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Over Half Of Irish Students Have Used An Illicit Drug: Survey Finds

20 January 2022 - 7 mins
Podcast Series The Last Word with Matt Cooper

Data from a recent show that over 1 in 2 Irish students has taken illicit drugs in their lifetime.

One in three will have taken an illicit drug in the last 12 months and 1 in 5 will have taken drugs in the previous month.

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Michael Byrne, Head of University College Cork (UCC) Student Health and lead of the DUHEI Project team and Conor Gallagher, Crime Correspondent, Irish Times joined the Last Word to discuss.

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