African gangs flooding Cork with cheap heroin

A HOSPITAL consultant warned yesterday of a worrying increase in heroin addiction in Cork in the past two weeks.

West African gangs, it was claimed, are flooding the city with cheap drugs.Dr Chris Luke, a consultant in emergency medicine at the Mercy and Cork University Hospital, said within the past two weeks he treated 12 people for opiate abuse, such as heroin and methadone.

“This is an extraordinary number for Cork. Up to recently you might see one or two people a month, which was even a dramatic increase on what you’d have seen five years ago.” he said.