HRB National Drugs Library e-newsletter volume 17, issue 12

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News

'They showed me I mattered': women explain how inner city project helped transform their lives.

Press Association. [thejournal.ie] (30 Dec 2021)

HSE considers ban on sale of tobacco in State.

[Irish Times] Keena, Colm (30 Dec 2021)

Calls for HSE to fill Bray Local Drugs and Alcohol taskforce co-ordinator vacancy.

[Irish Independent] Dodd, Eimear (29 Dec 2021)

High Court challenge alleges Irish anti-drug legislation is against EU free movement of goods.

[thejournal.ie] O'Faolain, Aodhan (23 Dec 2021)

US public alerts: synthetic opioids.

The Centre for Forensic Science Research & Education [CSFRE] (22 Dec 2021)

Women's prison has highest drug detection rate in country.

[Irish Examiner] McDonagh,Darragh (22 Dec 2021)

Minister for Public Health, Wellbeing and the National Drugs Strategy announces €2 million Community Services Enhancement Fund for drug and alcohol services.

[Department of Health] (22 Dec 2021)

How will proposed gambling legislation affect sports punters?

[Irish Examiner] Mallon, Ian (21 Dec 2021)

Street tablets could be laced with fentanyl, warns doctor.

[Irish Examiner] Baker, Noel (20 Dec 2021)

More than half of spiking incidents this year involved injections, says Helen McEntee.

[Irish Examiner] Loughlin, Elaine (15 Dec 2021)

Little change in tax take from cigarettes after price rises.

[Irish Times] Foxe, Ken (13 Dec 2021)

Worsening toll of teens hooked on cannabis is a ‘silent epidemic’.

[Independent.ie] Kelleher, Lynne (12 Dec 2021)

Minimum pricing: bringing an end to booze at 'pocket money' prices.

[Alcohol Action Ireland] (10 Dec 2021)

Gambling addiction: ‘It is everywhere you look, and it is big business’.

[Irish Times] Keena, Colm (05 Dec 2021)

Minister Feighan convenes oversight committee to drive the implementation of the national drugs strategy for 2021-2025.

[Department of Health] (05 Dec 2021)

Cheaper crack cocaine supplies in cities 'sees people travel from rural areas to buy the drug'.

[thejournal.ie] O'Connor, Niall (02 Dec 2021)

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