Teen died from drugs in care unit weeks after mother admitted him

A teenage boy was found dead from drugs at a residential unit three weeks after his mother signed him into HSE care, an inquest heard. 

The 16-year-old was found dead at Focus Ireland’s Off the Streets residential unit in Dublin 7 on February 19 last year.

Dublin Coroner’s Court heard he was not a known drug user, but spent the day before taking tablets at his mother’s house nearby.