Frontline community drug taskforces are struggling to attract employees to deal with the “crack cocaine crisis” impacting deprived communities. A lack of job security and pensions, along with better ...

The particular vulnerabilities of women caught up in an "epidemic" of crack addiction in west Tallaght, Dublin, are clear during an evening with one of the area's only after-hours outreach teams. Of ...

HOLLY Hagan has admitted she’s been forced to go “cold turkey” while trying to crack an addiction that’s taking over her life ...

Free crack pipes could be handed out by the crisis-stricken NHS - under a ‘reckless’ plan to encourage addicts to smoke cocaine more safely. They would be issued by staff at The Thistle - which was ...

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A new report has revealed a “tsunami” of crack cocaine addictions in Tallaght, with one-third of those seeking help being women. Over the last 10 years, the number of people treated in Tallaght Drugs ...

COCAINE was the most common drug last year among people entering treatment for addiction for the first time. There has been a three-fold increase in the number of cases treated for problem cocaine use ...

The subject of addiction swirls with myths and misinformation. It doesn’t help that so many people seem to believe that their own struggle with addiction — or a few drop-ins to Alcoholics Anonymous ...

A Oxford-educated lawyer from Liverpool lost his job, freedom, wife and almost his life after spiralling into a crack cocaine addiction. John McGlashan, 69, tells the story of his journey through ...

The number of people seeking treatment for addiction to crack cocaine in Ireland has surged by 400% in recent years, according to the latest national figures released by the Health Research Board (HRB ...