Demand for addiction services in the midwest has doubled in the last year and the Ana Liffey Project says there's a significant increase in the use of crack cocaine.
A systems accelerant : Pandemic prompted more single rooms in homeless accommodation
Cooperation lead to very few deaths of homeless people in the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic. By Gráinne Ní Aodha Tuesday 23 Feb 2021, 6:01 AM Feb 23rd 2021, 6:01 AM 9,040 Views 2 Comments
People in sleeping bags in the doorway by the famous Rolling Donut kiosk on Dublin s O Connell Street.
Image: Leah Farrell
People in sleeping bags in the doorway by the famous Rolling Donut kiosk on Dublin s O Connell Street.
Image: Leah Farrell
A REPORT HAS found that the Covid-19 pandemic has encouraged more single-occupancy rooms in homeless accommodation, and that measures taken in response to the Covid-19 pandemic could act as a “systems accelerant” for improvements.
Drug-related intimidation is now so rampant in Dublin’s north-east inner city that more than 20pc of people surveyed there have experienced it directly, according to a new report released today.
Violence, threats of harm, vandalism and intimidation are being used not only on people with drug debts and their family members, but anyone even suspected of reporting drug dealing in their area.
The report reveals that over 80pc of respondents to an online survey aimed at those living or working in the area, which encompasses Summerhill, Ballybough, Mountjoy Square, Parnell Street and Gardiner Street, as well as areas of the Docklands, were aware of drug-related intimidation as an issue in their community.
); They smashed every one of her windows : Parents of drug users at high risk of drug threats in Dublin s inner city
A new report on drug-related intimidation wil be launched today. By Stephen McDermott Tuesday 26 Jan 2021, 6:30 AM Jan 26th 2021, 6:30 AM 50,569 Views 46 Comments
Image: Shutterstock/Cindy Goff
Image: Shutterstock/Cindy Goff
PARENTS AND PARTNERS of drug users in Dublin’s north-east inner-city are believed to be almost as likely to experience drug-related intimidation as users themselves, a new report has found.
Around four in five respondents to a survey, carried out as part of a report into drug-related intimidation, believed that parents and partners of drug users were among those at-risk of being threatened.