The chairman of a drug treatment programme said that the government needed to give more urgency to the housing crisis.
The biggest obstacle to the long-term recovery of people who have passed through drug addiction is a lack of housing, according to the chairman of a drug treatment centre.
Alan Connolly said that the government needed to give more urgency to the housing crisis in order to better assist people in their recovery.
“The biggest obstacle to long-term recovery is the lack of housing,” said Connolly.
So the question of housing has to be solved so we’re calling… to government to give more urgency to the housing crisis.
Alan Connolly was speaking to TheJournal.ie after the launch of the 2015 annual report for the Coolmine Therapeutic Community.
The Coolmine Therapeutic Community is a drug and alcohol dependency treatment service located in different centres around Dublin.
Founded in 1973, it provides holistic, community-based treatment for clients addicted to substances.
The treatment centre launched its annual report for 2015 yesterday – showing an increase in the number of people using its service.
Source: Cormac Fitzgerald, The Journal, 09/06/16
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