Drugs crisis: Deprived areas have 13 times the addiction treatment rates of affluent areas

Report compiled by the Health Research Board and Pobal says the findings provide evidence for aligning funding with deprivation. Picture: Natalia Shabasheva/iStock

Addiction treatment rates are 13 times higher in the country's most disadvantaged areas than the most affluent.

New research shows it rises to 41 times higher for heroin and crack cocaine.