Fresh strategy for Cork heroin crisis

THE taskforce tackling the drug problem in Cork is drafting a new strategy to deal with the city’s growing heroin crisis.

It is the first time the Cork Local Drugs Task Force (CLDTF), which was established in 1997, has had to consider a completely separate strategy to deal specifically with heroin. It is due to meet within days to discuss the plan.

The move comes as a leading consultant warned he would not be surprised if 20 people die from drug overdoses this year in Cork.