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

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

JJ Clarke

7:36 PM - 20 Jan 2022

The Last Word With Matt Cooper

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

JJ Clarke

7:36 PM - 20 Jan 2022

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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.

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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