# Medication
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Last year
2023
Addiction
GP centre won't prescribe 'highly addictive' painkillers due to concerns over illegal drug trade
There have been growing concerns in recent weeks about the sale of opioids and other powerful painkillers.
A GP centre in Dublin is refusing to prescribe powerful painkillers like Oxycontin or "highly addictive" benzodiazepines
Health Minister Stephen Donnelly said prescription medications often end up being sold on the street
Benzodiazepines are generally prescribed to treat anxiety, sleep disorders and seizures
21 Dec 2023
30.0k
Mental Health
CAMHS report raises serious concerns about children on medication not getting follow-up care
23 Jan 2023
15.4k
14
All time
Medication
Report into Kerry CAMHS services 'shocking', says Taoiseach as nationwide audit ordered
26 Jan 2022
87.6k
covid19
Public warned not to buy fake medicines that claim to treat or prevent coronavirus
24 Mar 2020
7.4k
7
Medication
Benzodiazepine use in Irish over 65s is higher than international average
8 Jul 2019
31.9k
79
Health
Clinical trials involving Irish patients 'saved the health service €13m' over two years
20 May 2019
9.1k
3
Spinraza
'We are failing these children spectacularly': Row over drug with 'exorbitant' cost rumbles on
10 Mar 2019
9.3k
13
Spinraza
'You wouldn't tell a child they couldn't have chemo, but our son is being denied the medication he needs'
3 Feb 2019
19.4k
17
Drugs
Steroids and erectile dysfunction pills: One million doses of illegal medication seized last year
17 Apr 2018
11.2k
23
HIV
'I'm most angry at myself': HIV positive people continue to suffer from stigma in Ireland
28 Sep 2017
18.8k
33
Cystic Fibrosis
'In danger of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory': How tension built ahead of Orkambi deal
26 Aug 2017
12.6k
11
Entresto
'Patients are being put at risk': Funding issues stopping 20,000 people receiving 'life-saving' meds
27 Jul 2017
8.2k
8
Courts
Man who raped woman and left her injured in laneway is jailed for 13 years
2 Nov 2016
29.0k
33
Voices
'Why am I on anti-depressants? Because I suffer from depression'
Rosemary MacCabe
19 May 2016
2.6k
144
Depression
Mindfulness therapy can be as good as medication for preventing depressive relapses
21 Apr 2015
14.7k
40
prescription
'Disgraceful and dishonourable' doctor found to have over-prescribed sleeping tablets to addict
23 Mar 2015
20.5k
never seen before
Mother of Cork toddler thanks hospital for saving her daughter with rare diabetes
25 Feb 2015
20.1k
8
cross border prescriptions
Now you can pick up your prescription while you're on holiday
16 Nov 2014
15.5k
33
Medication
Prescription charges bring in €120m but hurt 'most vulnerable in society'
14 Sep 2014
6.5k
38
not good
Study: Irish people on medication still drink alcohol, even when they shouldn't
3 Jul 2014
10.2k
27
Voices
Opinion: On medication, I function – off medication, I don’t. It’s as simple as that.
Fiona Kennedy
17 Jun 2014
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no review
No plans to extend Long Term Illness Scheme list despite not being updated since 1970
8 Jun 2014
27.0k
46
Pharmacy
Pharmacy delivery service set up after people stop taking meds due to cost
13 Apr 2014
22.8k
39
popping pills
People with asthma, diabetes and high cholesterol worst at taking medication
25 Mar 2014
8.2k
39
flu be gone
All set for Christmas, but now you're sick? What should you take to help?
21 Dec 2013
18.7k
49
misperceptions
A spaceship crash, near apocalypse, and six other major miscalculations and mistakes
26 Oct 2013
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Voices
Column: Budgeting our depression? Funding cuts are disastrous to mental health
Kate Bellamy
19 Oct 2013
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