HSE’s Safer Nightlife Programme will be providing harm reduction outreach teams and drug testing at festivals this summer, with the aim of increasing understanding of drug trends and reducing harm ⁦Hot Press⁩ hotpress.com/sex-drugs/hse-…

Health officials say they are concerned about the use of a new drug HHC. The drug is currently legally sold in vapes.

Today the HSE launched its Safer Nightlife Programme aimed at reducing the potential harm caused by drugs at summer music festivals.

Paul Quinn reports ⤵️

'Seven new substances have been found in Ireland since the HSE started a new drug-testing programme at music festivals in 2022'
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HSE Safer Nightlife Programme at The Grand Social (Photos) via Hot Press
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'Health officials are expecting to see “more potent” drugs circulating at this year’s festivals with the potential to cause greater harm to users'
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This summer, the HSE Safer Nightlife Programme will be at four events to provide outreach and 'back of house' substance analysis.

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🎪 Mind yourself and others at festivals this summer.
The HSE Drugs.ie #SaferNightlife Programme launching today will provide 'back of house' drug checking at four festivals, as well as integrating with the EU web survey on drugs.
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Time for a panel discussion this morning at the launch of our 2024 Safer Nightlife Programme.
Speakers on the panel today are: Sè McCormack, Sinead McNamara, Nicki Killeen, Louise McSharry, Ashling Egan and Martin Smyth.
#ReduceTheHarms

Today we're launching our Safer Nightlife Programme for summer 2024, including partnership with four events to provide 'back of house' drug checking and the EU Crisscross Project.

Get information and resources at drugs.ie/festivals

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Take part in the 2024 EU Web Survey on Drugs with 36 countries to learn about drug use in Ireland.
You can share your experiences to help us capture the latest drug trends, your response is anonymous.

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#IrishDrugTrends | #EWSD24

We’re taking part in the 2024 EU Web Survey on Drugs with 36 countries to learn about drug use in Ireland.
Anonymously share your experiences to help us capture the latest drug trends
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Want to help improve Irish research and drug harm reduction?

Anonymously share your experiences in this year’s European Web Survey on Drugs to help capture the most up to date situation in Ireland.

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#IrishDrugTrends #TalkDrugs

Listen back to our feature on Drivetime RTE about the EU drugs agency EU Web Survey on Drugs 📻

We're working with Drugs Library to find out more about current and new drug use trends in Ireland to help inform our work!

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#IrishDrugTrends

'THE HSE IS calling for people aged 18 and over who have used drugs at least once in the past year to fill out a survey to help discover drug trends and inform harm reduction needs in Ireland'

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#EWSD24 #IrishDrugTrends

People who use drugs across Ireland urged to fill in online survey
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The lab network who responded to #Nitazene outbreaks have published a short communication
'Identification of N-pyrrolidino protonitazene in powders sold as heroin and associated with overdose clusters in Dublin and Cork, Ireland'

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Are you a medical professional?

In partnership with NPICIreland - National Poisons Information Centre we have developed factsheets on #Nitazenes and #SyntheticCannabinoids to raise awareness of these emerging trends, signs of toxicity, management and responses.

You can download from: drugs.ie/resources/fact…

Todays media highlights our Letter in Addiction Journal on the emergence of nitazenes on the Irish heroin market and preparing for future outbreaks, which includes recommendations on resourcing early warning mechanisms following 3 outbreaks since November
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