Dr Patrick Troy’s three-paragraph letter in a recent issue of Irish Medical Times (‘Kinahan’s arrest caused drop in detection rates’, January 7, 2011, http://www.imt.ie/opinion/2011/01/kinahans-arrest-caused-drop-in-detection-rates.html) named an individual three times and identified him as being the almost sole supplier of heroin to the Irish market. He quotes statistics of urinalysis testing in drug clinics in support of his explanation of the current heroin shortage.
As I understand it, the individual was arrested recently in Spain. He has not been convicted of supplying heroin to the whole of Ireland.
There has been an unfortunate tendency for some medical personnel working in addiction to indulge in a sort of vicarious enjoyment of the more exciting forensic aspects of the drugs problem.
Source: Irish Medical Times, 21/01/2011
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