Drug dealers calling in €30k drug debts from Cork families

Drug dealers are targeting families to call in €30k drug debts 'owed' by their children while the Covid-19 crisis impacts trade.Addiction therapist Michael Guerin of Cuan Mhuire rehabilitation centre said that calls from concerned parents whose children owe tens of thousands of euros to drug dealers have increased in recent weeks while trade in cocaine, anecdotally, has fallen.

"None of these people were calling to say that their children owed €500. They owed big money. Tens of thousands of euros," he said.