A drugs taskforce met in Cork yesterday to discuss how best to tackle the city’s growing heroin crisis which saw a little boy jabbed by an addict’s needle he found discarded in his school yard.

A robust multi-agency crackdown has been demanded by a city councillor who witnessed heroin being sold openly in daytime in a busy public park in Cork.

IT’S the bridge for people to the drug and alcohol support services they need. But with its focus on prevention, it also offers education, support and alternatives to teenagers.

HEROIN is a seriously dangerous drug and that’s what makes the rising tide of addiction in Cork so alarming. The worsening scenario underlines the importance of fresh moves by a local taskforce, set up in the late 1990s, to draw up a pilot strategy aimed at dealing with the city’s growing crisis.