Joe Barry

The secret to a successful Young Scientist pitch

Competition is tight, so here’s the inside track for students hoping to make it to the exhibition

Ecstasy and toxic varieties easily available at student hangouts

‘The worst experiences I’ve had were more to do with taking more than one pill in a night’

Ireland ‘should consider’ no jab-no pay vaccination policy

Doctors say incentives work better than Australian plan for penalties

Parents contact TD to push for teens’ access to cheap alcohol

New alliance to support Government measures to reduce alcohol consumption

Drug-related deaths up 50% since 2004, Dáil hears

Trinity statistics show alcohol responsible for 1,500 hospital beds every night

Teen cannabis users less likely to finish school, get a degree

Daily users of cannabis in adolescence are seven times more likely to attempt suicide

Methadone: the ‘government drug’

The State is official opiate supplier to 10,000 people. Methadone stabilises, and sometimes even saves, the lives of heroin users, but many are in their second decade of dependency

Alternatives to prison are in the best interests of Irish society

A ‘pseudo national holiday’, says Minister

Alex White describes Arthur’s Day as ‘contrived’

Industry efforts to curb drinking a ‘joke’

Discharge rates for alcoholic liver disease rose 247% for 15-34 year-olds from 1995-2007

Sporting bodies are ‘in alcohol industry’s pocket’

‘We facilitate the drinks industry to groom our children,’ psychiatrist tells committee

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