Addiction treatment delays are deplorable

THERE seems to be a disconnect between your headline ‘Tracking system to monitor recovering drug users’ and the body of the story that documents the woeful inadequacy of treatment capacity in Ireland (July 10).

It is simply irrational to force those wanting to give up their illicit opiate habits to wait two years or more for treatment proven in Ireland and around the world to be enormously effective. Countries as divergent as Germany, Hong Kong, the US and, most recently, Iran and China have been able to achieve massive expansion of services almost from one year to the next.

The only prerequisite has been commitment.