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Children Talk About Living with Problem Drug and Alcohol Use Drugs Come Issue 34 drugnet Summer 2010 Ireland alcohol and drug research newsletter Update on Drugs come under psychoactive head new department shop products Following the reorganisation of government departments with pull-out chart announced on 23 March 2010, the Office of the Minister See pages 15 – 18 for Drugs (OMD) is now located in the new Department of Community, Equality and Gaeltacht Affairs (DCEGA). Chief Whip Pat Carey TD, who was Minister of State with responsibility for drugs strategy and community affairs for 11 months between June 2007 and May 2008, To have Drugnet Ireland delivered to was appointed Minister for Community, Equality and your desktop, sign up on the Gaeltacht Affairs, including responsibility for the National NDC website at Drugs Strategy and the OMD. www.drugsandalcohol.ie Continued on p. 2 > Substance use in Children talk about living with the Midlands problem drug and alcohol use > Update on ‘She knew not to go near me in the morning ’til I had my foil, then ‘mummy would play’. In drug-related deaths the mornings the sickness was the worst… I’d just be telling her to get away. Once I had the gear [drugs] into me I’d be the best mother on the earth.’ > Non-fatal overdoses These words were spoken by a mother of a four-year-old girl interviewed as part of a research study in Ireland published last year. It is quoted in a new EMCDDA thematic paper on > HSE and drug European children’s experiences and perceptions of drug and alcohol issues, published to mark 1 service delivery International Children’s Day on 1 June. > Evaluating national drugs strategies > UN body reviews drug policy > Case management guidebook for homeless and drug services > Legal responses to new psychoactive substances in Europe > Attitudes towards alcohol: Eurobarometer survey Continued on p. 3 Improving people’s health through research and information drugnet Ireland Drugs come under new department (continued) contents Explaining the reconfiguration of the DCEGA, the Taoiseach said:1 1 Drugs come under new department It is important, while addressing the priority issues in responding to unemployment and driving economic recovery, that we do not lose 1 Children talk about living sight of the importance of social development, the targeting of the with problem drug and most vulnerable and support for those working to make a difference alcohol use right across our communities. I have therefore decided that the 3 Cuan Mhuire wins Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs will become international quality the Department of Community, Equality and Gaeltacht Affairs and will improvement award incorporate responsibility for social inclusion policy and family policy from the Department of Social and Family Affairs and for equality, 4 Update on drug-related deaths disability, integration and human rights from the Department of Justice, 5 Non-fatal overdoses and Equality and Law Reform. drug-related emergencies In the reorganisation, former Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs, Eamon Ó Cuív TD, 7 Drugnet digest went as minister to the new Department of Social Protection, and the former minister of state with 8 HSE aims to strengthen responsibility for drugs strategy and community affairs, John Curran TD, was appointed Government drug services delivery Chief Whip. 9 Guidebook on case management in homeless Mary White TD was appointed Minister of State at the and drug services departments of Justice and Law Reform, Community, Equality and Gaeltacht Affairs, and Education and Skills, 11 Using scientific knowledge with special responsibility for equality and human to inform drug policy rights, and integration. It may be expected that the 12 Evaluating national drugs issue of drugs will come within her purview as well. In strategies recent years, explicit policy commitments to recognise 14 UN body reviews drug policy and address the human rights issues involved in drug control have been made at both UN and EU levels.2 15 Update on psychoactive With regard to equality, Drugnet Ireland regularly reports substances sold in head shops and on line on research highlighting how the drugs issue impacts on members of groups vulnerable to discrimination 18 EMCDDA–Europol and provided for under Ireland’s equality legislation, report on control of new including young people, women, and members of the psychoactive substances LGBT community, of new Irish communities and of the 19 Legal responses to new Traveller community.3 psychoactive substances in Europe 21 Pompidou Group celebrates its first 30 years (Brigid Pike) 22 ICDT launches three-year 1. Cowen B (2010, 23 March) Parliamentary Debates Dáil Éireann (Official report: unrevised): strategic plan Nomination of members of government: motion. Vol. 705, No. 1, p. 9. 23 Guidelines for peer-led Available at http://debates.oireachtas.ie/Xml/30/DAL20100323.PDF family support groups 2. See Pike B (2009) Development of Ireland’s drug strategy 2000–2007. Overview Series 8. Dublin: 24 Attitudes towards alcohol: Health Research Board. pp. 99–101. Special Eurobarometer 3. Under the Equal Status Acts 2000–2004, discrimination is prohibited on nine grounds, including 25 Report on drug and alcohol gender, marital status, family status, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, race, and use in the Midland region membership of the Traveller community. 26 From Drugnet Europe 27 Online course in evidence- based practice for drug prevention workers 28 In brief 29 Recent publications 30 Upcoming events 2 drugnet Ireland Children talk about living with problem drug and alcohol use (continued) The purpose of the paper is to enhance drug policies and In concluding the report, the authors make several interventions for children and young people by highlighting observations: children’s and young people’s perspectives and their needs. ■ given the complexity and diversity of children’s Comprising quotations selected from research studies and experiences, correspondingly flexible and holistic governmental and non-governmental reports in 14 EU interventions need to be developed; countries, including Ireland, the thematic paper gives voice to four main issues: ■ more qualitative drug and alcohol research is needed if Europe is to understand the real needs of children and ■ living with harmful parental drinking or drug taking young people and to implement fully the United Nations (neglect, violence, abuse, stigma or shame), Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC); ■ being separated from parents and looked after by ■ large numbers of parents with alcohol problems may relatives, foster carers or institutions, generate more problems overall for children in the EU ■ experiences and perceptions of alcohol and drug than the smaller number of children affected by parents consumption, and with illicit drug problems; ■ experiences and perceptions of interventions to address ■ the quotations highlight children’s extreme vulnerability, alcohol and drug consumption. and yet also their desire and capacity to ‘cope’ with difficulties and to make rational judgements about The authors consulted three Irish sources2 and used quotations their own situation based on objective information and from them to highlight issues associated with living with personal experience; parents engaging in harmful substance use, and children’s and young people’s own experience of substance use. For ■ while quality care and other drug and alcohol example, an Irish child care worker is quoted on the effect of interventions are needed to grant children in the EU their living with a parent engaging in harmful substance use: right to ‘harmonious development and protection from harmful influences’, abuse, neglect and exploitation, ‘They become adults very young; they’re like the carer the root cause for many children facing both drug and to their parent. They actually know, you can see it in them, that they know when their parent isn’t well… it alcohol problems are poverty and social exclusion. seems to be a constant worry.’ (Brigid Pike) Looking back, a young Irish woman who had been abused 1. Olszewski D, Burkhart G and Bo A (2010) Children’s by a member of her extended family during her childhood voices: experiences and perceptions of European children on recalled her teenage years: drug and alcohol issues. Thematic paper. Luxembourg: ‘I turned 15 that January, I just went wild then you The Publications Office of the European Union. Available know after that like. I did have problems at home … at www.emcdda.europa.eu Like when I was growing up, that would have been the 2. The three Irish research studies used in the EMCDDA start of it, but then I just used to go wild you know with thematic paper were Bates T, Illback RJ, Scanlan F and the problems and the issues that I did have, I’d end up Carroll L (2009) Somewhere to turn to, someone to talk going drinking and taking drugs, you know, and not to. Dublin: Headstrong – The National Centre for Youth having any, no self-respect or anything for myself.’ Mental Health; Mayock P (2000) Choosers or losers: influences on young people’s choices about drugs in inner- city Dublin. Dublin: Children’s Research Centre, TCD; Mayock P and Carr N (2008) Not just homelessness … A study of ‘out of home’ young people in Cork city. Dublin: Children’s Research Centre, TCD. These three research reports are available at www.drugsandalcohol.ie Cuan Mhuire wins international quality improvement award Cuan Mhuire, which has provided detoxification and Fitzgerald said: ‘This Award shows how vocationally driven residential rehabilitation services in Ireland since 1966, has organisations such as Cuan Mhuire can deliver cost-effective won the prestigious CHKS Quality Improvement Award services with the highest possible standards of care. The 2010. This international award recognises significant intrinsic value of each human being before God demands improvements in patient care and patient experience, as well no less than our committed love.’ Cuan Mhuire provides a as in staff welfare, safety and morale.
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