Drugs and Ireland - Government response is shameful

THERE ARE few tragedies that so graphically, so starkly, so very everyday and heartbreaking, that illustrate our society’s catalogue of despair and failure than our growing drugs crisis.

Most of our failures, our indifference to our fellow man, our greed, our cold-heartedness and weaknesses, and our nihilism can be seen at this sorry and increasingly crowded crossroads.

It is where we are seen most savagely for what we have become: an economy to be exploited rather than a society on which its weakest members can rely.