A drug treatment centre in Dublin has seen an increase in the number of people that are using their services.
Coolmine Theraputic Community offers "a treatment and rehabilitation approach where clients live in small structured drug-free communities... to encourage psychological and lifestyle changes to enable people to maintain a drug-free existence".
The organisation has helped over 1,000 people beat their addiction and is also helping the families of addicts.
The CEO of the organisation Pauline McKeown talked to Pat Kenny today, and explained the group's work and the findings of their recent study:
Anne is a volunteer with Coolmine and a mother living with addiction.
She says a show like Love/Hate does not capture the experiences of the many people affected by someone's drug use:
