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Dr Des Corrigan, Chairperson
Dr Corrigan is Director of the School of Pharmacy, T.C.D. He qualified
as a Pharmacist from U.C.D. in 1965. He has a Ph.D. in Pharmacy and
was elected a Fellow of the Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland in 1989.
He has been involved in the drugs area since 1968 when he and other
colleagues provided an analytical service for the newly formed Drug
Squad. Since 1980 he has been involved in prevention activities working
with teachers, parent groups and healthcare professionals dealing with
factual information on the effects of drugs. Since 1995 he has been
the Irish representative on and acted as Chairperson of (1998-2001)
the Scientific Committee of the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs
and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) – based in Lisbon. He chaired the
Risk Assessment Committee for New Synthetic Drugs set up by the E.U.
Dr. Corrigan also chaired the Dunlaoire/Rathdown Local Drugs Task Force
from 1997 to 2000. He is the author of Facts About Drug Abuse In Ireland,
published by the Health Promotion Unit of the Department of Health
and Children. He has also published scientific studies on ecstasy and
other synthetic drugs in Addiction Biology and the Journal of Pharmacy
and Pharmacology.
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