Young people attracted to lifestyle of criminals in trade, support worker Sue Collins says.
A mini criminal assets bureau should be established in areas worst affected by substance abuse to seize the assets of those known to be enriched by the drugs trade, a campaigner has said.
Sue Collins, founder of Addiction Response Crumlin (ARC), was speaking at the publication of research into dealers’ intimidation of families, conducted by the CityWide Drugs Crisis Campaign.
Ms Collins, whose organisation has supported hundreds of families affected by drugs over the past two decades, said: “In Crumlin we have been calling for a local, mini-Cab to take the local ‘big boys’ out of circulation. The young people, they see how these people grow in prosperity from the drugs trade, how they have the new clothes, the cars, the foreign holidays.”
Source: Kitty Holland, The Irish Times, 17/02/16
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