As drug-related intimidation continues to plague communities, breaking-up families and pushing parents and grandparents into debt, a pro-active community seminar on how to address the issue will take place next week on Wednesday, May 11.
Open to the entire community of South Dublin County, the seminar has been called by South Dublin’s Joint Policing Committee as a follow-up to a seminar and series of workshops held in 2012.
Since then, drug-related intimidation has remained an underlying issue across local communities – with cocaine use believed to be a contributing factor.
According to a body of research carried out by the CityWide Drugs Crisis Campaign, a national network of community activists and community organisations, nearly half of the incidents reported saw the debt paid – with, after the drug user, the intimidation or violence directed at the mother.
The research, which was carried out with the 13 drugs task forces nationwide, also found that the top three forms of intimidation included verbal threats, physical violence and damage to home or property.
A number of people were also forced to sell or hold drugs or conceal cash.
Speaking to The Echo, Grace Hill, co-ordinator of the Tallaght Drugs and Alcohol Task Force said that the findings by CityWide are mirrored locally.
Source: Mary Dennehy, The Echo, 10/05/16
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