Shift in political attitudes sees drug reform leave the fringes

Less than a year ago, the thought that both the drugs strategy minister and an Oireachtas committee would be calling for the effective decriminalisation of drug use was inconceivable, writes Cormac O’Keeffe

So too, was any possibility we might set up a facility where heroin addicts could go and legally inject.

The latter is, apparently, on the brink of getting the green light by the Government, with the first supervised injecting room coming on stream next year.