SHE now rakes in a whopping £13,000 a month thanks to TikTok. But just a few years ago, Shannon Ashley’s life was looking ...

Solicitor Thomas Honan told Arklow court last week that his client Neil Walker was a serious heroin addict who has been trying to get treatment and looking for help for a while. Neil Walker, 11 St.

A NEW drug has been launched which could help heroin addicts kick the habit quicker - and with less withdrawal symptoms. The creators of the drug - Suboxone - claim that it is better than the current ...

A major change in tactics is needed to help address the heroin problem in Ireland, according to an organisation that supports homeless drug addicts in Dublin. Mon, 07 Jul, 2008 - 12:30 A major change ...

THE Government shelled out more than €20million on methadone treatments for heroin addicts last year, the Irish Sun can reveal. And 2015 also saw the number of users availing of the free substitute ...

LENGTHENING WAITING times for methadone treatment are acting as a disincentive for heroin addicts to seek treatment, the chief executive of the largest voluntary drug treatment project, Merchants Quay ...

Merchants Quay Ireland said health authorities should examine the benefits of alternative drug treatments, like heroin, to compliment the existing substitute methadone. “Drug substitution treatments ...

Health authorities are seeking funding for the roll-out of an alternative to methadone for treating people with heroin and other opiate drug addictions. Clinicians and patient groups have long been ...

I was in the bath trying to get warm, surrounded by needles, screaming to God for help. I thought, “I’m going to be dead soon”. This chapter of my life had begun when I was 15. That was when I met an ...

At the age of 24 years old Emma Sellors’ life began spiralling into a world of drug addiction after becoming addicted to heroin a month after first trying it. Over the next 12 years she lost custody ...

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