Drugs Minister Pat Carey has insisted the Government was "determined to deal" with the spread of heroin across the country.
Responding to a special report on heroin in yesterday’s Irish Examiner, he said the National Drugs Strategy aimed to address the problem.
Fine Gael said the spread of heroin was "a grave threat to communities throughout Ireland" and claimed warnings about the spread had been ignored.
Mr Carey said the rise in heroin addicts seeking treatment was a positive development. Figures supplied to the Irish Examiner showed the number of new treatment cases involving heroin had, on average, doubled outside greater Dublin between 2002 and 2008, and had trebled in some regions.
Source: Cormac O’Keeffe, The Irish Examiner, 27/10/2010
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