| Title: | The role of family support services in drug prevention: a National Advisory Committee on Drugs: report |
| Authors: | Watters, Niall
Byrne, Duane |
| Affiliation: | Unique Perspectives |
| Publisher: | Stationery Office |
| Issue Date: | Nov-2004 |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10147/248212 |
| Type: | Report |
| Language: | en |
| Description: | The NACD is tasked, as part of its terms of reference, with advising the Government about the
prevention of problem drug taking in Ireland. In December 2001, the NACD published its first report
-Drug Use Prevention, Overview of Research by Dr Mark Morgan, which examined prevention
programmes and methods in considerable depth. It is d ear that prevention efforts both formal and
informal take place in many different settings within the broader community. within schools and
primarily within the home. Arising from the recommendations in the above report, the NACD through
its Prevention Sub Committee commissioned further research. This Report is the result of a study of
Family Support Services and their potential to contribute to drug prevention. The Report emphasises
the preventive role of the family and as a result the key plan that Family Support Services can, often
without realising it, play in strengthening families and their individual members in their responses to
the drugs phenomenon.
As is evidenced by other research the majority of those who seek treatment for heroin addiction are
single and living with their families. The role of the family is, therefore, particularly significant. As the
report makes clear, this can often result in further harm to the family |
| Keywords: | DRUGS MISUSE
POLICY FORMULATION |
| Series/Report no.: | Prn 6791 |
| ISBN: | 0755770161 |
| Appears in Collections: | NACD
|
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