In-depth training for staff at cocaine treatment clinics

HEALTH Service Executive workers who will staff Ireland’s first cocaine treatment clinics in Dublin and Cork are to be given intensive training in the best intervention methods at Waterford Institute of Technology.

The staff will be taught medical, psychological, psychiatric and counselling interventions in courses to be held over the summer.

The clinics will be set up before the end of the year and are in addition to the drop-in centre for recreational cocaine users in Galway which was set up almost a month ago.