HRB National Drugs Library e-newsletter: volume 13, issue 9

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News

Plain packaging rules for cigarettes come into force today.

[Irish Examiner] (30 Sep 2017)

Simon Harris plans to unveil Public Health Alcohol Bill.

[breakingnews.ie] (29 Sep 2017)

Driving 'the morning after' can be dangerous.

[Irish Health] (29 Sep 2017)

Research shows impact of drugs and alcohol on health of homeless people.

[RTE News] (28 Sep 2017)

Drink-driving: tougher rules are welcome.

Editorial [Irish Times] (27 Sep 2017)

Increase in rate of HIV cases in Irish people aged over 50.

[thejournal.ie] Russell, Cliodhna (27 Sep 2017)

Debate Room: are proposed restrictions on alcohol advertising going too far?.

[thejournal.ie] (27 Sep 2017)

Alcohol & pregnancy: Ireland looks towards the future of infant mental health.

[Mental Daily] (27 Sep 2017)

Minister calls on gyms to play a role as 72,000 fake steroids seized.

[Irish Examiner] O'Keeffe, Cormac (26 Sep 2017)

Why time could be called on getting a free drink with your blowdry in salons.

[Independent.ie] O'Regan, Eilish (26 Sep 2017)

Canney threatens to oppose Ross's bill.

[Independent.ie] Doyle, Kevin (25 Sep 2017)

Feud gangs using drug addicts to get false passports.

[thejournal.ie] MacNamee, Garreth (25 Sep 2017)

Illegal prescription medicines worth over €850k seized.

[RTE News] (25 Sep 2017)

Toasting to success for the Alcohol Bill?,

[Medical Independent] Lynch, David (25 Sep 2017)

Seizures of illegal prescription drugs rise 233% in a year.

[Irish Times] Cullen, Paul (25 Sep 2017)

Scientologists’ Drug-Free World target Irish teenagers.

[irishcentral.com] (25 Sep 2017)

Overcoming addiction with sailing: 'It's a way of life I never knew existed and better than any drug'.

[thejournal.ie] Russell, Cliodhna (24 Sep 2017)

The medicinal cannabis bill passed through the Dáil last year, but now it's on the shelf.

[thejournal.ie] Fitzgerald, Cormac (24 Sep 2017)

Decriminalising drugs: could it work in Ireland?

[Irish Times] Gallagher, Conor (23 Sep 2017)

Drug Fentanyl 100 times more powerful than morphine is killer, warns Northern Ireland coroner.

[Belfast Telegraph] Leonard, Victoria (22 Sep 2017)

The Drinks Industry can have their ads but they can’t have Christmas too!.

[Alcohol Action Ireland] (22 Sep 2017)

Alcohol Bill "vital" say Emergency Department doctors.

[Medical Independent] (21 Sep 2017)

Government pledge to pass laws amid ‘hamstrung Dáil’ claims.

[Irish Examiner] O'Cionnaith, Fiachra (20 Sep 2017)

Training. Pathological gambling: forcing an answer out of the symbolic game.

[Merchants Quay] (20 Sep 2017)

Drug debt campaign needs funding.

[Dublin People] Gleeson, Jack (19 Sep 2017)

Warning over bad batch of drugs in Dublin.

[Irish Examiner] (18 Sep 2017)

Homeless organisation came across three overdoses on Dublin streets last night.

[thejournal.ie] MacNamee, Garreth (18 Sep 2017)

Editorial: Prisons: a lot done, more to do.

[Irish Times] (18 Sep 2017)

‘We marched on four dealers that night’: Dublin’s anti-drug wars.

[Irish Times] Freyne, Patrick (16 Sep 2017)

A doctor tries to lower barriers to methadone treatment.

[Dublin Inquirer] Neylon, Laoise (14 Sep 2017)

Seven million deaths were caused by tobacco use last year.

[thejournal.ie] Hosford, Paul (14 Sep 2017)

No 'magic drug circle' but gardaí will use 'discretion' outside city injection centres.

[thejournal.ie] MacNamee, Garreth (13 Sep 2017)

Ireland fares poorly on alcohol use, child sex abuse and suicide rate.

[thejournal.ie] Ryan, Orla (13 Sep 2017)

Irish Street Medicine Symposium 2017.

[UCD School of Medicine] (13 Sep 2017)

Over 500 seizures of injectable tanning drug since 2015.

[Irish Times] Gallagher, Conor (11 Sep 2017)

Watchdog to target discount and hardware stores for banned hazardous chemicals.

[thejournal.ie] (11 Sep 2017)

Alcohol a factor ‘in 85% of suicides’ of men aged over 40 in Cork.

[Irish Times] Roche, Barry (11 Sep 2017)

'A lot of questions about ketamine' - keeping people drug-safe at Electric Picnic's welfare tent.

[thejournal.ie] Brennan, Cianan 09 Sep 2017)

'So many people are taking drugs...it's not going to get rid of their problems' - Mother who became homeless due to addiction.

[Independent.ie] Molloy, Amy (09 Sep 2017)

Foetal damage 'is a hidden phenomenon in Ireland'.

[Independent.ie] Lynott, Laura (09 Sep 2017)

Homelessness 'making addiction crisis worse'.

[Independent.ie] Begley, Ian (08 Sep 2017)

Ireland has the third highest rate of FASD.

[Irish Medical Times] Shannon, June (07 Sep 2017)

PSNI set to adopt Dublin anti-gang project.

[Irish Examiner] O'Keeffe, Cormac (06 Sep 2017)

Consultants yet to seek licences for cannabis treatments.

[Irish Examiner] Ring, Evelyn (06 Sep 2017)

Fr McVerry: State failures mean people can't get clean from drugs.

[Independent.ie] Horan, Niamh (03 Sep 2017)

The ‘War on Drugs’ has failed, we must end this drain on resources.

McWilliams, David (03 Sep 2017)

HSE drug expert: We need to consider testing and amnesty bins for clubs and festivals.

[thejournal.ie] Brophy, Daragh (02 Sep 2017)

Editor's viewpoint: 'Anti-drug' gangsters a scourge in society.

[Belfast Telegraph] (01 Sep 2017)

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