CityWide Conference Report
"Community Drugs Problem: Defining the Problem - Defending the Responses" In this report we summarise the contributions from our speakers at the Citywide Conference on Oct 15th 2010. We have included (where possible) the speakers power-point presentations - click on the link at the bottom of the article to view the presentations.
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Community Drug Problems – Community Responses
Daithi Doolan, CityWide, in his address set out the rationale for the conference, he introduced the concept of a community drugs problem and spoke about how communities have responded with imagination and resilience .
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Pat Carey, Minister for Community, Equality & Gaeltacht Affairs
Minister Carey stressed that partnership is the key to responding to the problems caused by drugs and alcohol and said that he will continue to support a partnership approach in the delivery of the National Drugs Strategy.
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Communities of Interest - Travelling Community
John Paul Collins, Paveet Point, gave an overview of the drugs problem within Traveller communities:There has been a 66% increase in the number of Travellers accessing treatment between 2007 & 2009 and the main problems are with alcohol, heroin, & cocaine...
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Communities of Interest - New Communities
Reginald Okoflex Inya, New Communities' Partnership: advocates for and works with New Communities nationally.
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Communities of Interest - Drug Users Forum
Emily Reaper, UISCE: a drug users' forum based in the North Inner City that was formed to allow service users the opportunity to meet and discuss relevant issues for service users, an example of a recent focus group that was held to talk about the Head Shop substances and how they were affecting service users...
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Communities of Interest - Young LGBT people
Gillian Brien, BeLonGTo: Supports Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender (LGBT) young people (14-23yrs old) in relation to drug and alcohol use.
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Communities of interest - Female sex workers
Karen Murphy - Chrysalis Community Drug Project, set out the aims of her presentation: to give an overview of street work in Dublin; to give an overview of drug using female sex workers needs; and to outline the role of Chrysalis working with this client group.
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Communities of Interest - Homeless
Tony Geoghan, Merchant's Quay Ireland: MQI provide a wide range of services to people who are homeless and for drug users.
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Changing Patterns of Drug Use and Alcohol
Fiona O' Reilly, Department of Anthropology, NUIM, introduced her work as a study of changing patterns of drug use in Inchicore, Rialto, and Bluebell, the areas served by the Canal Communities Local Drugs Task Force (CCLDTF), using data collected from September 2007 until the end of 2008, with some follow-up work in 2009.
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The Alcohol Strategy
Fergus McCabe, CityWide & OFD Community Rep, displayed statistics on alcohol consumption in Ireland and explained that Irish people are among the highest consumers of alcohol in the world. The patterns of drinking are as follows...
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Brian Harvey - KEY NOTE SPEAKER
Citywide commissioned Brian Harvey, a highly respected social researcher to look at: the Impacts of Cuts on Communities and Drugs Services
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Community Responses to Issues of Safety and Intimidation
Johnny Connolly, Drugs and Alcohol Unit, Health Research Board. The issue of drug-related intimidation raises a number of fundamental questions as to the way in which the drugs issue has been responded to since its emergence in the late 1980's. It also reflects the way in which the drugs problem and drug-related crime has impacted so differently on different sections of Irish society.
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Intimidation of Families
Megan O' Leary carried out research on intimidation of families through the Family Support Network, here are some of her key findings..
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Local Response to Community Safety and Intimidation
Tony McCarthaigh, Rialto Community Drug Team has been working in Rialto and in South Inner City for a long time as a drug worker and community development worker - dealing with the symptoms and causes of addiction and social exclusion - a world not simple and not black and white - but complicated and messy. This messiness is seen, amongst other things, in anti- social activities, intimidation and in communities feeling unsafe, insecure and abandoned.
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