2020 Community Sector Submission to Rapid Assessment of Impact of Covid on NDS

2020 Community Sector Submission to Rapid Assessment of Impact of Covid on NDS

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Summary

Community drug problems and drug-related harms continue to reflect and exacerbate existing social and spatial inequalities in Ireland, as evidenced by Trutz Haas1 in research undertaken for the Dept. of Health, and the experience of Covid has highlighted the link between drugs and wider socio-economic issues. The extent of poverty has been brought out into the open, telling us the story of people on the margins, living on a precipice, treading a line, just about able to keep going, depending on a range of supports that have all been stopped at the same time as a result of Covid-19.