No treatment scheme for eating disorder sufferers

People with eating disorders are not entitled to the same funding for treatment programmes granted to those who suffer from addictions to drugs or alcohol, the HSE has said.

The revelation comes as a person with an eating disorder shared their battle to pay for treatment in a letter to the Irish Examiner.

The sufferer hits out at the State’s “discriminatory policy” towards people with eating disorders, after they hit “rock bottom” at Christmas and sought a residential recovery programme at a treatment centre.