Drug addicts have 'opportunity for change' during lockdown
Wed, 06 May 2020
Those struggling with addiction have an ‘opportunity for change’ according to one charity, as lockdown continues to disrupt the Island’s drug trade.
Motiv8 believes current restrictions can provide users with a chance to ‘think about a new way of life’.
Last week, police revealed the illegal market is ‘drying up’, though seizures and subsequent arrests are being made as the trade utilises the postal and courier services.
However chief executive Thea Ozenturk, has expressed concerns for the health of those battling addiction, as the border closure remains in place for a seventh week.
The current shortage poses ‘a whole raft of implications and risks to people’ according to Mrs Ozenturk.
She says the immune systems of opiate users is usually ‘quite compromised’ and has urged them to take replacement therapy ‘as prescribed’.
Mrs Ozenturk spoke to Local Democracy Reporter Aaron Ibanez:
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