Groups representing families affected by addiction and people who have used drugs have strongly criticised the Department of Health in excluding them from developing the next national drugs strategy (NDS). Family Addiction Recovery Ireland (FARI) and Uisce appeared before the first public sitting of a reconstituted Oireachtas Committee on Drugs, charged with making recommendations toContinue reading “Groups representing families of addicts hit out at being left out of forming national drugs strategy”
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Questions over ‘incomprehensible’ exclusion of community groups from drugs strategy steering group
The exclusion of community, family, peer, and traveller groups as well as local drug task forces from a department of health steering committee overseeing the development of the next national drugs strategy has been described as “incomprehensible”. The Oireachtas drugs committee decided on Thursday to ask the minister of State for the national drugs strategyContinue reading “Questions over ‘incomprehensible’ exclusion of community groups from drugs strategy steering group”
”FAMILIES ON THE FRONT LINE”
It’s more than 30 years since Phyllis Corish – who had just lost her 29-year-old brother and 34-year-old sister to drugs within weeks of each other – walked into the newly opened Rialto Community Drug Team in Dublin looking for help. Heroin flooded the Irish capital back in the eighties. Hotspots including the housing schemes of FatimaContinue reading “”FAMILIES ON THE FRONT LINE””
HSE Emerging Drug Trend Advisory Notification…
This advisory notice has been issued by the HSE National Clinical Lead for Addiction Services to notify service providers of the on-going risk of counterfeit benzodiazepines containing new psychoactive substances (NPS).NPS or new types of benzodiazepines appearing on the market are of particular concern due to the high potency of these substances even at lowContinue reading “HSE Emerging Drug Trend Advisory Notification…”
Rialto Community Drug Team 