Warning ‘second wave’ of legal highs on the way

THE damage caused by head shop drugs is likely to get worse as a “second wave” looks set to hit the country, an emergency consultant has warned.

Una Geary, emergency consultant at St James’s Hospital in Dublin, said emergency departments were only seeing the “most extreme tip of the iceberg” in terms of the scale of the problem.

HSE colleague Eamon Keenan, consultant psychiatrist in substance misuse, said there seemed to be a “production line” of drugs waiting to come onto the market from Far East laboratories. He said the drugs will “keep coming” despite new legislation here.