); 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.
When Matthew McNeive went for a check-up in the dialysis unit in Beaumont Hospital last November, a brief conversation with the receptionist made his blood run cold.
He asked her if she was busy, and she replied: “No. We have lost seven patients to Covid.”
“It really shocked me,” says Matthew (21), from Knock, Co Mayo, who since birth has endured 25 operations, including a kidney transplant in 2010.
Like thousands of renal and transplant patients, Matthew can t understand why his community has been placed seventh in the HSE vaccine priority list. The Covid-19 mortality rate for renal and transplant patients in Ireland is estimated to be as high as 25pc.
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Louise Currie, co-founder of MindSpace Counselling
“There are more people presenting with alcohol issues than there would have been previously,” Currie, co-founder of MindSpace Counselling, says. “Some of these people would have had an unhealthy relationship with alcohol but they were somehow managing it. They were distracted with the gym, with friends, going out; whereas now, in lockdown, they’re in the house and alcohol consumption is increasing.”
Currie says people are drinking earlier in the day, every day and a couple who used to share one bottle of wine a night are now drinking two.
“The clients I work with would be what you’d term ‘functioning alcoholics’ people who still have jobs, people who appear on the outside to have it all together but now family members are noticing because they’re not able to disguise it as well,” she says.