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Merchants Quay Ireland calls for Dublin injection centre after St Stephen’s Green incidents

An addiction charity has called for a supervised injection centre for Dublin after it emerged that park rangers dealt with almost 30 cases of people taking drugs in St Stephen’s Green in the first six months of the year.

Documents released to The Times under freedom of information laws show that park rangers logged 219 cases of antisocial behaviour in January to the end of June. These included 155 cases involving alcohol, 27 involving drugs, eight crimes, six cases of homeless people sleeping in the grounds and three cases of people having sex in the park.

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Source: Ben Haugh, The Times, 24th July 2019

Posted by drugs.ie on 07/25 at 10:58 AM in
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