Joint Committee on Drug Use. (2024) Joint Committee on Drugs Use interim report. Dublin: Houses of the Oireachtas.
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The Committee has considered all of the recommendations of the Citizens’ Assembly on Drugs Use and provided a reasoned response to each one based on its work to date. The Committee has published additional recommendations. Those recommendations and the Committee’s reasoned responses are a step along in targeting the urgent changes needed around drug policy and drugs use in Ireland. The Committee Members are alarmed by Ireland’s high rate of drug deaths which has recently been the highest in Europe. The negative effects of drug use impacts all of society but disproportionately affects already disadvantaged groups and communities. The Committee Members know this from their own experiences, and this has been confirmed by the national and international witnesses who appeared before the Committee.
J Health care, prevention, harm reduction and treatment > Harm reduction > Substance use harm reduction
MA-ML Social science, culture and community > Sociocultural discrimination > Prejudice (stigma / discrimination)
MA-ML Social science, culture and community > Social condition > Poverty / deprivation
MM-MO Crime and law > Substance use laws > Drug laws
MP-MR Policy, planning, economics, work and social services > Policy > Policy on substance use
MP-MR Policy, planning, economics, work and social services > Policy > Policy on substance use > Drug decriminalisation or legalisation policy
MP-MR Policy, planning, economics, work and social services > Policy > Policy on substance use > Harm reduction policy
N Communication, information and education > Recommendations
VA Geographic area > Europe > Ireland
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