Ana Liffey Drug Project
Dublin, Ireland
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Founded in 1982, Ana Liffey Drug Project is a charity based in Dublin, Ireland working on addiction, health, human rights.
The Ana Liffey Drug Project is a national addiction service in Ireland, founded in 1982 in North Inner City Dublin. It provides low threshold harm reduction services to people experiencing problem substance use and their families, with direct services in the Dublin, Mid West and North East regions. Services include a Needle and Syringe Programme, assertive outreach, community detoxification support, and support for people affected by drug-related intimidation. The organisation also advocates for drug policy reform, including a harm reducing and rehabilitative approach to personal possession of drugs, and runs civil society participation projects internationally. It supports organisations working with people affected by substance use and is a registered charity and company limited by guarantee governed by a Board of Management.
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National Community Detox Initiative
Addiction · Ireland
Supports people to reduce or stop methadone or benzodiazepine use through a structured non-residential community detoxification process with psychosocial and medical support.
Needle & Syringe Programme
Health · Ireland
Provides sterile injecting equipment and safer drug use advice to people who inject or smoke drugs, delivered through outreach and open access services.
Assertive Outreach
Addiction · Ireland
Street and community-based outreach offering advice, advocacy, referrals and brief interventions to people who do not access centre-based services.
Drug-Related Intimidation Initiative
Community development · Ireland
Provides free, confidential support to individuals and families in Dublin's North East Inner City affected by drug-related intimidation.
Poole Volunteer Programme
Community development · Ireland
Volunteer programme supporting the delivery of the organisation's services.
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HSE, Local and Regional Drugs Task Forces, Probation Service, Dublin City Council, European Commission, Open Society Foundations, London School of Economics, North Inner City Drugs and Alcohol Task Force
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