UN hits at Government over special heroin centres
The International Narcotics Control Board which polices UN conventions on illegal drugs wrote a strongly-worded letter to the Government expressing outrage at a report in the Irish Examiner in which the Minister of State with responsibility for the National Drugs Strategy, Noel Ahern, said he was looking at the issue.
"They were horrified that we were even thinking of going down the road of consumption rooms," said Mr Ahern yesterday. "They said we should not be even thinking of taking this direction. They said it was contrary to various UN conventions. They were very unhappy,"
