Results 41-48 of 48 for drugs speaker:Frances Black

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Citizen-Centred Health Care: Civil Engagement (5 Oct 2016)

Frances Black: ...in the charity sector working with the RISE Foundation, which I set up myself, and the lack of resources we have had. We provide a service for family members who have a loved one with an alcohol, drug or gambling problem. Many of these families are in serious crisis with serious mental health issues, particularly partners, mothers, fathers who are suffering horrendously with anxiety and...

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Citizen-Centred Health Care: Civil Engagement (5 Oct 2016)

Frances Black: I am very concerned about this area because we are aware of the relationship between alcohol, drugs and even gambling and mental health and how they are so closely linked. Gambling probably has the highest rate of suicide out of all the addictions. When I worked as a therapist in the Rutland Centre, I do not think I had met anybody in there with an addiction who did not have underlying...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Alcohol Treatment Services (14 Jul 2016)

Frances Black: ...month in Ireland, or three per day, are directly attributable to alcohol, which is frightening. There are almost twice as many alcohol-related deaths as there are deaths as a result of all other drugs combined. Nine hundred people in Ireland are diagnosed with alcohol-related cancers and around 500 people die from these diseases every year. Alcohol is a factor in half of all suicides in...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Alcohol Treatment Services (14 Jul 2016)

Frances Black: ...go, they find it difficult to access services, particularly if they are in counties Galway or Donegal. People in many counties do not know where to get support. We refer them to the website, www.drugs.ie, but it is still difficult to access a service that deals solely with alcohol abuse. We have a significantly unhealthy relationship with alcohol in Ireland. Three people a day die from...

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Jul 2016)

Frances Black: ...in this wonderful country of ours. One in four deaths of young men aged 15 to 39 in Ireland is due to alcohol. There are almost twice as many deaths due to alcohol in Ireland as are due to all other drugs combined. Alcohol was implicated in 137, one in three, of all poisoning deaths in 2013, more than any other single drug. Alcohol poisoning has claimed one life each week. Some 900...

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Jul 2016)

Frances Black: ...of the Children's Rights Alliance, Tanya Ward; and Suzanne Costello from Alcohol Action Ireland. As many Members may know, I hear daily from family members impacted by a loved one's alcohol, drug or gambling problem. Families all over Ireland are devastated by alcohol misuse and the most vulnerable person within the family unit is the child. Children living with parents who drink in a...

Seanad: Mental Health: Statements (22 Jun 2016)

Frances Black: ...intervention and that funding is found for organisations supporting them. On a daily basis, I deal with family members who are absolutely heartbroken because somebody they love has an alcohol, drug or gambling problem. The task before us is huge. It is a difficult task but certainly one we should not shy away from or write a report about. We need direct action. We need to hold...

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Jun 2016)

Frances Black: ...my recovery I became an addiction therapist, and I have seen the issues that have arisen around alcohol and how we are losing our young people to this. We are losing our young people not only to drug problems and gambling but also to alcohol misuse. I wish to highlight the devastating impact of alcohol misuse, drug misuse and gambling on families. I have worked with such families for...