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# fentanyl - Thursday 13 September, 2018
The rise of opiates: How Ireland's 'broken' health service is behind a surge in prescription painkillers
The use of powerful painkillers has gradually risen in recent years.
# fentanyl - Saturday 25 August, 2018
Prince's family to sue doctor over 'failing to treat opioid addiction'
Prince Rogers Nelson died of an accidental overdose of fentanyl on 15 April 2016.
# fentanyl - Wednesday 15 August, 2018
Man executed in Nebraska prison using untested lethal injection
Carey Dean Moore received a lethal concoction containing diazepam, fentanyl and potassium chloride.
# fentanyl - Thursday 19 April, 2018
Prosecutor won't file criminal charges in connection with Prince's death
A doctor will pay a fine.
# fentanyl - Wednesday 31 May, 2017
Drug 100 times more potent than morphine being mixed with heroin and cocaine
Tony Duffin of Ana Liffey Drug Project says the trend is causing “great uncertainty and people are frightened”.
# fentanyl - Wednesday 10 May, 2017
Warning to drug users over opioid 10,000 times more potent than morphine
Carfentanyl, which has caused deaths across the US and in the UK, has been detected in Northern Ireland.
# fentanyl - Wednesday 18 January, 2017
Warning issued over dangerous new drug in Cork following death of 16-year-old
U-4 is a dangerous synthetic opioid discovered recently for the first time in Ireland.
# fentanyl - Monday 22 August, 2016
Counterfeit pills found at Prince's estate contained drug 50 times more powerful than heroin
Autopsy results released in June show Prince died of an accidental fentanyl overdose.
# fentanyl - Sunday 31 July, 2016
Elephant sedative emerges as new threat in US overdose battle
The drug is 100 times as potent as the fentanyl already escalating the country’s heroin problems.
# fentanyl - Friday 29 July, 2016
Hospitals told to be on the lookout for patients who have taken lethal 'designer drug'
Five deaths in Ireland have been linked to fentanyl-related substances.
# fentanyl - Thursday 28 July, 2016
Warning about 'designer drug' after spate of overdoses in Cork and Dublin
The HSE believes a more potent drug is being sold as heroin.
# fentanyl - Tuesday 12 July, 2016
Chaka Khan checks into rehab in the wake of Prince's death
The 63-year-old singer is famous for her cover of Prince’s I Feel for You.
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Poll: Would you go to a socially-distanced concert?
CONCERTS AND MANY other events have, of course, been cancelled during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Images of a socially-distanced concert in England were widely shared during the week.
Fans at the Sam Fender concert at the Virgin Money Unity Arena, a pop-up venue in Gosforth Park, Newcastle, watched the outdoor concert in groups of up to five people from 500 separate raised metal platforms.
Promoters described the event as the world’s first socially-distanced gig. Some people thought the layout looked great, while others were not so sure.
We want to know: Would you go to a socially-distanced concert?
Poll Results:
Yes (55)
No (40)
I'm not sure (8)
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Dr Anthony O'Connor: 'The rhetoric of “all being in it together” is dead'
By Dr Anthony O'Connor - @Antcon7062
Open Letter from Ireland's psychologists: 'Direct Provision is causing untold psychological harm'
By Psychologists for Social Change Ireland
“As a country we must do better,” according to about 150 signatories.
What we can learn from the world's 'Blue Zones' - where people regularly live into their 90s and 100s
By Professor Ciaran O’Boyle
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