The manager of addiction services in the HSE South claims that widespread use of drug-testing kits would lull young people in to a false sense of security.
Health Minister Leo Varadkar has indicated that he is examining a proposal to allow drug users in clubs have their drugs tested for potentially lethal ingredients. The radical proposal is being looked at as part of a new national drugs strategy from 2017.
Under the plan, which would require a change in the law, drug users could have drugs legally tested for lethal ingredients in nightclub or at a festival. However, David Lane of the HSE South, who is an expert in addiction, says drug kits do not work.
“Just in terms of drug testing kits, my position on those are very clear in that they don’t work. From our point of view, people having these kind of testing kits that they buy online or purchase in other ways, these are not effective in testing what might be consumed.”
Source: Olivia Kelleher, Irish Examiner, 27/01/2016
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