Alcohol Conference
Alcohol Action Ireland will hold their annual conference, ‘The Fear’: Alcohol and Mental Health in Ireland’ today. It will hear fromexpert speakers discuss how alcohol is impacting on mental health in Ireland. A recent study of suicide in Ireland found that half of those who took their own lives had abused alcohol in the previous 12 months. Alcohol-related disorders accounted for 1 in 10 first admissions to Irish psychiatric hospitals in 2011. Joining Sean were two people who will be speaking at the conference. John Higgins, a Mayo father whose 19-year-old son died by suicide in 2011 and by Limerick ...
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