politics – Rialto Community Drug Team

Groups representing families of addicts hit out at being left out of forming national drugs strategy

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”

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”