Government ‘determined to deal with spread of heroin’

DRUGS MINISTER Pat Carey has insisted the Government was “determined to deal” with the spread of heroin across the country.

Responding to a special report on heroin in yesterday’s Irish Examiner, he said the National Drugs Strategy aimed to address the problem.

Fine Gael said the spread of heroin was “a grave threat to communities throughout Ireland” and claimed warnings about the spread had been ignored.