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4,300 users seek help from drugs charity

Nearly 600 new heroin injectors presented themselves to one of the country’s largest drug and homeless charities last year.

Merchants Quay Ireland (MQI) said a total of 4,308 users sought help with them in 2010, up 5% on 2009. Some 575 of these were new injectors.

It said this rise coincided with one of the biggest droughts of heroin to hit the country from October on.

MQI chief executive Tony Geoghegan said: "The figures serve as a reminder that heroin use remains at very high levels and that significant numbers of new people are beginning to use heroin every year."

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Source: Cormac O’Keeffe, Irish Examiner, 30/09/2011

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