Calls for drug consumption rooms

Drug-related deaths would fall and public injecting would decrease if consumption rooms were set up, two national groups have said.

Both the Ana Liffey Drug Project and Merchants Quay Ireland — which, between them, have services in Dublin, Midlands, and Mid West — have called for the establishment of medically supervised injecting rooms (MSICs).

The call comes in the run-up to International Overdose Awareness Day, this Sunday.