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
Frank 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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