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March 2013

Drugs.ie wins silver award at Samsung Digital Media Awards 2013

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Let's Talk about Drugs National Media Awards 2013

BelongToThe “Let’s Talk About Drugs” Media Awards competition encourages the public discussion of drug-related issues by inviting secondary school students and aspiring journalists to create a feature about drugs.

The awards coordinators, Greater Blanchardstown Response to Drugs, have teamed up with drugs.ie, the HSE, the Department of Health, and the Irish Examiner to promote this year's awards nationally. The drugs.ie website is now officially the online presence for the awards.

Entrants can choose from one of the categories: (a) Newspaper article; (b) Video feature; (c) Audio feature; (d) Poster design; (e) Cartoon strip.

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The Drug-Related Intimidation Programme

NACDThe issue of family members experiencing intimidation as a result of drug-related debt has become an area of increasing concern across many strands of our society.

To tackle this issue, the ‘Drug-Related Intimidation Programme’ has been established by the National Family Support Network and the Garda National Drugs Unit.

To further promote this initiative, we have produced a promotional video providing information relating to the issue of drug-related intimidation, an overview of the Drug-Related Intimidation Programme, and information on how those affected by this issue can engage with the programme.

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Video: Alcohol Forum Conference - Soapbox Session

NACDThree minute pitches on reducing harmful drinking culture in Ireland filmed at the recent Alcohol Forum Conference. Featuring John Waters, John Logue, Denis Bradley, Fiona Ryan, Eamon O’Kane.

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Policy Library on drugs.ie

Drugs.ie now houses a comprehensive policy library containing more than 75 template policies for drug and alcohol services.

These policies have been developed by the Ana Liffey Drug Project and can be downloaded and adapted to the needs of individual services. Policies have had editorial input from industry leaders from the health and commercial sectors.

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Video: Women and Addiction

Our latest video is a presentation by Marguerite Woods entitled: Don’t you know that it’s different for girls? Women, Drug Use and Children.

The presentation was recorded at the recent seminar on the subject of Women and Addiction, hosted by the SAOL Project, NICDTF and CityWide.

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Responding to Emerging Trends Workshop

Service DirectoryThe Ana Liffey Drug Project recently hosted a workshop facilitated by Mat Southwell aimed at exploring ways that local service providers can work together to respond in a coherent manner to new trends in drug use, in a timely and evidence based manner.

You can now watch a video recording of this workshop online.

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Poll Results

For our most recent poll we attempted to determine levels of understanding among the general public relating to the link between alcohol and cancer. The question was:

Can alcohol cause cancer?

Out of a total of 910 respondents, the results were as follows:

No: 13% (117)
Yes: 75% (687)
Don't know: 12% (105)

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