Gary Broderick

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Drug-taking equipment including syringes, needles and tourniquets at Merchants Quay Ireland’s needle exchange facility in Dublin. Photograph: Alan Betson
Covid-19 cutting drug users and recovering addicts off from key supports

Derek (35) had been “stable, off heroin” for the past five months and was to start a residential detoxification programme next week. “I’d been worki(...)

Part of the €37.5m cannabis haul seized at Dublin Port in 2017. Photograph: Cyril Byrne
From soapbar to skunk: the ever increasing strength of cannabis

According to a new Europe-wide study on cannabis potency, the drug is barely recognisable to what it was just a decade ago. If you used cannabis in I(...)

Gary Broderick, Director of the Saol Project, which helps women in dealing with addictions and with prison rehabilitation, pictured with After-Care worker Belinda Nugent, a former client of the project. Photograph: Dave Meehan/The Irish Times
In Dublin’s north inner city people do not choose to become addicts

You choose what you want to see. On the corner, a group of seven or eight young men congregate. Most are dressed in baggy shorts and T-shirts. Sharp(...)

Michaella McCollum Connolly (23) pictured in Peru talking to RTÉ. Photograph: Trevor Birney/RTÉ/ Press Eye.
RTÉ’s interview with Michaella McCollum deserves criticism

RTÉ has defended itself against strong criticism of an interview with drug smuggler Michaella McCollum that it broadcast on Sunday in a last-minute ch(...)