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””
”Council says it’s done waiting for developer to build a Dublin 8 sports pitch and has a new plan to get it done”
(St Teresa’s Garden:Credit Michael Lanigan) Dublin Inquirer Dublin City Council is looking at working with the Land Development Agency (LDA) to develop a “municipal pitch” and changing rooms at St Teresa’s Gardens in Dublin 8, council officials have confirmed. “Once planning is granted DCC will jointly develop the pitch and changing rooms with the LDA,”Continue reading “”Council says it’s done waiting for developer to build a Dublin 8 sports pitch and has a new plan to get it done””
Rialto Community Drug Team 