Drug unit: Ireland has high heroin death rate

Ireland has had one of the highest heroin-related death rates over the past decade, according to the Merchant's Quay drugs unit.

Ireland has had one of the highest heroin-related death rates over the past decade, according to the Merchant's Quay drugs unit.

The organisation says injecting users in Ireland have 20 to 30 times as much a chance of dying as others of the same age across Europe.

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