A leading drug specialist has called for the urgent expansion of GP methadone treatment services in order to tackle unnecessary drug deaths, labelling “our deadly indifference” a national scandal.
“Unnecessary deaths are taking place because of our collective indifference”, Dr Austin O’Carroll said as successive Ministers for Health, the ICGP, Medical Council, the media, society at large and in particular the medical profession all came under attack.
The Dublin inner-city GP said: “Doctors’ fear of drug users is rooted in their lack of experience with this group, and this actually adds to the stigmatising of this vulnerable group, which is badly in need of medical attention.
Source: Lloyd Mudiwa, Irish Medical Times, 03/05/2012
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