Warning of 12 deaths from heroin overdoses

AT LEAST 12 people will die from heroin overdoses in Cork this year, a leading hospital consultant has warned.

“I was seeing one or two heroin cases a year in the early years of this decade,” said Dr Chris Luke, a consultant in Emergency Medicine at Cork University Hospital (CUH) and the Mercy University Hospital (MUH).

“In the last nine months, I have seen a heroin case almost every day. That’s a shocking change.