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Reducing Harm, Supporting Recovery – a health led response to drug and alcohol use in Ireland 2017-2025

Reducing Harm, Supporting Recovery – a health led response to drug and alcohol use in Ireland 2017-2025

Reducing Harm, Supporting Recovery lays out the direction of government policy on drug and alcohol use until 2025 in Ireland. The new strategy aims to provide an integrated public health approach to drug and alcohol use, focused on promoting healthier lifestyles within society. The strategy contains an ambitious 50 point Action Plan from 2017 to 2020, and provides the scope to develop further actions between 2021 and 2025 to ensure the continued relevance of the strategy to emerging needs into the future. The vision of the strategy is to create a healthier and safer Ireland, and its actions will contribute towards improving the health, wellbeing and safety of the population of Ireland in the coming years.

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