Citizens’ Assembly in ‘humbling and eye-opening’ visit to drug treatment centres

Citizens’ Assembly on Drugs Use chairman Paul Reid, left, met with service user Rebecca Burke and her daughter Sofia, centre, together with Coolmine chief executive Pauline McKeown (Maxwell’s/PA)

The Citizens’ Assembly on Drugs Use has visited drug treatment centres in Coolmine in Blanchardstown and Merchants Quay Ireland to learn more about the “lived experience of drugs use”.

Members had the opportunity to meet and talk with staff and service users.