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

Dr. Eamon Keenan:

In terms of Know the Score, it was rolled out through the Department of Education to secondary schools. We have information regularly on our drugs.iewebsite targeting young people. We have a particularly strong collaboration with the Union of Students in Ireland, looking at resources available for all higher education institutes in this country. We think it is a very important element. As the committee will know, in the context of the reopening of society again in October of last year, we produced information identifying the harm that could be associated with substance abuse as the night-time economy emerged. It is an area on which we will be focusing as the night-time economy is opened up again. It is important to recognise there can be risks associated with substance use - alcohol and drugs - in that economy and it is important we address those risks through askaboutalcohol.ieand drugs.ieand the campaigns we have developed that regard.

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