Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 24 October 2024

Committee on Drugs Use

Family and Community: Discussion

9:30 am

Mr. Eddie D'Arcy:

In general, we have to accept that the medical profession and the hospitals are under pressure and often see someone's drug issue as being sort of self-inflicted. There is still a bit of a sense of that and they think there is nothing they can do. They do not really want them in the casualty departments. Even when we bring people to hospital for physical ailments, you get the sense that they do not really want this person there. In fact, if we were not there with them, they------