Demand for action as city faces heroin epidemic

CORK is on the brink of a heroin epidemic after there were at least three suspected overdoses on the northside of the city in recent weeks.

Anti-drugs campaigner Cllr Jonathan O’Brien said there are signs the city is facing a heroin crisis similar to that which ravaged Dublin in the 1980s.

At least three men have died of suspected heroin overdoses in the Farranree and Knocknaheeny areas in recent weeks. “People may not be dying in the streets, but they are dying in people’s homes, in their front rooms, and in the bedrooms,” said Mr O’Brien.