Drugs may become the greatest blight on Ireland since the famine

Most people probably do not realise that tea and coffee are drugs, or that nicotine or alcohol are in themselves even more dangerous drugs.

Marijuana is certainly less habit-forming than alcohol or tobacco. There is a need for a proper and informed debate about legal and illegal drugs

THE cocaine problem was highlighted this week by the death of Kevin Doyle (21) in Waterford, where another young man remains critically ill, and this was followed by the still unexplained death of the model Katy French (24) who had earlier admitted to taking cocaine.