In this live podcast episode host Liam MacGabhann is joined by Community Development worker Triona Byrne, Psychologists, Dr Sharon Lambert and Dr Katriona O’Sullivan. The panel discuss Dublin’s North East Inner city as an area of high deprivation that has experienced individual and collective trauma over the years. We talk about the social determinants of health such as poverty and its impact on mental health and substance use and people’s access or lack thereof to social and recovery capital. Ending the discussion with an exploration into how Dublin’s north east inner city with its powerful sense of community can collectively response to the issue of Dual Diagnosis(Co-existing issues with mental health and substance use).

Special thanks to the audience who engaged in the live Q&A which brought thought provoking questions to the members of the panel.

This podcast was recorded in D-Light Studios in Dublin 1 at the launch of the NEIC Dual diagnosis “Building a Community of Recovery” integrated services map and the associated Interactive Dual Diagnosis Community Care Pathway resource. This project was in collaboration with the 

More details on the NEIC Dual Diagnosis capacity building project and access to the resources can be found at https://recoverycollege.ie/capacity-building-a-community-response-to-dual-diagnosis-in-north-east-inner-city-dublin/

Intro and closing music; Kilimanjaro by Hidden Treehouse, a Recovery College collaboration