Expert nurses excluded from drugs policy committee invited to meet minister

Minister Frank Feighan, who has responsibility for the National Drugs Strategy. Picture. Keith Arkins Media

The minister with responsibility for the national drugs strategy has asked to meet with a group of nurses who are experts in addiction after they criticised their exclusion from a national committee overseeing drugs policy.

The Irish Examiner reported this morning how the Ireland Chapter of the International Nurses Society on Addiction (IntNSA) had been removed from the National Oversight Committee on Drugs, an expert group set up to help implement various priorities on the national drugs strategy.