Heroin epidemic gripping Ireland, say youth groups
The Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children were told by Spunout and the Aislinn Adolescent Addiction Centre that alcohol was both a gateway and relapse drug and that issues such as the availability of alcohol and its below-cost selling needed to be tackled as a matter of urgency.
Both groups also told the committee they had suffered funding cutbacks and were struggling to maintain services.
