A constant ‘battle’ for funding has led to the closure of a 30-year old award-winning national drug prevention and advisory service at a time when, its founder says, teenagers as young as 14 are using heroin.

Irish businesses are losing millions of euro each year through workplace accidents caused by drugs and alcohol misuse, according to one of Ireland’s leading drug abuse experts.

Somewhere late at night in June, after crossing the Mississippi, the legs will begin to burn and the dark night will close in. That’s when the cyclist begins to question their sanity