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# Tony Duffin

This year
2024
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
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Last year
2023
Drugs at centre of recent Dublin overdose cluster purchased 'across one strip of the city'
21 Dec 2023
14.8k
A potent synthetic opioid was found in the heroin that caused overdoses, but what are nitazenes?
Updated 15 Nov 2023
16.2k
Ireland 'needs to be ready' for increase in fentanyl use amid expected heroin shortage
9 Nov 2023
20.1k
35
Crack cocaine 'hit Limerick city like snow', drug users say
8 Feb 2023
34.5k
29
All time
Stigma around drug use preventing people from coming forward to access key supports
9 Dec 2022
7.0k
12
Cheaper crack cocaine supplies in cities 'sees people travel from rural areas to buy the drug'
2 Dec 2021
28.0k
23
Deaths of two people sleeping rough in tents in Phoenix Park over Christmas confirmed
5 Jan 2021
53.3k
52
'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 felt intense pressure before I did my TEDx talk - but I'm very glad I did it. Here's what I learned
Tony Duffin
7 Sep 2019
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'It does not make sense': Concerns over reports that Government will continue to criminalise drug use
27 Mar 2019
10.8k
35
Majority of Irish people believe drug users should be dealt with by health services, not courts
25 Feb 2019
14.3k
61
'We've been to too many funerals': Study shows one third of homeless deaths linked to drugs or alcohol
1 Feb 2019
9.0k
16
'A lot of questions about ketamine' - keeping people drug-safe at Electric Picnic's welfare tent
9 Sep 2017
33.4k
26
Calls for highly potent cannabis to be made Class A drug after man cuts off penis and stabs mother
2 Jun 2017
48.5k
144
Drug 100 times more potent than morphine being mixed with heroin and cocaine
31 May 2017
18.4k
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'A great day for drug policy in Ireland': Supervised injecting centres get go-ahead
10 May 2017
25.1k
95
Fears 'risky new drug trend' could develop amid crackdown on prescription drugs
5 May 2017
17.7k
11
It's planned the first supervised injecting facility will open in 2017. So how did we get here?
Tony Duffin
24 Dec 2016
283
34
'People die in toilets, people die in urine-soaked stairwells'
30 Nov 2016
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24
Dublin's drug laneways: One year on, the alleys are still littered with needles
5 May 2016
25.7k
38
HIV is on the rise in Dublin
29 May 2015
16.4k
21
'Hugely worrying' upsurge in violence among Dublin rough-sleepers
16 May 2015
18.6k
39
The new drugs minister describes his trip to Amsterdam as a young student
23 Apr 2015
23.2k
68
Is crystal meth on the rise? One Councillor says it's like Breaking Bad out there
11 Jan 2015
36.8k
33
Plans for new supervised drug injecting centre in Dublin
20 Jan 2012
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