Drug-related deaths would fall and public injecting would decrease if consumption rooms were set up, two national groups have said.
Both the Ana Liffey Drug Project and Merchants Quay Ireland — which, between them, have services in Dublin, Midlands, and Mid West — have called for the establishment of medically supervised injecting rooms (MSICs).
The call comes in the run-up to International Overdose Awareness Day, this Sunday.
As reported in the Irish Examiner last May, Ireland has the third highest number of drug-related deaths in the EU, four times the average, at 70.5 deaths per million people.
“Far more people die from overdose every year than die on the roads, but each death is just as devastating to the children, families and friends of those who die,” said Tony Duffin, director of Ana Liffey.
Source: Cormac O'Keeffe, Irish Examiner, 29/08/14
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