Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 25 September 2025

Committee on Drugs Use

Family Supports: Discussion

2:00 am

Ms Gwen McKenna:

Family Addiction Support Network, FASN, has family peer support groups and the family members answered a FASN questionnaire and we learned the following. About 85% of those families had paid debts and they said they never mentioned that they had paid debts because it has become normalised for them. So another perspective is that families have accepted that this is what they will have to do.

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