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SpunOut
SpunOut is an independent, youth powered national charity working to empower young people to create personal and social change.
Department of Health - Drugs Policy Unit
The overall objective of the Drugs Policy Unit is to oversee implementation of the National Drugs Strategy to tackle the harm caused to individuals, families and communities by problem drug use and alcohol use in Ireland through the five pillars of supply reduction, prevention, treatment, rehabilitation & research.
Department of Health - Drugs Programmes Unit
Drugs Programmes Unit of the Department of Health
National Advisory Committee on Drugs
Assists in the continued need to improve knowledge and understanding of problem drug use.
Health Research Board
The Health Research Board is the lead agency in Ireland supporting and funding health research.
The National Documentation Centre on Drug Use
The NDC is a unique information resource for researchers, policy makers, and people working in the areas of drug or alcohol use and addiction, or related fields.
CityWide
CityWide works to promote and support a community development approach to the drugs problem.
Quality Standards Support Project
ALDP mission statement is to work with people affected by problem substance use and the organisations that assist them. We do this to reduce harm to individuals and society, and to provide opportunities for development of those individuals and organisations.
Supported by the HSE and the NICDTF as part of action 45 of the National Drug Strategy 2009-2016, the aim of the ALDP Quality Standards Support Project (QSSP) is to develop and promote quality standards for addiction services; and to support organisations in implementing quality standards in their own services. The project is supported by one full-time project worker and a steering committee, whose membership is made up of representatives from ALDP, North Inner City Drug and Alcohol Task Force, HSE National Social Inclusion Office, HSE DML Addiction Service and Dublin Region Homeless Executive.
Among the resources and supports offered by the QSSP are
QuADS Organisational Standards Manual
Quality Champions Training, the aim of which is to provide key persons in organisations with the skills to become a quality champion in their service.
Policy Template Library
Links to useful resources
Videos on topics relating to quality standards
FAQs
All resources and supports can be found on the QSSP online space at www.drugs.ie/quality.
For further information on the Quality Standards Support Project, please email Nicola.corrigan@aldp.ie or call 01 960 3004
Community Detoxification Initiative
ALDP mission statement is to work with people affected by problem substance use and the organisations that assist them. We do this to reduce harm to individuals and society, and to provide opportunities for development of those individuals and organisations.
Community Detoxification supports service users to reduce or stop their use of opioids or benzodiazepines through an organized process involving key workers and prescribing doctors within their community. It can be accessed as an alternative option to in-patient residential detoxification, or as a necessary step toward meeting entry requirements for residential treatment.
The Community Detox Initiative is supported by the Community Detox National Representative and overseen by an expert steering committee who are leaders in addiction services from medical, community/voluntary and research fields.
A short video guide for service users thinking about a community detox and the community detox protocols are available on the Community Detox Initiative online space at http://www.drugs.ie/resources/community_detox/
For further information on community detox, please email Nicki Killeen (Community Detoxification National Representative) on nicki.killeen@aldp.ie or call 01 9603010 / 086 1091683
Alcohol Action Ireland
Providing information on alcohol-related issues, creating awareness of alcohol-related harm and offering potential policy solutions for reducing that harm.
