# Drug Addiction
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Last year
2023
Voices
Opinion: The Citizens' Assembly on Drug Use has a once-in-a-lifetime chance to effect change
McGovern, Ó Concubhair & Marder
17 Oct 2023
7.6k
48
cocaine addiction
Cocaine overtakes opiates to become Ireland's 'most common' problem drug
20 Jun 2023
16.0k
80
All time
lack of support
Large numbers of people with drug addictions were 'left to kill themselves slowly' during lockdowns
5 Jan 2022
37.5k
61
Voices
Opinion: Most young people involved in street-level dealing are among our most vulnerable citizens
Eoin Lynagh
11 Jul 2021
25.2k
52
Voices
Opinion: It's time to get real about heroin addiction. It's time to decriminalise this drug
Dr Austin O'Carroll
19 Feb 2020
29.1k
41
Voices
Lynn Ruane: Drug courts are not the solution to Ireland's drug problem
Lynn Ruane
15 Dec 2019
15.3k
43
left behind
PODCAST: 'I lost two sons to suicide - I want people to know it's okay to have problems'
4 Jan 2019
51.6k
25
Drug Addiction
76 hospital discharges of newborns with drug withdrawal symptoms last year
23 Jul 2018
17.9k
24
decriminalisation
Should Ireland get rid of criminal penalties for drug possession? It has been successful elsewhere
10 Jun 2018
18.2k
101
Addiction
'You junkie, you addict' - How stigma can prevent drug users getting the help they need
27 Feb 2018
15.7k
45
Drug Addiction
Dublin footballer Philly McMahon spoke about his brother's death on the Late Late and it was powerful television
14 Oct 2017
4.4k
2
Drug Addiction
'An opponent taunted me about his overdose' - Dublin footballer Philly McMahon on his brother's death
14 Oct 2017
40.7k
57
Addiction
Scientists are using painkiller-addicted fish to develop new treatments for addicts
27 Aug 2017
7.6k
5
Addiction
Social work action 'unacceptably slow' in case of heroin user whose newborn died
13 Aug 2017
22.5k
36
Children's Court
Teen accused of causing €50k damage at Oberstown young offenders centre
9 Aug 2017
12.2k
Drug Addiction
92 hospital discharges of newborns with drug withdrawal symptoms last year
12 Jul 2017
22.4k
76
Justice For Dara
'Sleep well, starling': Family and friends gather to remember activist Dara Quigley
12 May 2017
33.4k
45
Drug Addiction
There's been a surge in the number of US babies born with heroin withdrawal symptoms
17 Dec 2016
9.6k
22
humans of dublin
'When there is somewhere safe for people to go and inject they will use it - I will use it'
22 Nov 2016
15.3k
44
FACTCHECK
FactCheck: Are there fewer gardaí dealing with a growing drugs problem?
24 Aug 2016
18.0k
44
Coolmine therapeutic Community
People coming out of drug treatment programmes are relapsing because of the lack of housing
9 Jun 2016
11.8k
38
Drug Addiction
"I had a 14-day detox that sent me into horrible withdrawals... but I still went back to heroin"
30 Jan 2016
32.4k
48
scott county indiana
The shocking story of the rise of HIV in one rural American community
24 Apr 2015
37.2k
21
Hope
'The morning my father was buried in Dublin, I was doing drugs down an alley in London'
6 Jan 2015
17.6k
16
Addiction
Mother of drug addict explains how support group 'made me feel like I wasn't the only one heartbroken'
2 Nov 2014
17.0k
10
Addiction
Dublin's drug situation hasn't gotten worse, it's just 'shifted to other areas'
3 Oct 2014
24.3k
101
Voices
Opinion: The sudden death of a young woman is not any less tragic for her being an addict
Claire Micks
24 Jul 2014
853
91