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This study confirms that alcohol is a significant factor in road deaths. Further targeted action including a reduction in the legal limit is required [Irish Medical Journal]
Drugs experts and frontline workers are set to present the Government with a detailed submission outlining concerns about shops which are selling legal forms of drugs [Irish Examiner]
Not one, not two – but three major reports in the past two months have shown the chronic and harmful effects that alcohol is having on our society [Irish Examiner]
Irish women are turning to drink more and more, without thinking of the consequences [Independent, Ireland]
Nearly 40 drug rehabilitation projects are having their funding axed, and 11 face closure, a Dáil committee was told yesterday [Irish Examiner]
The government’s budget “will only deepen the country’s drug crisis”, claimed the CityWide Drugs Crisis Campaign Coordinator [City Wide, Ireland]
This report presents the main findings on alcohol consumption among Irish adults from the 2007 Survey of Lifestyle, Attitudes and Nutrition (SLÁN 2007) in Ireland [Department of Health & Children, Ireland]
An analysis of data from the 2007 Slán lifestyle study suggests some four in 10 women are drinking excessively over an extended period, with seven in 10 men also at risk from this pattern of alcohol intake [Irish Times]
If it helps to shame this Government into protecting society, last week’s report on binge drinking by the Health Research Board (HRB) will have been worthwhile [Irish Times, UK]
The analysis presented in this paper is the first national report on non-poisoning deaths among drug users in Ireland [Health Research Board, Ireland]
A presentation by Rick Lines, Deputy Director of the International Harm Reduction Association at the Irish Needle Exchange Forum conference in Killarney, November 5th 2009 [drugs.ie]
A presentation by Shane Butler, Trinity College Dublin, at the Irish Needle Exchange Forum conference in Killarney, November 5th 2009 [drugs.ie]
Gardai are to be given powers to help secure convictions for drug driving under a new Road Traffic Bill to be published shortly [Irish Examiner]
Heroin has replaced cannabis as the second highest treated drug in the south east, Health Service Executive figures show [Irish Examiner]
Treatment services need continuing support and funding but have been, in the prison context, transformed – for the better – beyond recognition in recent years [Irish Times]
Almost three out of five young people attending one of the south’s largest addiction services are using heroin, compared to almost none three years ago [Irish Examiner]
Two years after they set about eliminating drugs from Irish jails, prison authorities have as good as admitted defeat [Times, UK]
The funding of a Government-led drug programme by a charity operating in developing countries raises serious questions about future drug funding, a leading voluntary drug service has said [The Irish Examiner]
Merchants Quay Ireland is a national voluntary agency providing services for homeless people and for drug users [Merchants’ Quay, Ireland]
The purpose of the papers is to explore women’s alcohol and drug misuse, focusing on gender differences and highlighting in particular the effects substance misuse has on women’s health [Women’s Health Council, Ireland]
