Alcohol ‘more damaging than drugs’

ALCOHOL is doing more damage to Irish society than illegal drugs, a leading researcher has warning.

Dr Deirdre Mongan, co-author of a Health Research Board (HRB) report highlighting the social consequences of alcohol abuse said “without a shadow of a doubt”, alcohol was posing a bigger problem than drugs.

Dr Mongan, who works in the alcohol and drug research unit of the HRB, said the legality of alcohol was the only thing that separated the two.