North drug death prompts warning over multiple GP registrations

The North's Minister of Health is to be urged by a coroner to take action to ensure prescription drug addicts cannot get multiple scripts by registering with more than one GP.

Coroner Brian Sherrard expressed his concerns today about a system “full of deficiencies” at the inquest of a homeless man just out of prison who died from an overdose after managing to get drugs from three doctors in little more than a week.