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Drug use

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23rd February 2025 - 1st March 2025
Drug use
Less than 3% of drug users in Europe got treatment to help them manage or quit last year
25 Feb
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Last year
2024
psycare
Opinion: We should try to reduce the harm caused by Christmas excess as much as possible
Michael Ledden & Kathryn Ledden
22 Dec 2024
7.9k
The Morning Lead
Ireland’s first medically supervised injection centre to open, nine years after it was approved
Service users said they have been “treated like lepers” but will finally have a safe, non-judgemental place to go, Eddie Mullins told us.
The MSIF was first proposed at Cabinet nine years ago, almost to the day, on 15 December 2015
Plans for the facility were beset with objections, but it will finally open in the coming days
Dublin's inner city has been "ravaged by addiction and drug use over many, many years", MQI CEO Eddie Mullins said
Órla Ryan
17 Dec 2024
14.6k
GE2024health led approach
Fianna Fáil clarifies that it won't decriminalise possession of all drugs
11 Nov 2024
17.2k
96
Addiction
Lynn Ruane: It's time to change our approach to drug use and addiction
Lynn Ruane
27 Oct 2024
13.6k
50
Addiction
Testing of drugs found in Irish prisons can take three months on average
26 Sep 2024
4.4k
Drug Use Committee
Anti-overdose drug 'should be publicly available in towns in same way as defibrillators'
Updated 19 Sep 2024
18.8k
97
Drug use
'Appetite' in Ireland for finding alternative responses to drug possession - report
Updated 2 Jul 2024
13.9k
41
Addiction
Drug policy is 'literally killing people' and Ireland should decriminalise use, committee hears
27 Jun 2024
9.5k
Health Research Board
Record 13,104 cases treated for problem drug use amid jump in cocaine use, especially among women
25 Jun 2024
9.1k
Addiction
Senator on helping woman who was likely overdosing: 'No one wanted to help, it was really horrible'
Updated 20 Jun 2024
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First meeting
More people will die if there are further delays to reforming drug approach, Paul Reid warns
Updated 13 Jun 2024
7.9k
Drug use
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10 Jun 2024
9.7k
The Morning Lead
Delay in getting Drug Use Committee off the ground as members not yet nominated by all parties
4 May 2024
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War
Tony Duffin: The trauma of war is fuelling drug abuse among soldiers in Ukraine
Tony Duffin
21 Apr 2024
9.6k
The Morning Lead
'Demons were following me': Call to make HHC illegal after users experience psychotic episodes
HHC, a semisynthetic cannabinoid derived from CBD, is widely available in Ireland.
There are growing concerns that HHC is triggering psychotic episodes in certain people
HHC vapes are widely available online, and in vape and CBD shops
"I was seeing and hearing things that weren't there. I was being followed around by demons," one man told us
Órla Ryan
4 Apr 2024
29.8k
drug policy
Taoiseach expects Oireachtas committee on drug use to be up and running no later than April
13 Feb 2024
7.5k
31
Dublin
Merchants Quay says it will take time for drug users to 'trust' new supervised injection centre
29 Jan 2024
11.4k
14
assembly's final report
Ireland has 'once in a generation' chance to decriminalise personal drug use, Paul Reid says
A special Oireachtas committee will be established to examine the Citizens’ Assembly’s recommendations, Drugs Minister Hildegarde Naughton confirmed.
The Citizens' Assembly on Drug Use today published its final report
The document includes 36 recommendations to overhaul Ireland's drug policy and establish a more health-led approach
A special Oireachtas committee will be set up to examine the report and suggest new legislation
Órla Ryan
Updated 25 Jan 2024
40.3k
280
chemsex
Detoxing from G is '100 times worse than alcohol withdrawal', expert warns
Chemsex – using drugs like G to enhance and prolong sex – has become more common in Ireland in recent years.
GHB or GBL is used socially and for the purposes of chemsex
The drug is highly addictive and its potency varies widely
Every year dozens of people seek help to detox from G at the Club Drugs Clinic in Dublin
Órla Ryan
15 Jan 2024
42.1k
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nitazenes
HSE warns of 'extra risk' to drug users after eight overdoses in Cork in the last 36 hours
8 Dec 2023
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Addiction
Irish society 'hates heroin users': Former minister hits out at drugs policy
19 Nov 2023
21.5k
Neart Le Chéile
Service users 'devastated' amid plan to shut down 'vital' addiction support service in Dublin
17 Nov 2023
10.3k
12
nitazenes
A potent synthetic opioid was found in the heroin that caused overdoses, but what are nitazenes?
Updated 15 Nov 2023
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nitazenes
At least 40 people in Dublin overdose on 'very potent' heroin batch as HSE issues fresh warning
Updated 10 Nov 2023
40.6k
poppy ban
Ireland 'needs to be ready' for increase in fentanyl use amid expected heroin shortage
9 Nov 2023
20.1k
35
drug policy
'There is no time to waste': What happens next after the Citizens' Assembly on Drug Use?
23 Oct 2023
11.2k
80
Drug use
Citizens' Assembly on Drugs Use to vote on key recommendations to Government
21 Oct 2023
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Drug use
'Absolute priority' to open Ireland's first supervised drug injection centre by next September
19 Oct 2023
10.8k
drug policy
Opinion: The Citizens' Assembly on Drug Use has a once-in-a-lifetime chance to effect change
McGovern, Ó Concubhair & Marder
17 Oct 2023
7.7k
48
Cocaine
Dr Chris Luke: What exactly happens to your body when you take cocaine?
Dr Chris Luke
Updated 8 Oct 2023
48.4k
77
Drugs
Chief Medical Officer says level of cannabis use in Ireland is ‘of great concern’
Updated 30 Sep 2023
34.3k
277
citizens assembly
Opinion: The Citizens’ Assembly on Drug Use needs more diversity of speakers and thought
Lynn Ruane, Ian Marder & Cian O’Concubhair
24 Sep 2023
11.1k
harm reduction
Pilot scheme will see people at risk of opioid overdose given relief medication they can take at home
1 Sep 2023
11.9k
32
act now
Tales from New York: 'We should learn from the drug treatment approach here'
Tony Duffin
20 Aug 2023
12.2k
62
Naloxone
Support service calls for better availability of overdose-reversing drug
26 Jun 2023
6.1k
10
paul reid
Citizens’ assembly chair says urgent step change in approach to drug use is needed
25 Jun 2023
11.0k
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The Morning Lead
'Staff have been attacked, spat at': Dublin city businesses on impact of anti-social behaviour
9 Jun 2023
41.7k
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Drug Testing
97 drug samples surrendered for testing at Life Festival
2 Jun 2023
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citizens assembly
Drug use 'everywhere' but marginalised communities face more difficulties, Citizens' Assembly hears
Updated 13 May 2023
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