Feature: Risk and Protection Factors for Substance Use Among Young People
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Lets Talk About Drugs: Media Awards 2011
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 The details of the 2011 “Let’s Talk About Drugs” Media Awards were announced earlier this year.
The awards, which are in their fifth year, were created to encourage the journalists and reporters of tomorrow to start writing and talking about the drugs issue in Ireland today.
Full details and a supporting video are provided on drugs.ie
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Upcoming Training Courses
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 We have recently added some upcoming courses and training programmes relating to drugs / alcohol to our training section.
If your organisation offers a course / training programme in this area and would like it included in the drugs.ie training section, please forward details to info@drugs.ie
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drugs.ie reaches over 100,000 people in 2010
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The drugs.ie website continued to firmly establish itself as the 'one-stop-shop' for all drug and alcohol related information and support in Ireland in 2010.
The total unique visits to the site in 2010 were 109,907.
When compared to total unique visits in 2009, this represents a 20% annual increase in trafic to the site in 2010.
A recent poll on drugs.ie posed the following question:
Would you like to see a banning of alcohol sponsorship in sport?
Out of a total of 309 respondents, the results were as follows:
No: 37% (115)
Yes: 55% (169)
Not sure: 8% (25)
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Towards the end of last year, the National Advisory Committee on Drugs (NACD) published a piece of research entitled "Risk and Protection Factors for Substance Use among Young People: A comparative study of early school-leavers and school attending students."