Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 16 October 2025

Committee on Drugs Use

Intergenerational Trauma: Discussion

2:00 am

Dr. Sharon Lambert:

I wish to clarify one of the things I said in relation to drugs education. It is important to educate around harm reduction but what happens is that it is introduced quite late. In primary school students learn about well-being in a broad setting. We know that young people start to use drugs in early adolescence and drug taking is sometimes part of risk-taking behaviour. We ought to do the harm reduction piece at that stage. That is also important.

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