Drug task forces still run by part-timers

THE Government has still not appointed any full-time co-ordinators for the ten regional drug task forces - more than three years after the bodies were set up.

The regional drug task forces (RDTFs) are being run by part-time co-ordinators, many of whom have other full-time jobs in health boards.

And while asked in 2001 to draw up strategies for their areas, it also emerged the regional bodies are only at the early stages of devising plans three years later.