Man’s organs started dying after he took headshop drug

A man’s internal organs started dying after he took headshop drug mephe-drone, an inquest has heard.

Anthony Leonard, 41, from Willow Vale in Ballybrack, Co Dublin, died from multi-organ failure at St Vincent’s Hospital on July 14 last year.

Dublin Coroner’s Court heard doctors were told he had taken five sachets of Silver Bubbles — or mephedrone, a headshop-type drug that acts similarly to amphetamine — when he presented at St Columcille’s Hospital, Loughlinstown, on the day before his death.