DRUGS Minister Aodhan O Riordain has pledged that supervised injection centres will be in place in Dublin city by next year.
The clinics will also be rolled out to Cork, Galway and Limerick, according to the Minister, who was speaking today at the London School of Economics.
Mr O Riordain said that he hopes the new bill would be enacted “early next year” followed by regulations, meaning the State’s first injection room will open in the capital.
He said he believes there needs to be a “cultural shift” in our dealings with drug abuse.
But the Minister said that he doesn’t imagine “free-for-all” facilities for drug addicts.
“I am firmly of the view that there needs to be a cultural shift in how we regard substance misuse if we are to break this cycle and make a serious attempt to tackle drug and alcohol
addiction,” said Mr O Riordain.
“These are clinically controlled environments which aim to engage hard-to-reach populations of drug users, including homeless drug users who would otherwise take drugs in the open, creating risks to themselves and the public,” he added.
Source: Claire Murphy, Herald.ie, 02/11/15
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