Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 19 September 2024

Committee on Drugs Use

Decriminalisation, Depenalisation, Diversion and Legalisation of Drugs: Discussion (Resumed)

9:30 am

Photo of Neasa HouriganNeasa Hourigan (Dublin Central, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I apologise for interrupting, but my understanding from having spoken recently to a GP is that if I work in the drugs sector as, say, a youth worker, or if I know somebody who I think might go into overdose, I need to go to a GP and get a prescription for that person. If I then meet someone who is in the middle of an overdose and give him or her naloxone, I then have to go back to the GP to explain myself and get another prescription. That does not lend itself to emergencies, considering that it is a drug that has no impact on somebody who takes it for no reason.

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