HSE gets €900k to cut treatment waiting lists for addicts

THE Government is providing €900,000 to the HSE to cut chronic treatment waiting lists for heroin addicts in many parts of the country.

Drugs Strategy Minister John Curran said he hoped to make significant progress in reducing waiting lists by the end of the year.

He told an Oireachtas committee he was “fast tracking” five to six areas which had long waiting lists for methadone treatment.