In the second of a two-part investigation into Ireland’s drug treatment services, Aoife Connors hears from those at the other end of the treatment protocol and finds out what they think needs to change.
Jennifer’s story
“I began taking drugs when I was nine years old. I was taking Valium tablets out of my mother’s handbag and epilepsy tablets from my sister. I was taking anything I could get my hands on,” 47-year-old methadone client Jennifer (not her real name) recently told Irish Medical Times.
Currently attending Dr Austin O’Carroll’s Mountjoy Street Medical Practice, Jennifer believes it is because of the mental abuse she suffered as a child that she starting taking drugs. “When I was nine, I was a wild child. I ran away all the time.”
Source: Aoife Connors, Irish Medical Times, 01/06/2011
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