News
• Fears for future of Shortall's alcohol strategy.
• White to replace Shortall in health post
• Charity raises concern over support for “Arthur’s Day”.
• RCNI call for Rape Prevention Programmes that target alcohol consumption link to sexual violence.
• Action plan on alcohol must be a top priority for Government.
• Plan to ban cheap drink sales steps up a gear.
• Minister Shortall launches alcohol consumption and alcohol related harm in Ireland.
• Supervised injection sites in Ireland?
• Fatal drug batch part of 'one-off' shipment.
• NI Ban on fixed price drink promotions.
• Drugs sold through ‘hidden’ websites.
• Taoiseach defends decision to postpone ban on sale of cheap alcohol.
• Drink-drive detection fall linked to drop in traffic gardaí.
• Sudafed ‘used to make crystal meth’.
• Drug centre for mothers closes doors to new cases.
• Recreational users warned about mixing drugs.
• Europe-wide rise in ecstasy quality triggers surge in demand.
• MS patients: Cannabis-based drug move ‘fantastic’.
• Alcohol is the most used date rape drug.
• Prisoners released early in bid to reduce re-offending.
• Service proposed for doctors with drug abuse issues.
• “There is no product on the planet that is more unsuitable to act as a sponsor of these sports”
• Reassessing the dangers of cannabis.
• Late-night private ambulance service to be rolled out in Galway.
• Early tipple does not serve children.
• Southwest coast targeted by gangs for large drug landings.
• Drugs link to 70% of crimes on probation.
Publications
• Recorded crime quarter 2 2012.
• National Office for Suicide Prevention annual report 2011.
• Users’ voices: experiences and perceptions of European drug users on controlling their drug consumption. Thematic paper
• Southern Regional Drugs Task Force: annual report 2011
• Direct comparison of the cognitive effects of acute alcohol with the morning after a normal night's drinking.
• Social networking patterns/hazards among Irish teenagers.
• A quick question.
• Dublin Simon Community annual review 2011.
• Drug use in Ireland and Northern Ireland Alcohol Consumption and Alcohol-Related Harm in Ireland 2010/2011 Drug Prevalence Survey: Bulletin 7.
• The Irish tobacco industry position on price increases on tobacco products.
• Reporting biochemical toxicology to the coroner must be improved.
• Quality and standards in human services in Ireland: policing and the search for continuous improvement
• Quarterly report on HIV, quarter 2, 2012. (provisional data0.
• Merchants Quay Ireland annual review 2011.
• Between a rock and a hard place. How parents deal with children who use substances and perpetrate abuse. Project report.
• Crosscare teen counselling annual report 2011.
• RCNI Submission to the Joint Oireachtas committee on Justice, Defence and Equality, on the issue of Gratuitous Violence arising from Alcohol and substance abuse.
• Travel and drug use in Europe: a short review.
• Homeless persons in Ireland: a special Census report.
• Awareness raising of domestic and sexual violence: a survey of post-primary schools in Ireland.
• A quiet revolution: drug decriminalisation policies in practice across the globe.
• Family and individual experiences of self detoxification processes in the mid west.
• National hepatitis C strategy 2011-2014.
• Stimulant use among clients entering drug treatment in Europe.
• Substance use and psychiatric disorders in Irish adolescents: a cross-sectional study of patients attending substance abuse treatment service.
Dail Debates
• Recent Dail debates
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Recent Dail debates
This link provides access to relevant discussions from the Dail, Seanad, and Committees Drug and alcohol Oireachtas debates
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