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48 Middle Abbey Street, Dublin 1
Email: info@aldp.ie
Tel: 01 878 6899
Fax: 01 878 6828

OPENING HOURS:

Open: Monday to Friday
10.00am to 5.00pm
Closed: Wednesday afternoon

"Dealing with drugs is partly about dealing with drugs direct, plain and simple, and it is about limiting access. It is also a matter of dealing with much else besides drugs. It must be about our choice of value systems, the wide world outside the window, the quality of the world seen with the inner eye, and what life can offer that is as good as, or better than, intoxication."
(Griffith Edwards, Matters of Substance p277)

Welcome

The Ana Liffey Drug Project is a ‘Low Threshold - Harm Reduction’ service based in North Inner City Dublin. The project works with people, experiencing addiction, to minimise the harm that problematic drug use causes them, their families and the wider community. Do you have a question regarding problematic drug use? Then click the live.helper button to the right of this page.

Background

"During the early-1980s, drug policy and service provision in Dublin struggled to adapt to what became known as the 'opiate epidemic', the first wave of injecting heroin use in a city previously accustomed to much less risky drug use. This adaptation was not helped by the lack of formal drug policy-making structures or by the assumption that the only legitimate health and social service interventions were those which had abstinence as their goal. It was against this background that Frank Brady S.J. and Mara de Lacy set up the Ana Liffey Drug Project in 1982, a project which introduced the concepts of 'user friendliness', 'low threshold', 'outreach' and 'peer education' work." (Dr Shane Butler, Addiction Research Centre, Trinity College Dublin)