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Naloxone Insights – sharing stories of saving people who have overdosed.
August 30, 2021
To mark International Overdose Awareness Day 31st August 2021 we have gathered together insights of administering Naloxone from staff and service users of Ana Liffey Drug Project.
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Ana Liffey Drug Project to unveil City Centre mural celebrating lifesaving drug “Naloxone”
August 30, 2021
To mark International Overdose Awareness Day 2021, Ana Liffey Drug Project will unveil a prominent mural in Limerick City Centre which draws attention to the drug Naloxone – a prescription medication which can reverse a heroin overdose. Ana Liffey’s Team Leader Rachel O’Donoghue said:
“Our team work hard to get Naloxone into the hands of people who can save lives if they come across an overdose. In the Midwest, people who use drugs and their family members are often the first responders to an overdose. Many are trained to respond to overdose and save lives. We want to celebrate them. We also want to say thank you to Paul and the team at Canteen for partnering with us to display this wonderful mural on their building.”
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November 2000: An overview of the development of peer support training in Ana Liffey Drug Project
August 18, 2021
“…ONE STEP AHEAD OF WHERE I WAS” – An overview of the development of peer support training in Ana Liffey Drug Project; is available here, online, for the first time.
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30th April 1990: Report from a Public Discussion Forum on Drug Treatment Policies organised by Ana Liffey Drug Project in Trinity College
August 15, 2021
“In April the Project organised a Public Discussion Forum on Drug Treatment Policies in Trinity College which was attended by over 150 persons from the social, medical and legal services. The guest speaker was Dr. Judy Greenwood, consultant psychiatrist at the Community Drug Problem Service, Royal Edinburgh Hospital. Greenwood’s contribution focused on the importance of harm minimisation techniques in responding to problem drug use and HIV in the community (her views had earlier that day been given a wider airing with an interview on the Pat Kenny Show). Two speakers responded to Dr. Greenwood- Shane Butler, Director of the Addiction Studies course in Trinity College, and Dr. Fergus O’Kelly, chairperson of the AIDS subcommittee of the Royal College of General Practitioners. Both speakers discussed Dr. Greenwood’s contribution in the context of what were very clear similarities between the drugs and HIV situation in Edinburgh and Dublin. The response of the audience at the meeting was very enthusiastic and encouraging and generally the view was that it was a very successful forum.”
Excerpt from a Special Report– published in June 1990 by Ana Liffey Drug Project and covering the period June 1989 to May 1990.
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Ana Liffey Drug Project publishes its Strategic Goals for 2021 & 2022
July 6, 2021
Eddie Matthews Chair of the Board of Ana Liffey Drug Project said:
“The challenge when writing a strategic plan is explaining something quite complicated in simple concise terms. We wanted people to be able to read this quickly and say to themselves – I understand who Ana Liffey are, what they do and what they are trying to achieve over the period of this strategic plan. Naturally, we consulted with our stakeholders with regard to the latter; and we hope you agree that we have kept this strategic plan simple and focused on what matters. We will be focusing on maintaining and developing our front-line services – as always, we plan to do this in collaboration with the people who use our services, the State and our NGO partners. We will work hard to support the State to deliver on the commitments within the National Drug Strategy ‘Reducing Harm – Supporting Recovery’. Finally, we will celebrate Ana Liffey’s 40th anniversary year, 2022, with the aim of not only being the first ‘Low Threshold – Harm Reduction’ service in Ireland, but the best we can possibly be.”
Please take the time to read our eight organisational strategic goals for 2021 & 2022 here.