The Island’s Chief Minister and Health Minister were attending the tenth British-Irish Council summit hosted by Ireland’s Taoiseach Bertie Ahern.
Senators Frank Walker and Ben Shenton used the opportunity to outline some of the projects that have been set up in Jersey to tackle both drug and alcohol abuse.
Since the start of the Millennium, Irish Customs officers have seized drugs with an estimated street value of around £230 million.
Drug abuse in Jersey is also a problem. Last year a prison expert said that Jersey’s failure to face up to its drug problem would destroy the wider community and fuel a ‘revolving door’ of prisoners.
