This document reported on a forum on drugs and related issues held in Waterford in June 1998 by the Community Based Drugs Initiative (CBDI). The CBDI consisted of local people and groups from the Larchville, Lisduggan and Ballybeg areas of Waterford city, and included representatives from local statutory and voluntary groups. In setting up the forum, 26 local organisations in the community, statutory and voluntary sectors were consulted, producing a wide-ranging agenda. Seven workshops were held, covering issues relating to drug misuse, its effects on the individual, on the family, on communities, and issues of supply and demand, prevention, treatment and rehabilitation.