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Cocaine use in Ireland on the up due to lack of heroin

Posted on Wednesday, December 15, 2010 at 01:13 PM
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Ireland's drug treatment services have reported that cocaine use has risen due to a shortage of heroin.

Graham Ryall of the Rialto Community Drug Team, in Dublin, told the Irish Examiner newspaper that the price of heroin has jumped from €20 a bag to €50 a bag. Addicts are turning to cocaine, tranquillizers and anti-anxiety drugs to get high. They now face a higher risk of overdosing when supplies do return, as their tolerance levels will have dropped.

Emergency room doctor Chris Luke told RTE (Ireland national broadcaster) that he expects at least 500 people will die from taking cocaine in the next 10 years. He said that cocaine causes "electrical chaos" in the heart and "kills suddenly and unpredictably".

The shortage of heroin has been put down to a fungus that has blighted the poppy crop's in Afghanistan.


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longislander1940 | Dec 20, 2010, 11:55 AM EST
I think the Garda has to work hard and get this junk away from the people . It is ruining Ireland,

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Towngate | Dec 17, 2010, 03:16 PM EST
How will we ever face REALITY and get the country straight with all this mallarkey going on ...!?

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donnie80 | Dec 15, 2010, 04:57 PM EST
This is crazy insane. People will continue to get high at any costs.

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