Thursday, 30 December 2010

Galway in grip of growing heroin crisis | Connacht Tribune | galwaynews.ie

Galway in grip of growing heroin crisis | Connacht Tribune | galwaynews.ie: "scale of Ireland’s heroin problem has been brought into sharp focus by a new pan-European report which concluded that seven in every 1,000 people in Ireland are heroin users.

And the report from the Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) warned: ‘drug problems have no age limits.’

One such self-confessed heroin addict in Galway is a 40 year old with three teenage children; slight and greying, he admits that over 20 years of drug and alcohol abuse have taken their toll.

It takes a few minutes to get started with the interview as his phone keeps ringing he mentions there is currently a “drought” in Galway and there is not much heroin available so everyone is on the “hunt”."

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