Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 19 January 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

National Drugs Strategy: Minister of State at the Department of Health

Photo of Frank FeighanFrank Feighan (Sligo-Leitrim, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The best way forward to me is the national drugs strategy. We received more than 20,000 submissions in 2017 and we have had a midterm review. It is a health-led approach. I grew up in the 1980s. There was not a drug problem as such. We had a drug problem but it was alcohol and tobacco. We did not deal with alcohol very well. The way we deal with these things is by destigmatising addiction and working with all the stakeholders and communities to address the reasons these things happen in many marginalised areas. I will bring in Dr. Keenan if the Deputy wants to ask him something.

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