More young addicts using dangerous drugs cocktail

THERE has been a dramatic rise in the number of young people abusing a cocktail of alcohol, cocaine and cannabis.

Tabor Lodge, situated in Minane Bridge, Co Cork, treated 214 people last year for dependency, of which more than 120 were young people who were "poly substance abusers."

The centre's administrator, Mike Devine, said yesterday that more and more young people were showing up with such traits.