Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 13 October 2021

Joint Committee On Health

Impact of Covid-19 on Addiction Services: Discussion

Ms Serena Bryans:

I am not sure I can give that question with the answer it deserves, but I will tell the Deputy where we would come from on it. This goes back to what I said earlier about building and investing in recovery capital. Part of that relates to the destigmatisation of recovery. If people, and particularly those in marginalised communities, can see recovery normalised in their communities and in the country, it would go some way towards helping them to begin to access services. In some of the forgotten communities the Deputy spoke about, there is a particular stigma attached to accessing recovery services. If we can destigmatise that and build recovery capital for communities and personal recovery capital, it would provide more of an opportunity for people to access these services. Again, it comes back to funding, as it has time and time again. Do we have the wherewithal to deal with these people adequately when they access these services? However, the problem at the moment is that they are not accessing the services.

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