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Ministers announce details of proposed Public Health (Alcohol) Bill
A tobacco-free Ireland by 2025?
Towards UNGASS 2016
A ‘healthy Ireland’ in a ‘healthy Europe’
CityWide groups meet to plan renewed campaign
Decriminalisation: CityWide urges informed debate
Travellers accessing addiction services in Ireland
Melting the iceberg of fear: drug-related intimidation in Blanchardstown
The overdose risk information (ORION) project
Alcohol Action Ireland conference on alcohol and mental health
Alcohol consumption in early pregnancy and pregnancy outcomes
Substance use prevention education in schools: an update on actions in the drugs strategy
National Registry of Deliberate Self Harm annual report 2012
Second report of the Suicide Support and Information System
New standards to support the voluntary capacity of youth work provision in Ireland
Latest report from the Teen Counselling service
Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service: report for 2011/2012
MQI annual review 2012
Coolmine Therapeutic Community annual report 2012
National Documentation Centre on Drug Use
From Drugnet Europe
Recent publications
Upcoming events
‘Let’s Talk About Drugs’ media award winners 2013
Ministers announce details of proposed Public Health (Alcohol) Bill
by Deirdre Mongan


 
Minister of State Alex White, Minister for Health James Reilly and Minister for Children and Youth Affairs Frances Fitzgerald announce measures to deal with alcohol misuse
Minister of State Alex White, Minister for Health James Reilly and Minister for Children and Youth Affairs Frances Fitzgerald announce measures to deal with alcohol misuse
On 24 October 2013 Ministers James Reilly, Frances Fitzgerald and Alex White announced that the government had, at its cabinet meeting on 22 October, approved a number measures to be incorporated in a Public Health (Alcohol) Bill to deal with harmful use of alcohol.1 The measures are based on the Steering Group Report on a National Substance Misuse Strategy,2 which was published in February 2012 and contained 45 recommendations under the pillars of supply, prevention, treatment and rehabilitation, and research.


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A tobacco-free Ireland by 2025?
by Brigid Pike


 
On 3 October 2013 the Minister for Health, James Reilly TD, launched Tobacco free Ireland, the government’s revised policy on tobacco control.1 It sets a target of a tobacco-free Ireland in 12 years’  time, which it defines as ‘the achievement of a smoking prevalence rate of less than 5% of the Irish population by 2025. Tobacco will still be available but at a higher price and in restricted outlets.’


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Towards UNGASS 2016
by Brigid Pike (compiler)


 
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This column reports on policy initiatives, research and debates launched in UN member states and by civil society organisations that are relevant to the UN General Assembly Special Session (UNGASS) on the world drug problem, scheduled for 2016 (A/RES/67/193).1


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National Documentation Centre on Drug Use
by Brian Galvin and Suzi Lyons


During 2013 the National Documentation Centre on Drug Use (NDC) expanded existing online resources and introduced some new services. The NDC works with researchers and practitioners throughout the drugs and alcohol sector to make research-based knowledge available and useful to people in their work and study.


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Justine Horgan - an appreciation
by her colleagues


Dr Justine Horgan, senior researcher in the National Advisory Committee on Drugs and Alcohol (NACDA), died in August. Justine was a Health Research Board (HRB) staff member seconded to the Department of Health and worked as prevalence expert at the Irish National Focal Point to the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA). Justine’s colleagues and friends in the HRB were deeply saddened by her untimely death. Justine was a highly dedicated scientist with a commitment to ensuring that evidence of the highest quality was available to those making policy in the drugs field. We have lost an excellent colleague and a good friend and we will remember her time working with us with both fondness and regret.

In the paragraphs below, some of those who came to know Justine during her time in the Department of Health recall the projects on which they worked together.



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