Increase in number of people injecting drug

A WORRYING trend has emerged in Cork’s growing heroin crisis following a surge in the number of people injecting the drug, a medical expert has warned.

Dr Declan O’Brien, the medical officer at Arbour House, the Health Service Executive’s Southern Regional Drug and Alcohol Addiction Treatment Service for Cork and Kerry, said this new trend increases the severe health risks already faced by heroin users.

With heroin deals available on the street for €50 a bag, heroin addicts are leading chaotic lives struggling to cope with what is in some cases an eight bag, or €400-a day habit.