Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 3 October 2024
Committee on Drugs Use
A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (Resumed)
9:30 am
Mr. Gary Broderick:
To be trauma responsive needs constant reflection on practice. To use the example of urine analysis, when dealing with people who have been sexually abused, we do not need to know about that abuse, but if we force them into observed urine analysis, it will retraumatise them, as will not believing people or not giving them safety when they come into a service. That requires constant reflection by the team providing the services.