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Long-awaited services for people with dual diagnosis with both mental health and drug issues have been announced, but questions remain on implementation
New laws to allow pubs and nightclubs to stay open later will increase alcohol-related disease and pile pressure on our already strained health services, the Department of Health has warned.
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A rise in alcohol delivery services since the beginning of the pandemic is leading to illegal behaviour, according to a harmful drinking charity.
Spokespeople from Alcohol Forum have said that “really risky practices are creeping in” around drinks sales with greater enforcement needed against illegal delivery services as well as tougher regulation for the licensed off-sales trade.
Paula Leonard, the organisation’s lead in community action, says
24-hour “dial a drink” services are operating “outside any licensing regime”, mainly in Dublin but springing up in provincial towns countrywide during the crisis. We ve been aware of this back as far as 2012, she told The Pat Kenny Show.