Written answers

Thursday, 14 December 2017

Department of Health

Drug Treatment Programmes Data

Photo of Billy KelleherBilly Kelleher (Cork North Central, Fianna Fail)
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422. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons in receipt of opioid substitution treatment outside prisons. [53873/17]

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 October 2017, the latest month for which figures are available, 9,674 individuals were in receipt of opioid substitution treatment outside of the prison setting.

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