In recent years there has been much hype about our drugs problems, but usually when people talk about drugs, they are not talking about the most prevalent and most abused drug in the country – alcohol. Irish people spend more on alcohol annually that any other people.

Around 250,000 people in Ireland are alcoholics yet just a fifth are receiving treatment, it was claimed today.

ALMOST 250,000 people in Ireland are alcoholics yet just a fifth are receivingtreatment. More than a third of all drinkers binge, with the cost of tackling alcohol-related problems soaring to over €900 million-a-year, according to the country’s leading mental health hospital.

Alcohol companies are in the business of shareholder value, like every other kind of company.

A WATERFORD TD has spoken out over what he has described as “the blatant marketing of alcohol products to young people”.

The is no political will within the Government to tackle alcoholism, a Fianna Fáil backbencher claimed tonight.

ALCOHOL is a “fundamental cause” of the massive increase in suicide in recent years, an Oireachtas sub-committee heard yesterday.

YOU’RE a couple, maybe married for a while, and you’ve made one of the biggest decisions of your time together.

FOR JENNIFER, coming home from work before her husband was the worst. She would shake as she turned the key and entered a spotless and silent house.

THE Department of Health's forthcoming crackdown on alcohol advertising was a "whitewash," an alcohol expert said yesterday.

THE Taoiseach’s plan to restrict drink advertising and ban below cost selling in bars will do little to stem the current explosion in alcohol consumption, according to one of Ireland’s leading psychiatrists.