Why Dublin’s crack cocaine crisis is visible on the streets
In the News podcast: Crack cocaine crisis looks very like heroin epidemic of the 1980s
Addiction
Addiction
‘It’s like going for a coffee with a friend’: Finding mental health solace in a cafe
Solace cafes aim to provide an alternative to traditional psychiatric emergency care
Pressure on frontline services
Without urgent Government action, rising demand will continue to place frontline services under increasing strain
How Ireland’s seas and rivers are becoming spaces for healing: ‘It changes how we pay attention to our bodies’
For decades, environmental psychology has explored why humans feel better outdoors in green spaces like forests, but attention is turning now to blue spaces, asking why water makes us feel happier
Most patients have multiple addictions, says treatment clinic Rutland Centre
Nearly two-thirds of all those entering the centre have more than one addiction, usually to alcohol and cocaine
My boyfriend often drinks heavily and takes cocaine and I’m struggling to deal with it
Ask Roe: On the surface level, I find it disgraceful that my partner would get into this state
More women than men seeking help for crack cocaine addiction at national centre, report finds
Alcohol remains the most common substance for which people seek treatment from the Coolmine Therapeutic Community
‘This thing makes people animal’: Inside Bangladesh’s Yaba addiction epidemic
The drug, which means ‘crazy medicine’, is on the rise in the south Asian country despite severe punishments
Zurich’s radical response to Europe’s drug crisis tested by surge in use of crack cocaine
Three decades after the chaos of the Swiss city’s ‘Needle Park’, supervised drug use and state-backed heroin treatment have cut harm, but crack has posed new challenges
Graeme Armstrong: ‘You could call Raveheart an alternate history’
The 35-year-old Scotsman talks politics, poverty, activism and addiction on the back of the novel’s release
‘I looked at what drink had done to my mam, and said I’d never end up like that. But I did’
Alcohol darkened Jennifer’s entire childhood in north Co Dublin, paving the way to her own addictions later on
For those who are homeless, in addiction, or recovery - a safe place for women
Jane’s Place helps vulnerable women ‘feel human, not a problem to be solved’
Crosswords & Puzzles
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
Stardust
Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
Common Ground
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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