Warning over cuts to drug clinics

TREATMENT services for heroin addicts face “assassination” under planned HSE cuts, specialist doctors have claimed.

Warning over cuts to drug clinics
Mon, 21 Feb, 2011 - 00:00
Cormac O’Keeffe

General Practitioners Specialising in Substance Abuse (GPSSA) said the HSE has already closed some clinics in Dublin dispensing methadone, the legal substitute for heroin.

The negotiating body said the HSE wants to amalgamate more services and end evening clinics in Dublin.

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