Funding for drug prevention services will have to be spent in the optimum way over the coming years as resources are set to remain tight,Minister State at the Department of Health Róisín Shortall warned today.
Speaking in Dublin at the National Drugs Conference of Ireland, Ms Shortall - who has responsibility for drugs strategy -said practitioners working in the field of intervention would have to remain open to using evidence based ways of fighting addiction in order to make the most of the limited resources on offer.
“We must ensure the limited public funding that is available is used in the most effective and optimum way,” she said. “We need to use this time, this difficult time of recession, as an opportunity to work more creatively and more collaboratively.”
Source: Irish Times, 03/11/2011
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