Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 27 June 2024

Committee on Drugs Use

Decriminalisation, Depenalisation, Diversion and Legalisation of Drugs: Discussion

9:30 am

Ms Niamh Eastwood:

Where we have drug dependency among more affluent communities, we are less likely to see them in community drug services because they have the resources to deal with that in a much more private way. They have the social and economic capital to manage it in a way that people from poorer communities do not.