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Reducing Harm, Supporting Recovery A health-led response to drug and alcohol use in Ireland 2017-2025

Hdl Handle:
http://hdl.handle.net/10147/621495
Title:
Reducing Harm, Supporting Recovery A health-led response to drug and alcohol use in Ireland 2017-2025
Authors:
Department of Health (DoH)
Publisher:
Department of Health (DoH)
Issue Date:
17-Jul-2017
URI:
http://hdl.handle.net/10147/621495
Item Type:
Report
Language:
en
Description:
Reducing Harm, Supporting Recovery sets out the Government’s strategy to address the harm caused by substance misuse in our society up to 2025. It identifies a set of key actions to be delivered between 2017 and 2020, and provides an opportunity for the development of further actions from 2021 to 2025 to address needs that may emerge later on in the lifetime of the strategy. The strategy aims to provide an integrated public health approach to substance misuse. Substance misuse means the harmful or hazardous use of psychoactive substances, including alcohol, illegal drugs and the abuse of prescription medicines. The public consultation which informed the strategy highlighted changing attitudes towards people who use drugs, with calls for drug use to be treated first and foremost as a health issue. Ireland’s previous national drugs strategies covered the period from 2001 to 2008 1 and 2009 to 2016 2 respectively. Both strategies aimed to reduce the harm caused by the misuse of drugs, through a concerted focus on supply reduction, prevention, treatment, rehabilitation and research. The new strategy will also advocate a harm reduction approach, but will place a greater emphasis on supporting a health-led response to drug and alcohol use in Ireland.
Keywords:
DRUGS MISUSE; ALCOHOL MISUSE; RECOVERY

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DC FieldValue Language
dc.contributor.authorDepartment of Health (DoH)en
dc.date.accessioned2017-07-20T07:47:06Z-
dc.date.available2017-07-20T07:47:06Z-
dc.date.issued2017-07-17-
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10147/621495-
dc.descriptionReducing Harm, Supporting Recovery sets out the Government’s strategy to address the harm caused by substance misuse in our society up to 2025. It identifies a set of key actions to be delivered between 2017 and 2020, and provides an opportunity for the development of further actions from 2021 to 2025 to address needs that may emerge later on in the lifetime of the strategy. The strategy aims to provide an integrated public health approach to substance misuse. Substance misuse means the harmful or hazardous use of psychoactive substances, including alcohol, illegal drugs and the abuse of prescription medicines. The public consultation which informed the strategy highlighted changing attitudes towards people who use drugs, with calls for drug use to be treated first and foremost as a health issue. Ireland’s previous national drugs strategies covered the period from 2001 to 2008 1 and 2009 to 2016 2 respectively. Both strategies aimed to reduce the harm caused by the misuse of drugs, through a concerted focus on supply reduction, prevention, treatment, rehabilitation and research. The new strategy will also advocate a harm reduction approach, but will place a greater emphasis on supporting a health-led response to drug and alcohol use in Ireland.en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherDepartment of Health (DoH)en
dc.subjectDRUGS MISUSEen
dc.subjectALCOHOL MISUSEen
dc.subjectRECOVERYen
dc.titleReducing Harm, Supporting Recovery A health-led response to drug and alcohol use in Ireland 2017-2025en
dc.typeReporten
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