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Last year
2023
Ireland 'needs to be ready' for increase in fentanyl use amid expected heroin shortage
9 Nov 2023
20.1k
35
All time
Stigma around drug use preventing people from coming forward to access key supports
9 Dec 2022
7.0k
12
'The level of sickness we're seeing is massive': A day on addiction outreach in Limerick city
16 Nov 2022
23.1k
32
Covid housing supports allowed drug users to 'better engage with treatment services'
Updated 1 Nov 2021
14.6k
3
Report highlights increase in deaths involving street tablets in Ireland
28 Apr 2020
15.5k
0
'Addiction doesn't stop during a pandemic, it gets worse': Methadone waiting lists virtually eliminated amid overdose fears
25 Apr 2020
34.8k
36
'I was being punished for something I had no control over': Rachael Keogh 13 years after her addiction made national news
6 Apr 2019
144k
57
Intent 'should be key concern under drug decriminalisation laws'
8 Oct 2018
12.3k
11
HSE offers training in treatment that can reverse drug overdoses
31 Aug 2018
10.2k
29
Drug outreach services to be provided at Electric Picnic campsites
22 Aug 2018
10.5k
11
Ex-Assistant Commissioner on drug debate: 'Our young people are criminalised, deprived of life chances'
13 Jun 2018
16.3k
28
Increase in people smoking and injecting crack cocaine in Dublin
15 Nov 2017
19.4k
20
Fears 'risky new drug trend' could develop amid crackdown on prescription drugs
5 May 2017
17.7k
11
Drugs should be a priority issue for general election candidates - here's why
Tony Duffin
26 Dec 2015
133
35
Here are 15 PRACTICAL ways to help homeless people this Christmas and New Year
19 Dec 2015
22.2k
7
Progressive laws and the Dark Web are changing the lives of Irish drug users
7 Nov 2015
15.8k
16
"The stereotype of overdose is a person with a needle in their arm"
31 Aug 2015
13.8k
24
'Deeply worrying' increase in people huffing butane in Dublin city centre
25 Aug 2015
25.0k
56
Just yards from the lattés and those craft beer bars ... dozens upon dozens of needles
7 Jun 2015
42.7k
94
People are sniffing cheap butane gas to get high on the streets of Dublin
6 May 2015
11.9k
34
The new drugs minister describes his trip to Amsterdam as a young student
23 Apr 2015
23.2k
68
'Drug that reverses heroin overdoses should be made more available'
2 Dec 2014
8.3k
49
Good Morning
The 9 at 9 Nine things to know this morning…
20 Jan 2012
5.1k
4
Plans for new supervised drug injecting centre in Dublin
20 Jan 2012
4.2k
73