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 New Minister of State with responsibility for the National Drugs Strategy
 Use of sedatives or tranquillisers and anti-depressants in Ireland
 Monitoring centre report reveals latest drug trends in Europe
 ‘Drug problems are too complex and dynamic for single magic bullet solutions’
 The first census of homeless persons in Ireland
 Probation Service annual report 2011
 NESC report commends city policing initiative
 Roadside drug testing
 MQI annual review 2011
 Taoiseach officially opens Riverbank Centre
 HSE publishes hepatitis C strategy
 The role of alcohol in rape cases in Ireland
 Prevalence of alcohol consumption and alcohol-related harm in Ireland
 Which talking therapies (counselling) work for drug users with alcohol problems?
 Mental health among homeless male hostel residents in Dublin
 Research on young people leaving state care in North Dublin
 From Drugnet Europe
 In brief
 Recent publications
 Upcoming events
 What makes for a ‘good’ drugs policy?
 Southern Regional Drugs Task Force stresses ‘humanistic’ approach
 Report of Alcohol Action Ireland conference ‘Time Please… For Change’
 Alcohol: increasing price can reduce harm and contribute to revenue collection
New Minister of State with responsibility for the National Drugs Strategy

 
Labour TD Mr Alex White succeeded Ms Róisín Shortall as Minister of State with responsibility for the National Drugs Strategy in September 2012.


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Use of sedatives or tranquillisers and anti-depressants in Ireland
by Justine Horgan, NACD, and Jean Long


 
The National Advisory Committee on Drugs (NACD) recently published Bulletin 6 in the series of reports on the 2010/11 general population survey on drug use in Ireland and Northern Ireland.1 The bulletin reports the prevalence of sedative or tranquilliser and anti-depressant use among adults aged 15–64 years.


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Monitoring centre report reveals latest drug trends in Europe
by Brian Galvin


 
The  European  Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) published its annual report 2012 on the drugs situation in Europe in November.1 According to the report, we may be entering a new era in which heroin will no longer play such a central role in Europe’s drugs problems. The number of new heroin users is declining in several countries, while access to substitution treatment for opioid (mostly heroin) users has risen.


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What makes for a ‘good’ drugs policy?
by Brigid Pike


In recent months a slew of documents outlining what makes for a ‘good’ drugs policy have appeared. Two sets of guidelines have emanated from the NGO sector, at EU and international level, and two from governmental sources – the Council of Europe and the US government. A study of the principles and criteria as summarised in the table below highlights the differing perspectives and priorities of the different entities.

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