News
• Doubt over minimum price plan for alcohol.
• Gun feuds rise while cocaine use falls.
• Doctor warns of big rise in use of Valium.
• Expert: Introducing teenagers to drink at home is bad idea.
• Advice for parents on talking to teenagers about alcohol.
• Minister announces changes to drugs task forces.
• Gangs use Luas and children to deal drugs.
• Self-harm in young could be influenced by seasons.
• 13% have travelled with over-the-limit driver within last year.
• Violence blights flagship project as teens battle over drugs trade.
• Customs drug hauls treble in just a year to €63m.
• Drug to curb alcohol dependence gets go-ahead.
• Driving under the influence of drugs, alcohol and medicines. New EMCDDA report reveals risks of substance use behind the wheel.
• Call For National Alcohol Strategy to be brought To cabinet.
• New drink driving limits / reoffenders 2012 - media briefing.
• Cannabis spray 'no aid to MS muscle spasms'.
• Drink and the Irish - Too many lives ruined by alcohol.
• Minister White allocates €100,000 from the Drugs Initiative to support Community Safety Fora in Tallaght and Clondalkin.
• Gardai seek to prove triad link to cannabis growhouses.
• Drivers face roadside drug tests this summer.
• Flanagan supports British call to legalise drugs.
• Target alcohol consumption and sexual violence.
• Small drug projects ‘will not survive latest cuts'
• No to ban on booze sponsors for sport.
• IMO and ICGP both call for action on alcohol abuse.
• Alcohol-related harm costs State an estimated €3.7billion a year.
• Parental link to young drinkers.
• Medicinal cannabis available here in the next year.
• Government failure to tackle alcohol abuse had “devastating” impact on society – health specialist.
• Cutting jail benzo use reduces violence.
• Sniffer dogs nose out smuggled prison drugs.
Publications
• Recorded crime quarter 3 2012.
• Report on the review of drugs task forces and the national stuctures under which they operate.
• Assessment of the economic value of youth work
• Directive of The European Parliament and of the Council on the approximation of the laws, regulations and administrative provisions of the Member States concerning the manufacture, presentation and sale of tobacco and related products.
• The EU drugs strategy 2013-2020.
• Multi-agency work with clients who have a dual diagnosis. Seminar report.
• Health in Ireland: key trends 2012.
• A Rapid Assessment Research (RAR) of drug and alcohol related public nuisance in Dublin City Centre.
• Methadone treatment in Irish general practice: voices of service users.
• A qualitative study of gender-based pathways to problem drinking in Dublin, Ireland.
• A perfect demonstration of the absence of leadership: alcohol policy in Ireland. Editorial
• Driving under the influence of drugs, alcohol and medicines in Europe — findings from the DRUID project.
• Wasted- The years waiting for an alcohol policy.
• Mortality among drug users: guidelines for carrying out, analysing and reporting key figures 2011–12.
• Analysis of the data sources, numbers and characteristics of cocaine-related DRD cases reported in Special Mortality Registries, or eventually in General Mortality Registries (GMR) when necessary.
• Feeling the effects.
• NACD annual report 2011.
• Methadone dosing and prescribed medication use in a prospective cohort of opioid-dependent pregnant women.
• National Rape Crisis statistics and annual report 2011.
• Home Affairs Committee - ninth report. Drugs: breaking the cycle.
• Best practice promotion in Europe: A web-based tool for the dissemination of evidence-based demand reduction interventions.
• Needs analysis and review of drug free support initiative.
• Happy parent initiative: (HP1) a review report.
• Prevention of alcohol related problems in Ireland - ICGP position paper.
• Fourth annual child & adolescent mental health service report 2011 – 2012.
• The symbolic politics of the Dublin drug court: the complexities of policy transfer.
Dail Debates
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Recent Dail debates
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