Drugs including alcohol — DJP (2026)

 

Health Referral Scheme for Drug Use. We need a Well-Resourced Health-Led Approach — Cllr. John Walsh (Labour Party) — Near FM (September 2026)

 

Soundbite 🔊 Can We Provide Full Mental Health, Addiction and Primary Care Services?

 – Near FM (2026)

The “sense of absence” may explain why disconnected teens turn to addictive behaviors — PsyPost (2026)

 

I agree with this! I believe it is important to keep children's and teenagers' minds stimulated, as distinct

from teaching them brain "tricks". I know loads of people who grew / grow up learning loads of things

that are good for their brains but often not good for their mental and emotional development. What do I 

mean? To be blunter I mean that children and teeanagers should be brought up to be holistically 

intelligent instead of just nerds who simply know loads of info but who are not creative.

The “sense of absence” may explain why disconnected teens turn to addictive behaviors –

PsyPost

Sadhguru (351)

 

Note the word "ecstasy". From what I remember of doing some of them when I was young is that 

people use some legal (I am thinking in particular of alcohol although cannabis is legal in some places 

as well) and illegal drugs (like the drug ecstasy or "e" or "yokes" as we called them itself and stronger 

drugs) as they believe there is no other way of experiencing real, natural ecstasy.

I have learned that there are ways of experiencing real, natural ecstasy but you have to find it and in my 

experience often actually create the experience. I can only speak for my own experience but I 

experience this state most usually through spirituality and other things I am passionate about.

Update –

Daniel Suter

 

The Cornmarket Project in Wexford — Paul Delaney — Near FM (2026)

 

Weed — DJP (2026)

 

Prof. Raymond Walley (3)

 

John Templeton

 

Sadhguru (270)

 

 

Prisons today. Alternative sentences for most prisoners? — Saoirse Brady, The Irish Penal Reform Trust — Near FM (2025)

Update from Facebook also shared on other of their social media

Gabor Maté (3)

 

+ More about incense

 

I posted about incense as a complementary therapy on this blog a couple of years ago here.

See this second post below I posted  on my Facebook yesterday.

As a clarification - if you have a wide open space like with a big front room and kitchen in your apartment it may well be safe to have a couple more than 3 incense sticks there but I also have a scented liquid diffuser in my kitchen / front room so I think I am going to just stick to having 3 sticks in my apartment and I am not going to put any in my bedroom as my bedroom door is usually open anyway so I can get the smell of the sticks in the front room.

Prof. Raymond Walley

 Police finally wake up to the dangers of cannabis - The Times

The Clondalkin Drug and Alcohol Task Force — Near FM (2025)

Trevor Bissett

DJP

 

🔊 Increase in overall tax take necessary - Michelle Murphy, Social Justice Ireland @ Near FM (EN/GA) (2025)

 

Michelle - As Béarla / In English

Michelle - As Gaeilge

HBSC report shows remarkable progress in lives of school age children in Ireland — Near FM (2025)

Louise Lunney, Health Promotion Research Centre in the University of Galway

Mí-úsáid cócaon agus drugaí eile mar a bhí sé le linn an ‘Celtic Tiger’ — ExtraG (Bealtaine '25)

 

"Taispeánann an tuarascáil Drug Treatment Demand in Ireland 2024 méadú 300% ar dhaoine ag filleadh ar chóireáil le cócaon mar phríomhfhadhb – ó 692 i 2017 go 2,764 i mbliana.

Chuir an tOllamh O’Gara an milleán ar chultúr na dtithe tábhairne agus an meisceoireacht leanúnach in Éirinn, ag rá: ‘Is é an geata chuig na drugaí go léir ná an t-alcól.’"

https://extrag.ie/2025/05/28/nuacht/slainte/mi-usaid-cocaon/