The devastating impact crack cocaine can have on families is starting to appear across Tallaght communities, after a number of children were taking into care.
On the radar of drug projects for some time, crack cocaine, which is a form of smokable cocaine, is a highly addictive substance that is becoming part of the poly-drug use culture not only in Tallaght but in communities nationwide.
Local drug workers have told The Echo that people who use drugs ‘recreationally’ are trying crack cocaine, which is highly addictive and can have devastating effects for both those who use drugs occasionally in a social setting and those who have been in rehabilitation or a treatment programme.
One local drug worker told The Echo that a high number of clients on one project are relapsing on crack cocaine, with dealers actively pushing the drug on people with a history of addiction.
The highly addictive nature of the drug has, according to a number of drug workers from across the Tallaght area, also resulted in children from different families been taken into care.
Labour Party councillor and co-ordinator of the Community Drug Treatment Project Mick Duff told The Echo: “Crack cocaine has been on the radar of drug projects for some time now and there is no question surrounding the devastating effects that it can have on individuals and families.
“It is a very dangerous drug and has the capacity to drag a person who has went through rehab right back to the start – and absolutely devastate a life.
Source: Mary Dennehy, The Echo, 30/03/2016
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