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In recent years there has been much hype about our drugs problems, but usually when people talk about drugs, they are not talking about the most prevalent and most abused drug in the country – alcohol. Irish people spend more on alcohol annually that any other people [Irish Examiner]
An expert in treating alcohol addiction has called on the drinks industry to ringfence 1% of its annual profits towards the research and treatment of alcohol abuse [Irish Examiner]
Drug addicts receiving treatment are to be monitored by a special patient-tracking system following a failure to keep check on recovering users in methadone programmes [Irish Examiner]
Publicans are lobbying Fianna Fáil to block moves by Minister for Transport Noel Dempsey to lower the drink-drive limit [drugs.ie]
A story of Drug Treatment Outcomes [The National Advisory Committee on Drugs, Ireland]
Problem alcohol use has a high prevalence among current or former heroin users attending primary care for methadone treatment and interventions that address this issue should be explored as a priority [BMC Family Practice, Ireland]
A new value for money report on drug addiction services highlights the need to audit non-opiate drug treatment expenditure too [Irish Medical News]
While addiction counselling and methadone maintenance treatment is available in most Irish prisons, there are only a small number of full rehabilitation programme places [Irish Independent]
Newsletter of the Alcohol and Drug Research Unit [Ireland]
Vision: To provide a national focus for all knowledge related efforts that inform Irish policy in relation to drug misuse.[National Advisory Committee on Drugs, Ireland]
The Research Outcome Study in Ireland Evaluating Drug Treatment Effectiveness (ROSIE) was the first national, prospective, longitudinal drug treatment outcome study in Ireland [National Advisory Committee on Drugs, Ireland]
Family doctors could take 1,000 drug addicts off treatment waiting lists if they were allowed treat more people, a leading GP has said [Irish Examiner]
The focus is on the combinations of both legal and illegal drugs based on information obtained from the second drug prevalence survey of households to be carried out in both Ireland and Northern Ireland [National Advisory Committee, Ireland]
This examination looked at all the main publicly-funded treatment and rehabilitation services provided for persons with addiction to illegal drugs (mainly cannabis, cocaine, ecstasy and heroin) [Government of Ireland]
An examination into the €140 million spent by State agencies on drug treatment services has found a very small proportion of heroin-users on methadone maintenance ever get off the drug [Irish Times]
THE effectiveness of the country’s main drugs education programme for schools has been seriously questioned in the new National Drugs Strategy (NDS) [Irish Examiner]
The impact of alcohol consumption on deaths and hospitalisations in Ireland is much greater than previously realised, new research has found [Irish Times]
The NACD undertook this study to explore female and male problematic drug-using sex workers’ lived experience of risk, and how the risk environment can mediate the individual’s capacity to reduce the risk of harm [National Advisory Committee on Drugs, Ireland]
Does this Government have any coherent policies at all? Last year, with great hullabaloo, it passed the Intoxicating Liquor Act that was designed to protect society from the malign effects of alcohol abuse [Irish Times]
The voluntary code will mean an end to alcohol-only advertising on TV and radio by retailers and an end to special offers on alcohol scattered throughout stores [Irish Times]
