In a submission to the National Drugs Strategy 2017, a coalition of community drug projects called for a concerted reinvestment by the State in local drug structures — structures which have been decimated by a cumulative 37% cut in funding over a six-year period.
Citywide Drugs Crisis Campaign said that since 1996 — when current drug structures were set up — the drug problem in economically marginalised communities had become “chronic, deep-rooted, and embedded”.
It said that a community drug problem developed where there was both a high concentration of drug problems and a lack of resources to address them.
Source: Cormac O’Keeffe, The Irish Examiner, 24/02/17
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