Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 16 October 2025
Committee on Drugs Use
Intergenerational Trauma: Discussion
2:00 am
Mr. Jay Collins:
From talking to people, I will say one thing that I would love to see. We talk about coping skills. Drug education would have nothing to do with substances or drugs. It would have to do with how to cope, manage emotions and do all that we do when we are working with people. I teach people how to use psychoeducation around that. If that could be introduced as part of education or if people learned that at an earlier stage, it would be really helpful for prevention even in terms of trauma, or anything like that.
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