The heroin problem in Limerick city is getting worse, a City Councillor has told thejournal.ie, as city residents expressed their fury over an incident in which a 9 year old girl came in contact with a used heroin syringe.
Holly Sheehy, a 9 year old girl from Nun’s Island in the city centre, was playing in a laneway near her home when she fell into a rubbish heap that contained a heroin needle. Her fingertip touched the needle, which doctors confirmed contained heroin.
“There is a sense that things are getting worse” Cllr Maurice Quinlivan, a Sinn Féin representative, said. “There is open drug dealing and taking on our streets and the problem is not going to go away until the government commits to doing something about it. We don’t even have a detoxification centre in the city but were promised one last year” he said.
Source: thejournal.ie, 14/07/2012
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