Government may set up ‘drug rooms’ for addicts

THE Government is considering providing supervised injection facilities for drug addicts to get heroin junkies off the streets.

Minister for Drugs Strategy Noel Ahern is going to Germany in the autumn to see how drug consumption rooms operate there, with a view to recommending their usage on an experimental basis here.

The possible liberalisation of the drugs regime in this manner would prove highly controversial, despite the furore over addicts shooting up unhindered on city centre streets in broad daylight.