A ‘very long road’ to help drug users

Pat Herlihy is on edge any time his daughter steps out the door.

Even after three years on methadone.

“She’s had four or five ‘hiccups’. That’s par for the course, but it’s very hard. You think you’re nearly there, things are looking up and there’s a hiccup and you’re back again.”

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