addiction - Saturday 29 December, 2012
# Pakistan
# Pakistan
The deaths have all come in the last four days, with most of the fatalities thought to be drug addicts seeking a fix.
# drug-addiction - Tuesday 2 October, 2012
# Need To Know
# Need To Know
The things we learned, loved and shared today.
# Drug Addiction
# Drug Addiction
Coolmine Therapeutic Centre says it urgently needs €100,000 from the State in order to keep its mother and child facilities for drug addicts open.
# drug-addiction - Friday 29 July, 2011
# Opinion
# Opinion
The singer’s meltdowns were very public, but few people understand the reality of addiction, writes recovered drug user Brendan Magee.
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