In the second of a two-part investigation into Ireland’s drug treatment services, Aoife Connors hears from those at the other end of the treatment protocol and finds out what they think needs to change Jennifer’s story “I began taking drugs when I was nine years old. I was taking Valium tablets out of my mother’s [...]
By Mary Anne Kenny. The Irish Pharmacy Union (IPU) has called for the deregulation of a number of commonly used drugs, in light of the Irish Medicines Board’s (IMB) decision on February 16 to allow the emergency contraceptive drug Norlevo to be made available from the pharmacist without a prescription. The medicines which pharmacists want [...]
By Lloyd Mudiwa lloyd.mudiwa@imt.ie Despite being regulated, unlike illicit drugs, alcohol has a prevalence of 80 per cent compared to just 1 per cent to 5 per cent for illegal substances, and a much wider spectrum of effects, a leading public health specialist has said. Alcohol also affected all classes, unlike illicit drugs, which tended [...]
A recent study on ‘Alcohol and Drug Use’ amongst students attending the University College Cork (UCC) student health centre has found that more than 98 per cent had begun drinking alcohol by the age of 15.9 years. The aim of the study was to determine the alcohol and drug use, and associated consequences, amongst third level [...]
The National Advisory Committee on Drugs (NACD) is commissioning research on the methods and data sources used to estimate drug use, Irish Medical Times has learned. The two-month project will determine the number of problem opiate and cocaine users and the prevalence of opiate and cocaine use in the country — one of five key [...]
The Government believes that reference pricing will introduce competition in the off-patent drugs market, reports Gary Culliton Potential savings of up to €22.3 million under the Drugs Payment Scheme (DPS) and €55.4 million under the General Medical Services (GMS) scheme are possible, a new report suggests. The Government plans to introduce reference pricing for medications [...]
More than 95 per cent of patients want information on generic substitution from GPs rather than pharmacists, a survey by a Tralee-based general practice has found. The survey was conducted by GP Registrar Dr Peadar Ó Fionnain and Dr John Kenneth Holmes of the Brandon Medical Centre in Tralee as part of a research project [...]
The Health Service Executive (HSE) has asked Prof Joe Barry, Professor of Population Health Medicine at TCD, to work with Prof Michael Farrell, Professor of Addiction Psychiatry and Director of Postgraduate Medical Education in the Institute of Psychiatry London, on a review of the current methadone treatment protocol. The National Drugs Strategy requires that this [...]
Dr Una MacConville and Dr Regina McQuillan report on a recent study of a range of deathbed phenomena in an Irish hospice Visions of deceased relatives or religious figures close to the time of death are sometimes reported by dying people or their relatives. These visions form part of a range of experiences that have [...]
Marie-Catherine Mousseau explores drug addiction and the underlying neurophysiological mechanisms responsible for its hold on our behaviour According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the essence of drug addiction is repeated and out-of-control use of a psychoactive substance. The person who is addicted compulsively seeks and uses the drug at the expense of other activities, [...]
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