Seanad debates
Wednesday, 19 February 2003
National Drugs Strategy 2001-2008: Statements.
The Minister of State indicated that he will initiate a new programme for schools, starting in September 2003. This is an important development. Children should be shown the areas that have been affected by the drugs crisis. If the schools programme in question operates on a nationwide basis and children are informed of the problem of drugs, these children must be shown the type of environment that obtains in the communities to which I refer. Middle Ireland seems prepared to accept a subculture which has left many housing estates in areas of the country that have experienced phenomenally difficult times ravaged by the drugs problem. Children should be confronted by this so they see the harmful effects of the drugs that have devastated these communities.
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