Coroner echoes sister's plea for improved education on drugs at Alex Ryan inquest

A more structured approach to educating young people about drugs involving set programmes in schools needs to be introduced, a coroner urged yesterday at the inquest of an 18-year-old boy who died after he took the drug known as N Bomb, writes Olivia Kelleher.

Alex Ryan, of Liscahane in Millstreet, Co Cork, died on January 23, 2016, after consuming a synthetic drug of the 2C family called 251 NBOMe, or NBomb.