Painkiller addictions are one of the hidden consequences of farm accidents, says farm safety campaigner Norma Rohan.
Norma, who grew up in Limerick, works on the family farm in Laois with her husband Brian, and the couple also run Embrace FARM organisation support organisation for farm families who have a loved one to an accident. It also provides support for those who have suffered a serious injury in a farm accident.
Norma emphasises that it is not only physical health that is affected by a farm accident.
The big issues she is seeing are farmers "suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder due to what they lived through and addiction to pain medication because of the constant pain they are in".
Source: Kathleen O'Sullivan, Irish Independent, 11th March 2020
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