Róisín Shortall, Minister of State with responsibility for Primary Care at the Department of Health, today (18th October 2011) spoke of the degree to which substance use by parents can disrupt family relationships. Speaking at the opening of a National Advisory Committee on Drugs seminar entitled A Family Affair? Supporting Children Living with Parental Substance Misuse the Minister said “In some cases the impact can persist right through to adulthood. Even more distressing”, she said “is the fact that impacts sometimes carry through into the lives on the following generation”.
Minister Shortall said that “the real challenge is to break this cycle. The fact that substance misuse in one generation can have impacts that cascade into the lives of those following, illustrates the level of importance that we must place on targeted measures aimed at breaking the cycle and safeguarding the next generation”.
Source: Department of Health, 18/10/2011
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