An Interview with an Evening Service participant: 

“I tell my mates straight first off about the massage and how there is an Acustim and acupuncture treatment which is great, and I tell them about the counselling as well.  And, like, when they hear about the massage and acupuncture you can tell it spikes an interest in them so even though I don’t think they would come right now, no, I don’t think they feel they need to come right now, but should they reach a stage where they want to get help, well, then they know what it is, where it is, and they know it’s really helped me."
 

Interview with an Afternoon Programme participant:

“The way I look at it it’s a two way thing; it’s a pleasure to give you some feedback cos I've got so much out of here. I was saying to you that you’re dealing with very fragile people. It is probably very hard for people to come out here and trust someone, ‘cos if someone’s been addicted to something or whatever then they’ve probably been used to mixing in circles where maybe they didn’t trust other people. When I say about people being fragile I mean you’re dealing with people whose confidence has probably gone right down into the gutter, so it’s huge for someone to come out here and learn to trust and to actually to believe that someone is here to help you and there is no ulterior motive or you’re not going to be judged and that you don’t need to worry that if you let people in too much or it’ll be used against you in some way. You’re leaving yourself very vulnerable and that's a big step to take when you be coming from that place.

An interview with a Day Programme participant: 

How long have you been here?
“I’ve been here now for exactly two years and five months.”

What’s it like?
“Well…. it’s like, for me, personally, it’s what I make of it. DROP is whatever I want to make of it. The support that is provided is, I think, very, very good, but now if you are coming in with the attitude of “I don’t want this to work for me and I’m going to rebel against everything” then it is not going to work so well.

An interview with an ex-Day Programme Participant:

 “Even people who have been in rehabilitation - even residential - can slip again, but it doesn’t mean that what they’ve learnt has gone to waste.
I’m only starting to benefit from the things that I learnt here now.
I was going to NA for a good while but… well, I don’t know what it was, but I attracted the wrong people and all the conversations I got into were about using. But my wife now goes to a support group for people whose family members are using drugs, down in the Boghall Road in Bray. And she’d say to me that she’s learning about trigger points and places to stay away from. It’s all the stuff that I learnt here, and it makes her aware of it. So that helps. Like, if was going out to call on someone risky she’d say, “Do you think that’s a good idea?”
You can never use again with a smile on your face when you know you’re doing wrong.”