Written answers

Thursday, 13 July 2017

Department of Health

Drug Treatment Programmes Places

Photo of Jack ChambersJack Chambers (Dublin West, Fianna Fail)
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600. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons in receipt of opioid substitution treatment outside prisons. [33863/17]

Photo of Catherine ByrneCatherine Byrne (Dublin South Central, Fine Gael)
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The HSE maintains the Central Treatment List, which is a register of all clients in receipt of opioid substitution treatment for problem opiate use in Ireland. As at 31 May 2017, the latest month for which figures are available, 9,638 individuals were in receipt of opioid substitution treatment outside of the prison setting.

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