MORE than 30 people with addiction issues lost their lives to suicide in the Tallaght area in the last 18 months, “frightening figures” that have prompted community drug projects representatives to call for funding to curb the “spiralling deaths”.
Community drug representatives met last Friday to discuss the number of lives lost locally to suicide, and to call for funding to be made available to support drug projects in addressing this devastating loss of life.
Speaking with The Echo, Labour Party councillor Mick Duff, who is the co-ordinator of the Community Drug Treatment Project in St Aengus, stressed that more than 30 people with addiction issues lost their lives in the past 18 months to suicide.
However, he noted that sadly these figures are incomplete as not all estates have yet been included – which will result in the numbers rising.
Source: Mary Dennehy, The Echo.ie, 26/07/17
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