CELEBRITY ADDICT: Chef Jeanne Rankin battled drug problems Acceptable drugs aimed at easing modern stress have spawned a new breed of 'respectable' addicts. A hidden cohort of "respectable" drug ...

IN a quiet park behind the local library, a young woman shuffles back to a burnt-out tent and the sofa she now sleeps on – ...

HEROIN addicts trying to overcome their problem face a delay of up to six months for the methadone treatment programme, according to the Dundalk Drugs Action group. Brian Doyle, who works with ...

The Department of Health is looking into the possibility of supplying clean needles to drug addicts. Reports shows drug addict injecting himself with a needle from 1985. Interview Doctor James Walsh ...

Conflicting views are held on whether supervised injection rooms should be provided for heroin and other opiate addicts in Dublin. Those opposed are concerned about facilitating illegal drug use; ...

Drug users may be allowed to inject heroin and other drugs in a medically supervised setting from next year if new legislation is passed. Minister of State Aodhán Ó Ríordáin, who has special ...

Natalie Logan is using her personal experience of drug addiction to help men at HMP Barlinnie, where the vast majority of prisoners are caught in a revolving door of addiction, crime, and ...

A recovering drug addict who travelled to Thailand to collect drugs to service a drug debt has been jailed for nearly five years. Kieran O'Dea, 40, of Bunratty Road, Coolock, Dublin, told gardaí that ...

On St Francis Farm outside Tullow, Co Carlow, Norah Burgess, farm manager, is checking on the cows. There's a hole in the fence, she explains, and they've been leaping through it into the potato field ...

A DRUG for Parkinson’s and restless legs syndrome has turned some users into sex and gambling addicts. Pramipexole mimics natural dopamine to control movement and reduce symptoms. Nearly one in ...

Chronic nerve pain is one of the most difficult health problems to treat. It affects millions of people around the world and ...

Seattle drug addicts have praised the city's new mayor for allegedly telling cops not to arrest people doing illegal substances on the crime-ridden city's streets. One 36-year-old local, who gave his ...