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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