Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 24 October 2024
Committee on Drugs Use
Family and Community: Discussion
9:30 am
Mr. Thomas McCarthy:
I will give a very quick example. A nephew of a friend of mine cut his wrists and threw himself off a balcony a few weeks ago. He went to the casualty ward, obviously. His wrists were nearly cut right to the bone and he had thrown himself over a balcony. He got let out of the casualty ward. They had to take him to the house just to keep him safe. They let him out of the casualty ward and gave him an appointment for a psychologist two days later or something. He went to the psychologist who had a conversation with him. He told the psychologist he was smoking weed in a vape and he was told he needed to get off the vape first. He definitely should have gone in somewhere, 100%.
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