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Mon 02 Feb 2009Warning of link between economic recession and increase in drug use
FAMILIES OF people with drug problems have warned of a “huge risk” that drug use will increase as the recession deepens.
The Family Support Network, which helps families of drug users, said there was a well-established link between economic recession and drug use. Its national co-ordinator, Sadie Grace, said Dublin had witnessed epidemic levels of heroin addiction in the 1980s and this had been attributed to the social deprivation and marginalisation experienced at the time.
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