Cheap new drugs causing crazed and violent behaviour are flooding our streets and causing major problems for frontline emergency workers, gardai told the Sunday Independent.
Gardai also believe international drug traffickers are using Ireland as a "testing ground" for new synthesised forms of deadly drugs before unleashing them on major European markets.
An analysis is currently being carried out on some of the new drugs, which are being sold as crack cocaine but which contain chemicals including methamphetamine - also known as 'crystal meth', the drug associated with the award-winning Breaking Bad TV series - and other, as yet, unidentified chemicals.
Senior garda sources said the new drugs are driving addicts into violent, uncontrollable rages. In one recent incident it took eight people, - four ambulance crew, two gardai and two male staff workers - at a drug treatment centre in Dublin to hold down one man who had taken one of the new drugs.
A garda source told the Sunday Independent: "There were eight of them on him and he still managed to lift one of them up."
The ambulance crew injected the man with a sedative, but it had little effect. They then had to seek permission from a medical supervision unit to inject the man with more, and far stronger, sedatives. He was eventually calmed and taken to hospital.
In another disturbing incident, a young woman had to be restrained by four gardai after she began sticking a syringe into her head in the middle of a street in south central Dublin.
Source: Jim Cusack, Irish Independent, 03/11/14
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