Long, Jean (2005) Merchants Quay Ireland launches its annual review for 2004. Drugnet Ireland, Issue 16, Winter 2005, p. 8.
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Merchants Quay Ireland (MQI) launched its Annual Review 2004 on 16 September 2005. According to the report, the services provide creative and innovative responses to drug use and homelessness in Ireland. The organisation estimated that there are 2,009 homeless drug users in Ireland. A comprehensive set of drug services is provided to drug users through MQI, ranging from needle exchange to reintegration programmes. The numbers of drug users who received services through these programmes in 2004 are presented in the table below.
Name of service |
Type of intervention |
Number of participants |
Outcomes |
Needle Exchange–Health Promotion Unit |
Exchange of injecting equipment Safer injection training Safe sex advice Health and social care services Outreach service |
3,300 (including 450 new cases) 256 workshops Not available Not available
Not available |
Not applicable |
Methadone programme |
Prescribing, counselling and health-care support |
30 |
Not provided |
High Park Residential Programme |
Residential detoxification
Medication-free therapy |
13
58 |
10 successful detoxifications Not provided |
St Francis Farm |
Therapeutic and personal development programme |
22 (18 discharged) |
12 completed 3 months or more |
FAS Community Employment Services |
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120 |
52 gained employment |
MQI completed two important research projects ‘Drug use among the homeless population in Ireland’ and ‘Drug use among new communities in Ireland’ in 2004; the results of these projects were published in 2005 and were covered in issue 14 of Drugnet Ireland.
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