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Domville House. (2000) Domville House: Eastern Health Board HIV and addictions service, Ballymun. First annual report 1996-99. Ballymun: Domville House.

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Domville House is a community-based addiction centre based in Ballymun that provides a multidisciplinary approach to prevention, treatment and rehabilitation. It promotes a drug-free lifestyle, has developed an outreach service for reaching local drug misusers and encourages them to move towards a more normal existence. Since its creation in 1996 to 1999, the centre has admitted 428 people and discharged 182. The mean age for those seeking treatment was 26, with a gender proportion of 34% female and 66% male. Eighty five percent of those attending Domville House were unemployed, and 91% were heroin users, 73% of whom were intravenous drug users.


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