Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 26 March 2015

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children

Drug Addiction and Recovery Models: Discussion

9:30 am

Photo of Billy KelleherBilly Kelleher (Cork North Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I have a question on methadone and our obsession with it. Although individual pathways for users were mentioned, they always end up on methadone treatment programmes. One can argue that we do not have individual pathways to recovery. Is there any use of other heroin substitutes such as buprenorphine? We seem to have no individual pathways to recovery because everybody is on methadone. It cannot be suitable for everybody.

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