Legal highs linked to referral of 20 youths to treatment centre

TWENTY young people have been referred to an adolescent treatment centre in Cork after using legal highs – including a 15-year-old boy addicted to the controversial compound mephedrone.

Legal highs linked to referral of 20 youths to treatment centre

The young people have all been referred to the Matt Talbot Adolescent Centre since March and, in addition to legal highs, have a range of problems including alcohol and illegal drug use.

According to the centre’s clinical manager, Edel Foley, 19 of the young people referred to the service were using mephedrone – which has already been banned in Britain but remains on sale in head shops here.

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