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Ballymun Community Case Study: Experiences and Perceptions of Problem Drug Use

Title: Ballymun Community Case Study: Experiences and Perceptions of Problem Drug UsePages: 53 File size: 1.34 MB Author: Dr Hilda Loughran Dr Mary Ellen McCann Published: November 2006   Formats: Portable Document Format (PDF) To view PDF documents you will need to download Adobe Reader from the Adobe website.

Executive Summary

The goals of the study were to capture the experiences of communities of the drug problem since 1996 with a view to informing the development of a set of community indicators of a community drug problem. An innovative methodology of community participation in research was used, the lead researchers recruited local people as research assistants through community-based projects in the three communities under investigation: Ballymun, Bray and Crumlin.

• A Community Drugs Study: Developing Community Indicators for Problem Drug Use
• Ballymun Community Case Study: Experiences and Perceptions of Problem Drug Use
• Bray Community Case Study: Experiences and Perceptions of Problem Drug Use
• Crumlin Community Case Study: Experiences and Perceptions of Problem Drug Use

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