Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 17 January 2019
Public Accounts Committee
2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons
9:00 am
Jonathan O'Brien (Cork North Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source
People have to go cold turkey straight away, they cannot, for example, be weaned off their prescription drugs. If a person has a serious addiction to Xanax, D5s or D10s, there is no step-down facility in place to wean him or her off that once he or she comes into a prison setting,. It is a case of cold turkey and counselling.
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