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#Drug Addiction
# drug-addiction - Wednesday 19 February, 2020
Opinion: It's time to get real about heroin addiction. It's time to decriminalise this drug
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
Lynn Ruane: Drug courts are not the solution to Ireland's drug problem
We cannot have a National Drug Strategy that prefers the drug court to a health-focused approach.
# drug-addiction - Wednesday 22 May, 2019
Harris says there are no plans to legalise cannabis in Ireland
The health minister plans to have the medicinal cannabis access scheme up and running in the summer.
# drug-addiction - Friday 4 January, 2019
PODCAST: 'I lost two sons to suicide - I want people to know it's okay to have problems'
Karen Docherty is calling for stronger support systems to be put in place for families affected by suicide.
# drug-addiction - Monday 23 July, 2018
76 hospital discharges of newborns with drug withdrawal symptoms last year
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
Should Ireland get rid of criminal penalties for drug possession? It has been successful elsewhere
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
'You junkie, you addict' - How stigma can prevent drug users getting the help they need
Depression is often the root cause of drug addiction and abuse does not help.
# drug-addiction - Saturday 14 October, 2017
Dublin footballer Philly McMahon spoke about his brother's death on the Late Late and it was powerful television
“It’s OK to come out and say that I’m not embarrassed.”
'An opponent taunted me about his overdose' - Dublin footballer Philly McMahon on his brother's death
“It’s OK to come out and say that I’m not embarrassed.”
# drug-addiction - Sunday 27 August, 2017
Scientists are using painkiller-addicted fish to develop new treatments for addicts
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
Social work action 'unacceptably slow' in case of heroin user whose newborn died
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
Teen accused of causing €50k damage at Oberstown young offenders centre
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
92 hospital discharges of newborns with drug withdrawal symptoms last year
Babies with drug withdrawal symptoms undergo six to eight week of rehabilitation.
# drug-addiction - Friday 12 May, 2017
'Sleep well, starling': Family and friends gather to remember activist Dara Quigley
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
There's been a surge in the number of US babies born with heroin withdrawal symptoms
The problem is particularly bad in rural areas.
# drug-addiction - Tuesday 22 November, 2016
'When there is somewhere safe for people to go and inject they will use it - I will use it'
Ireland’s first supervised injection centre could be up and running by the end of 2017.
# drug-addiction - Wednesday 24 August, 2016
FactCheck: Are there fewer gardaí dealing with a growing drugs problem?
Sinn Féin TD Seán Crowe recently made some alarming claims on this issue. FactCheck puts them under scrutiny.
# drug-addiction - Thursday 9 June, 2016
People coming out of drug treatment programmes are relapsing because of the lack of housing
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
"I had a 14-day detox that sent me into horrible withdrawals... but I still went back to heroin"
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
The shocking story of the rise of HIV in one rural American community
From 2009-2013, Scott County, Indiana had three HIV infections. There have been 142 since January.
# drug-addiction - Wednesday 15 April, 2015
'I lost the rag to make Joan Burton wake up'
Jonathan O’Brien’s brother is battling drug addiction.
# drug-addiction - Tuesday 6 January, 2015
'The morning my father was buried in Dublin, I was doing drugs down an alley in London'
John turned his life around after drug addiction.
# drug-addiction - Sunday 2 November, 2014
Mother of drug addict explains how support group 'made me feel like I wasn't the only one heartbroken'
Anne’s son has been battling addiction for 27 years.
# drug-addiction - Friday 3 October, 2014
Dublin's drug situation hasn't gotten worse, it's just 'shifted to other areas'
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
Opinion: The sudden death of a young woman is not any less tragic for her being an addict
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
Researchers discover how the brain 'learns' cocaine addiction
Researchers said that knowing this detail may help identify new treatments for addicts.
# drug-addiction - Tuesday 2 July, 2013
Column: Meth is not glamorous – and nobody is immune to the tragedies it brings
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
Toxic cough syrup kills 24 people in 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
The Evening Fix…now with added tomato sauce
The things we learned, loved and shared today.
Drug addiction treatment centre facing closure
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
Column: Amy Winehouse was an addict – and I know how that feels
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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Poll: Would you go to a socially-distanced concert?
CONCERTS AND MANY other events have, of course, been cancelled during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Images of a socially-distanced concert in England were widely shared during the week.
Fans at the Sam Fender concert at the Virgin Money Unity Arena, a pop-up venue in Gosforth Park, Newcastle, watched the outdoor concert in groups of up to five people from 500 separate raised metal platforms.
Promoters described the event as the world’s first socially-distanced gig. Some people thought the layout looked great, while others were not so sure.
We want to know: Would you go to a socially-distanced concert?
Poll Results:
Yes (3745)
No (3139)
I'm not sure (502)
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Dr Anthony O'Connor: 'The rhetoric of “all being in it together” is dead'
By Dr Anthony O'Connor - @Antcon7062
Open Letter from Ireland's psychologists: 'Direct Provision is causing untold psychological harm'
By Psychologists for Social Change Ireland
“As a country we must do better,” according to about 150 signatories.
What we can learn from the world's 'Blue Zones' - where people regularly live into their 90s and 100s
By Professor Ciaran O’Boyle
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